4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1157

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1157 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0081149004
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 4/18/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Masters of the World 07/61 Adapted from the 1961 movie "Master of the World."




Painted Cover: Artist unknown
Script: Jules Verne (original stories); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
Pencils & Inks: Jack Sparling

This is the second best issue of five graded to date. A single 9.8 tops the census. 04/13. . I bought this comic graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 0. Master Of The World
2. 1. Master of the World
3. 2. Master Of The World
4. 3. Jules Verne, Author Extraordinary
5. 4. They Ruled Their World This is a single page feature on the back cover of some issues.
6. 5. Win a "Diamond Hunting" Trip and a $500 bond
Daisy Manufacturing Co. This is the AD back version and is also the back cover of this copy.

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There is a bit of additional information about the original movie provided on Wikipedia, reproduced below:

Master of the World is a 1961 science fiction film based upon the Jules Verne novels Robur the Conqueror and its sequel, Master of the World. The movie stars Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, and Henry Hull, was written by Richard Matheson, and directed by William Witney.

Plot synopsis
Captain Robur (Price), shoots down and takes on board his flying ship Prudent (Hull), his daughter Dorothy (Webster), her fiance Evans (Frankham), all of whom were exploring a volcanic crater in their hot air balloon, along with US government agent Strock (Bronson), who had hired them to investigate evidence of an eruption. The eruption was Robur working on his airship, who had also inadvertently broadcast a biblical passage over a voice amplifier, stirring religious fears among the citizenry of the nearby town. Robur has been traversing the globe in his ship, the Albatross, with a goal of forcing peace on the world by virtue of his superior military position. He has a loyal crew of like minded idealists. The captives learn how his ship operates, and his technical advances, including generation of electrical power by crossing "lines of magnetic force". The captives wish to escape, but don't fully trust Strock, who appears at times to side with the Captain. After saving Evans' life, Strock explains that his oath of loyalty to the Captain was insincere, and that as a captive he feels no compunction to behave as a gentleman. The captives manage to rig the armory to explode, while the ship is tethered to the shoreline. All escape down the tether except Strock, who follows while being shot at by the crew. First Strock, then Evans, work at cutting the tether, finally releasing the airship, which cannot navigate due to prior damage, and which is unsalvageable after the explosion. Robur orders his crew to abandon ship, but they choose to ignore his final order, and gather in his captains quarters while he reads from Isaiah 2:4 ("Swords into Plowshares"), reminding them of their pledge to try to rid the world of war. The ship crashes into the ocean, along with Robur and crew, while the captives watch, injured but alive, from the shore.
[edit] Production
The film was an attempt by American International Pictures to create a prestigious epic adventure along the lines of 1956's Around the World in 80 Days. While it boasted a larger cast and more location work than was then the norm for AIP, it still utilised stock footage, including the opening miniature shot of Elizabethan London from Laurence Olivier's Henry V as a stand-in for Victorian London, with the skyship Albatross superimposed over the top. Additional scenes of the Albatross destroying both sides in a naval engagement are created in the same manner, with stock footage borrowed from model shoots of Napoleonic sea battles.
The script combined elements of both Jules Verne's novels, Master of the World, and Robur the Conqueror. Robur, genius, inventor and in this instance, creator of powered heavier than air craft Albatross, with his hand picked crew chooses to use weapons of war to force the governments of the world to lay down their arms and live in peace.
The special effects crew included Wah Chang and Gene Warren.
[edit] Cast
• Vincent Price as Robur
• Charles Bronson as John Strock
• Henry Hull as Prudent
• Mary Webster as Dorothy Prudent
• David Frankham as Philip Evans
• Richard Harrison as Alistair The Helmsman
• Vito Scotti as Topage (airship chef)
• Wally Campo as First Mate Turner
• Ken Terrell as Crewman Shanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_World_(1961_film)
 
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