4Gemworks Twighlight Zone Comic Book Emporium
Four Color 1173

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1173 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 1073257001
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4Gemworks Twighlight Zone Comic Book Emporium
Date Added: 8/2/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Twilight Zone (#1) 3-5/61 Based on "The Twilight Zone" TV series.

Painted cover with photo: Rod Serling (photo)
Script: Leo Dorfman and Rod Serling
Pencils: Reed Crandall and George Evans
Inks: Reed Crandall ; George Evans
Letters: Ben Oda

This is the third best of 19 copies graded to date. Two issues are tied on top at 9.4. 05/13. I bought this graded, as is, via Comic Link.

Table of Contents
1. 0. [The Phantom Lighthouse]
The Twilight Zone
2. 1. [There is a Fifth Dimension...]
The Twilight Zone
3. 2. Specter of Youth
The Twilight Zone
4. 3. The Phantom Lighthouse
The Twilight Zone
5. 4. Doom By Prediction
The Twilight Zone
6. 5. Journeys in the Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone This is a single page alternate back cover on the back of some copies of the issue.
7. 6. Travelers in the Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone
8. 7. Junior Sales Club AD on back. Also the back cover of this copy.


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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
http://www.comics.org/issue/16579/

This was without a doubt on of my favorite series on TV growing up, even though it was already in reruns when I first saw in the mid 1960’s. I still catch reruns to this day. Wikipedia provides some brief introductory material to the show that spawned this comic book:
The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction[1]/fantasy[2] anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consists of unrelated stories depicting paranormal, futuristic, kafkaesque, or otherwise disturbing or unusual events; each story typically features some sort of plot twist and a moral.
The series is notable for featuring both established stars (Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Buster Keaton, Burgess Meredith, Ed Wynn) and younger actors who became famous later on (Veronica Cartwright, Bill Bixby, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Duvall, Mariette Hartley, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Robert Redford). Rod Serling served as executive producer and head writer; he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the show's 156 episodes. He was also the show's host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning and end of each episode. Serling's opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episode's events encapsulating how and why the main character(s) had entered the Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone itself is not presented as being a tangible plane, but a metaphor for the strange circumstances befalling the protagonists.[citation needed]
In 1997, the episodes "To Serve Man" and "It's a Good Life" were respectively ranked at 11 and 31 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time;[3] Serling himself stated that his favorite episodes of the series were "The Invaders" and "Time Enough at Last". [4] In 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No. 26 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)
 
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