Four Color
#1005 - Maverick
(July-September 1959)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1959
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Helen Meyer (president)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "MAVERICK, No. 1005." Code number is MAVERICK.O.S. #1005-597. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Sixth of six Maverick Four Colors. Continues as Maverick (Dell, 1959 series) with #7 (October-December 1959). Based on the 1957-62 ABC TV series "Maverick."
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Maverick / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Even while minding our own business...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bret Maverick (photo of James Garner); Bart Maverick (photo of Jack Kelly)
- Synopsis
- Preview of first story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos and typeset text.
Gunfight Election
Maverick / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Dan Spiegle (signed as D. S.)
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle (signed as D. S.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bret Maverick; Bart Maverick; Smiling Jim Caffrey (villain)
- Synopsis
- Smiling Jim Caffrey, the corrupt mayor of Rimfire, talks about welcoming competition in the mayoral election, but has his henchmen rough up anyone who tries to run against him. Bret and Bart get involved with challenger Jeff Connors' campaign against Caffrey.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- election
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in Indexer Notes
Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Loan
Maverick / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Dan Spiegle (signed as D. S.)
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle (signed as D. S.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bret Maverick; Bart Maverick; Lucy Tanner
- Synopsis
- Bret is upset when Bart loans a pretty girl $2,000 for a doctor for her sick mother and the girl leaves town suddenly. Bart and Bret go to Powder City to check out the girl's story.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Sporting Bandit
Maverick / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bart Maverick
- Synopsis
- Bart Maverick is on a stage that is held up by a masked bandit. The bandit allows Bart to play cards to win back the passengers' and his money, which he does. The bandit then leaves, with a comment that Bart has beaten him in cards before.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with the story told in the first person by Bart Maverick in typeset text underneath.
Sound the Alarm!
Maverick / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Bret Maverick (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Facts about fire-fighting in the old west, told in the first person by Bret Maverick.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Monochrome color in each panel. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Gunfight Election!
Maverick -
1.
["Even while minding our own business..."]
Maverick -
2.
Gunfight Election
Maverick -
3.
The Loan
Maverick -
4.
The Sporting Bandit
Maverick -
5.
Sound the Alarm!
Maverick
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- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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