Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 709
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Issue #709
$30.50
View scan- Centerfold detached at one staple. 1" spine split.
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Indicia title is "THE SEARCHERS, No. 709." Photo cover of Ethan Edwards (as played by John Wayne). Intro with photos from the movie, plus a partial cast list. The Searchers, pencils by Mike Roy, inks by Mike Peppe; Three years after the Civil War, Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards' homecoming at his brother's Texas ranch is ruined by a Comanche raid; His brother and his wife and son are killed and his young nieces are kidnapped by the Comanches; Edwards and Marty, a young man his brother raised, go on a multi-year search to find them. This adaptation of the 1956 movie "The Searchers" is fairly faithful to the movie, though an early movie reference to Edwards possessing money from a railway robbery is omitted, as is the classic closing scene. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
