(March 1949)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Zane Grey's WEST OF THE PECOS, No. 222." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #222-493. Copyright 1937, 1949, by Zane Grey, Inc. Published by arrangement with The Hawley Publications, Inc.; authorized edition.
Texas
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- Introduction to the setting of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
West of the Pecos
comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Zane Grey (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
- Pencils:
- Arthur E. Jameson
- Inks:
- Arthur E. Jameson
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- "Pecos" Smith; Terrill Lambeth; Breen Sawtell (villain); Judge Roy Bean (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- "Pecos" Smith comes to Eagle Nest, Texas, to find that an old friend has been killed and his son has been jailed on the orders of Breen Sawtell, the town's boss. Smith gets the boy out of jail and becomes a partner on the ranch. What Smith doesn't know is that his partner is actually a girl, disguised as a boy.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1937 novel "West of the Pecos" by Zane Grey. Art identification by Hames Ware (November 9, 2010).
Guitar Croonin' Blues
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- C. Wiles Hallock (credited)
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Synopsis:
- Lyrics to the song "Guitar Croonin' Blues."
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations. Song is listed in indicia as copyright 1948 by C. Wiles Hallock.
[Cowboy and Cattle]
illustration / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- Mounted cowboy on ridge overlooking herd of cows.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Artist is the same as front cover. "Morris Gollub ?" credit for this sequence was from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Hames Ware also says it's Gollub, so removed the question mark. (November 9, 2010).
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- 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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