(June 1959)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell A Movie Classic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "RIO BRAVO, No. 1018". Code number is RIO BRAVO O.S. #1018-596. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo".
Rio Bravo
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- ? (photo)
- Inks:
- ? (photo)
- Colors:
- ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Sheriff John Chance (as played by John Wayne, photo); Dude [Borachón] (as played by Dean Martin, photo); Colorado Ryan (as played by Ricky Nelson, photo)
Indexer Notes
Cover photo has the background cropped out.
[Preview]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Sheriff John Chance (as played by John Wayne, photo); Dude [Borachón] (as played by Dean Martin, photo); Colorado Ryan (as played by Ricky Nelson, photo); Stumpy (as played by Walter Brennan, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Preview of story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and partial cast and credits from the movie.
Rio Bravo
comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Alex Toth
- Inks:
- Alex Toth
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Sheriff John Chance; Dude [Borachón]; Colorado Ryan; Feathers; Stumpy; Pat Wheeler; Nathan Burdette; Joe Burdette
- Synopsis:
- When Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for murder, the Burdette gang bottles up the town of Rio Bravo and refuses to let anyone in who will help the Sheriff. Chance has to depend on a crippled deputy and a disgraced drunk to hold out and keep Joe Burdette in jail until the Marshal arrives. Matters are complicated by the arrival of a young gunslinger and a mysterious woman on the last stagecoach.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo".
Wanted! Wanted!
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Ushler
- Inks:
- John Ushler
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
- Synopsis:
- Facts about the use of "Wanted" posters in the old West.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Art by Ushler recognizeable by the hatbrim in sideview, and the bulging hair in the neck. Also face of wondering Sheriff. Art ID by Steinar Ådland January 2011.
General Bulletin Tree
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Ushler
- Inks:
- John Ushler
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
- Synopsis:
- Facts about the posting of notices on trees in old West towns with no newspapers.
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath. Art by Ushler recognizeable by face in sideview with the bulging hair in the neck. Also face of wondering man in green. Art ID by Steinar Ådland January 2011.
- Jim Van Dore
- Steinar Ådland
- Gary L. Watson
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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