4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1309

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Comic Description: Four Color #1309 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0800917003
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

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Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 1/26/2010
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

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87th Precint (#1) 4-6/62 Based on the "87th Precinct" TV series.

Photo Cover: Bert Kling (photo of Ron Harper); Steve Corella (photo of Robert Lansing); Roger Havilland (photo of Gregory Walcott); Meyer Meyer (photo of Norman Fell)
Pencils & Inks: Bernie Krigstein

Table of Contents
1. 0. [no title indexed]
87th Precinct
2. 1. The Language of the Deafmute
3. 2. Blind Man's Bluff...
87th Precinct
4. 3. What is Sight? What is Seeing?
5. 4. [Mental Powers

Back cover has a cartoon strip. I am unaware eas to whether a AD back version of his issue number exists.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/17351/

Wikipedia provides additional info on this once very popular TV show:

The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain. McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions.

Setting[edit]
The series is based on the work of the police detectives of the 87th Precinct in Isola, a district of a large fictional city based on the New York City borough of Manhattan. Other districts in McBain's fictionalized version of Manhattan correspond to NYC's other four boroughs, Calm's Point standing in for Brooklyn, Majesta representing Queens, Riverhead substituting for the Bronx, and Bethtown for Staten Island.
Relation to Dragnet[edit]
Each novel begins with the same disclaimer:
"The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique."
In interviews and articles, McBain has freely admitted that his series was heavily influenced by the radio and TV series Dragnet. This introduction, simultaneously evoking and contradicting Dragnet's introductory phrase, "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent," was apparently McBain's way of acknowledging the debt, yet announcing his intention to go his own way in every book.
Ed McBain on writing an 87th Precinct novel[edit]
"I usually start with a corpse. I then ask myself how the corpse got to be that way and I try to find out—just as the cops would. I plot, loosely, usually a chapter or two ahead, going back to make sure that everything fits—all the clues are in the right places, all the bodies are accounted for...(I) believe strongly in the long arm of coincidence because I know cops well, I know how much it contributes to the solving of real police cases."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/87th_Precinct
 
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