Cheyenne #11

(May-July 1959)

The Rio Smugglers (Table of Contents: 1)

Bronco Layne / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Leo Dorfman

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Job Number

Cheyenne #11-595

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Billy Bob (Duke Rhein thug); Bronco Layne; Duke Rhein (cattle owner); Flowers (Duke Rhein thug); Ike Thompson (land owner, Jim O'Neil's neighbor); Jim O'Neil (friend of Bronco Layne, unjustly incarcerated); Judge Roy McHenry; Lonzo (Jim O'Neil's ranch hand); Mary O'Neil (Jim O'Neil's wife); Suzy O'Neil (Jim O'Neil's daughter); Sheriff of Trinity

Synopsis

Bronco Layne goes to the town of Trinity to help his friend Jim O'Neil who is about to be hanged for the murder of Colly Smith. Layne investigates Duke Rhein, a cattle owner, and finds out that he and his thugs are smuggling opium across O'Neil's ford in the Rio Grande river by packing it inside hollowed out cattle horns. Duke had also killed the ranger who knew too much and framed O'Neil. Bronco tries to stop O'Neil's execution but finds out that Jim's wife and daughter are held hostage. When he finally finds them, O'Neil can then say what he knows and the guilty are brought to justice.

Indexer Notes

Script credit per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2018/09/some-leo-dorfman-tv-westerns.html

Avalanche Trap (Table of Contents: 2)

Sheriff Myles Reilly / text story / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Scrag Mabry (outlaw); Sheriff Myles Reilly (sheriff of Lodestar)

Synopsis

Scrag Mabry, a bank robber and killer, prepares an avalanche for Sheriff Reilly who has been doggedly hunting him down and is now riding his horse on a rim trail. The sheriff however sees the sun flash from a rifle barrel and so narrowly manages to escape. A second avalanche triggered by the first one crashes down upon Scrag Mabry and the sheriff rides home. (Contains an illo of man on a horse on a rim trail with an avalanche heading toward him.)

Reprints

• in Tenderfoot Annual (World Distributors, 1960 series) #1960

Indexer Notes

No credits.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Small Bear / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Rex Maxon

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Rex Maxon

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I have interrupted him at his kill!

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Long Lance (Cheyenne Chief); Small Bear (Cheyenne warrior)

Synopsis

Small Bear wounds and is wounded by a mountain lion. The animal, not able to hunt, later attacks the Cheyenne tribe and it's horses convincing them that it is a "spirit cat". Small Bear feels responsible and still recovering from his wounds and against the Chief's orders, for the sake of his tribe and his honor, hunts the animal by himself. He slays it with his spear lodged between rocks and then everyone congratulates him.

Keywords

Cheyenne

Indexer Notes

No credits. Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).

The Crooked Circle (Table of Contents: 4)

Bronco Layne / comic story / 12.67 pages (report information)

Script

Leo Dorfman

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Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Bronco Layne; Chief Eskimizin (Arivaipa Chief); Colonel Burton; Forrest (deserter); Sergeant Flint (corrupt Fort Grant officer); 'Silver Dollar' Drew (Tucson Ring ringleader); the Tucson Ring (gang of thugs, includes Barney and MacRoy)

Synopsis

In the Arizona territory, Bronco Layne comes across a cavalryman shot dead. At Fort Grant, Colonel Burton tells him he suspects of someone in his fort working for the crooked Tucson Ring who is paying soldiers to desert and is selling worthless supplies to the army. The murdered soldier was a deserter who had changed his mind and was thus finished off with the complicity of the treasonous Sergeant Flint. So Bronco then decides to infiltrate the gang, but is revealed by Sergeant Flint. Bronco manages to narrowly escape and then lays a trap of his own for the criminals to fall into.

Indexer Notes

Script credit per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2018/09/some-leo-dorfman-tv-westerns.html

Page 13 is 2/3 of a page.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

Helen Meyer

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of ownership, management and circulation. Subscribed by Helen Meyer (business manager) on September 18, 1958 before John C. Weber (notary public).

"Fresh Up" Freddie Says: "Right Now, You're Probably Asking Yourself - What Does A Dynamite Loader Drink To Quench His Thirst?" (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

"Fresh up" Freddie; 7-Up / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)