Four Color #1102 - Wanted: Dead or Alive!
(May-July 1960)

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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1960-03-31
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell Western Adventure
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1102." Code number is WANT. D. or A. O.S. #1102-605. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Cover logo and story logos have exclamation point, indicia does not. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

[Payment Delayed] (Table of Contents)

Wanted: Dead or Alive! / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Josh Randall (photo of Steve McQueen)

Payment Delayed / Badman in Blue (Table of Contents: 1)

Wanted: Dead or Alive! / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?; ? (photo)
Inks
?; ? (photo)
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Josh Randall (photo of Steve McQueen)
Synopsis
Previews of the two stories in the issue.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Photo plus two-panel previews of each story.

Payment Delayed (Table of Contents: 2)

Wanted: Dead or Alive! / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Josh Randall; Andrew Bascom [Croak Bascom]
Synopsis
A bank robber disappears after robbing a bank of $9,000 and killing the cashier and bank president. A year later, Josh Randall tries to pick up his trail.

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013).

Bounty Hunters of the Sierra (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
History of the use of bounty hunters by the Mexican government against the Apache and Comanche Indians in the Sierra Madres from the 1830s to the 1870s.

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013).

Text with three illustrations.

Badman In Blue (Table of Contents: 4)

Wanted: Dead or Alive! / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Josh Randall; Jason Fleager
Synopsis
Josh Randall trails a wanted killer and finds him riding with the cavalry, disguised as a trooper.

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013).

The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

The Man Hunt (Table of Contents: 5)

Wanted: Dead or Alive! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
The process of how the bounty system developed.

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott, which states: "The Man Hunt. cover #3 for Wanted, Dead or Alive, stock. Sent October 27, 1959." Cover #3. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013).

Inside back cover; black and white. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo is at the top of the page, but no characters appear.

This is a Kangarooseal (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Kraft Caramels / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Payment Delayed]
    Wanted: Dead or Alive!
  2. 1. Payment Delayed / Badman in Blue
    Wanted: Dead or Alive!
  3. 2. Payment Delayed
    Wanted: Dead or Alive!
  4. 3. Bounty Hunters of the Sierra
  5. 4. Badman In Blue
    Wanted: Dead or Alive!
  6. 5. The Man Hunt
    Wanted: Dead or Alive!
  7. 6. This is a Kangarooseal
    Kraft Caramels
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Steve Coates
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Dave Porta
  • Jim Van Dore