Red Ryder Comics #52

(November 1947)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Red Ryder Ranch Pictures / photo story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Harman (signed)

Pencils

? (photographs)

Inks

? (photographs)

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Indexer Notes

The inside front and back covers.

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Red Ryder / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Harman (credited)

Pencils

Fred Harman (credited)

Inks

Fred Harman (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At sundown a stranger rides into Red Ryder ranch.

Genre

western-frontier

Telecomics Presents King of the Royal Mounted (Table of Contents: 3)

King of the Royal Mounted / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Zane Grey

Pencils

Jim Gary (signed)

Inks

Jim Gary (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I've no love for that nag!

Genre

western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery

Indexer Notes

Telecomics introduces (two pages) and ends (3/4 of a page) the King of the Royal Mounted feature.

Little Beaver Ropes a Rascal (Table of Contents: 4)

Little Beaver / text story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois (sourced) (see notes)

Pencils

Morris Gollub (sourced)

Inks

Morris Gollub (sourced)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Red Ryder pocketed his change, picked up his purchase---a box of .45 cartridges---and started for the door.

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Red Ryder (rancher); Seth Daniels (storekeeper); Thunder (Red's horse); turkey buzzard 1; turkey buzzard 2; rabid coyote; Little Beaver (Navajo youngster); two horses (tracks referenced); Aunty Duchess; Joe Sleeping Turtle (Pueblo silversmith and con-man)

Synopsis

Joe overhears Seth warning Red of Aunty falling prey to Joe's swindle; he sabotages Thunder's saddle. Red takes a spill during a shortcut, is wounded; wild animals menace him. Little Beaver saves him. They track Aunty and Joe. Once exposed, Joe dashes. Little Beaver ropes him. Aunty gives Little Beaver a cash reward.

Indexer Notes

Du Bois entry states: "Little Beaver Ropes a Rascal. text for Red Ryder Comics #52. Sent June 5, 1947."

Du Bois identifiers:

• LANGUAGE:
1) "At her age she ought to know better than to fall for a windy like that." (Telling a windy in the West is telling an “extravagantly exaggerated or boastful story,” a tall tale, or a lie, says Dictionary of American Regional English.)
2) "saddle girth" ("a piece of equipment used to keep the saddle in place on a horse or other animal. It passes under the barrel of the equine, usually attached to the saddle on both sides by two or three leather straps called billets" - Wikipedia.)
3) "Little Beaver grabbed the forty-pound saddle by horn and cantle, and half dragged it to where Red sat. The big man glanced at the cut latigo." (cantle: "the upward projecting rear part of a saddle." www.merriam-webster.com; latigo "the long piece of leather that allows you to tighten the cinch on a western saddle." - www.aqha.com)
4) "like a range bull on the prod" (on the prod - "old-fashioned Having an antagonistic disposition; inclined to start trouble. Primarily heard in US." idioms the free dictionary com.)

• RACE/ETHICITY:
"...she aimed to buy the secret of an old Spanish treasure hoard from a Pueblo Injun."; "a Navajo arrow"; "Injun not dig."

• SPIRITUALITY:
"Injun not dig. Make ground-spirits mad."

• ANIMALS:
"Thunder, his big black horse, acted strangely nervous."; "Flies buzzed around the blood that oozed from Red's cut scalp. A turkey buzzard, wheeling lower and lower toward the earth, decided the man was dead or dying. It landed close by, paying no attention to Red's horse. Another buzzard landed heavily---and another. They were in no hurry to attack. Time---and death---would work for them. But their horrid waiting was interrupted. A gray-brown beast, crazed with sickness, appeared among the rocks. A prairie wolf! And just then, Red Ryder raised his arm. The coyote glared at him, growling. Ordinarily, the little wolf would have run, but sickness had made him dangerous. The buzzards knew it, somehow, and took wing. As they did so, four things happened so fast that they made one action. Red sat up. The coyote started toward him, snarling, leaped into the air, and fell dead. Through its heart was a Navajo arrow. Waving his bow, Little Beaver ran to his cowboy friend."; "there's the fresh tracks of two horses"; "Aunty Duchess snorted like a range bull on the prod."

• NATURE:
"Then the ground broke. A steep downslope ended in a jumble of rocks."; "a network of small canyons"; "around the corner of a canyon."

Mal Hombres (Table of Contents: 5)

The Kiyotee Kids / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois (sourced) (see notes)

Pencils

Harry Parkhurst (signed as Harry Parks) (Signature on page 8 of 8, bottom of panel 5 of 6.)

Inks

Harry Parkhurst (signed as Harry Parks) (Signature on page 8 of 8, bottom of panel 5 of 6.)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

With the crowd, the Kiyotee Kids watch the shaven outlaws ride out of Alkali Town.

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Sandy Rivers (Kiyotee, kid); Ted Lucas (Kiyotee, kid); Billy Haynes (Kiyotee, kid); shaven outlaws; Alkali townsfolk; Silk Selden (bank robber, gambler, killer); Broken Bow citizen 1 (dialogue); Charley Wade (Broken Bow deputy); Broken Bow citizen 2 (dialogue); two more Broken Bow citizens (pictured); Tom Gurry (storekeeper); all the horses on the hitching rail (referenced, pictured); broomtail horse (referenced, pictured); Gib (a Selden outlaw); Pepe Fulano (a shepherd)

Synopsis

Sandy deduces the shorn outlaws' next move, and sets the Kiyotees to thwart them. Ted tails the ones afoot. Billy trails the ones riding. Ted assigns Sandy comms. Silk and his riders successfully raid Broken Bow despite Billy's warning deputy Wade. Ted encounters Pepe, whose flock has been stolen by the outlaws afoot. Ted gives Pepe his horse, clothes, and a note to be delivered to Sandy, in exchange for Pepe's clothes. He goes undercover among the outlaws, as Pepe.

Indexer Notes

Du Bois entry states: "Kyotee Kids. 8p. For Red Ryder Comics #52. Sent May 27, 1947."

Du Bois identifiers:

STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS:
• Story page 1, panels 3-5; story page 2 panel 1.
TED: "What did you signal us for, Sandy?"
SANDY: "Look! Those eleven badmen are poison-mad! We've got to watch out that they don't spring a six-gun surprise on Alkali..and take over again."
TED: "You mean--trail 'em?"
SANDY: "Yes! They're a long way from licked. They need hats and horses and guns and grub. And they aren't the kind to go SHOPPING for them."
TED: "Uh-hun. I hadn't thought of it that way. But you're right, Sandy. We'll saddle up our horses and ride out of town separately--meeting up at Signal Knob."
BILLY: "That's good! We can see for ten miles around from there."
SANDY: "I'll go first."
• Story page 2 panel 4.
SANDY: "We have to make sure those MAL HOMBRES don't hide out near town and make a raid tonight--for guns and stuff."
TED: "Yeah... I wouldn't put it past them, Sandy... THERE THEY ARE!"
• Story page 3 panels 1-2.
TED: "To do this job, Kiyotees, we'll have to split up! Billy--you've got a good horse--- Trail Silk Selden and the three riders with him--now!"
BILLY: "OKAY, TED..."
SANDY: "How about me, Ted? Don't you dare leave me out!"
TED: "Don't worry! You've got to stay in town, to relay any messages we send to Sheriff Simms. So long, Sandy. I'm trailing those hombres that Selden left afoot."
SANDY: "Watch your step, Ted!"

LANGUAGE (SPANISH & Spanish accent):
• Story page 2 panel 4.
SANDY: "We have to make sure those MAL HOMBRES don't hide out near town and make a raid tonight--for guns and stuff."
• Story page 3 panel 3.
TED: "So long, Sandy. I'm trailing those hombres that Selden left afoot."
• Story page 4 panel 3.
BILLY: "Mr. Wade! Four MAL HOMBRES, that were run out of Alkali today, have just hit town!"
• Story page 4 panel 5.
BILLY: "I spotted these hairless hombres, heading for Gurry's."
• Story page 7 panels 3-6.
PEPE: "Sob. Sob! Ladrones! Diablos blancos!"
TED: "Just a minute, amigo!"
PEPE: "Aie! Mas ladrones! Mal hombres.."
TED: "Que hay?"
PEPE: "Mis ovejas! Zey Rob my sheep! Zey keeck me in ze face. Now I am 'fraid to go home...My padre weel keel me for losing ze sheep. Dios mio! What shall I do?"
• Story page 8 panels 1-2.
TED: "Listen, amigo!"
PEPE: "No entiendo...w'at you mean?"
TED: "Here...give me your sombrero!"
PEPE: "You GEEV me, Pepe Fulano, your clo's and your horse too? But for what?"
• Story page 8 panels 5-6.
TED: "Eet ees only me..Pepe, Señor. ... To watch ze sheep for you, Señor...Eef I go home wizout zem, I am scare' mi padre weel keel me...Please, Señor, permeet me to stay!"

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Panamint Patty / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Dan Gormley (credited, signed)

Pencils

Dan Gormley (credited, signed)

Inks

Dan Gormley (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There's only one safe place for this here money...

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Fred Harman on Thunder (Table of Contents: 7)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Colors

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Characters

Fred Harman

Indexer Notes

The back cover.

Autographed photo of Fred Harman as Red Ryder.