(November 1950)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- 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 THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER, No. 301." (note that it is "Zane Grey," not "Zane Grey's.") Code number is Z.G.O.S. #301-5011. Copyright 1950 by Zane Grey, Inc. Eighth of 26 Zane Grey Four Colors.
The Cowboy's Life
filler / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- [traditional song]
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover and inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and lyrics to the western song "The Cowboy's Life" in large type. Lyrics are from "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" collected by John A. Lomax, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929.
The Mysterious Rider
comic story / 48 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Zane Grey (original story); ? (adaptation)
- Pencils:
- Bob Jenney
- Inks:
- Bob Jenney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Bent Wade; Bill Bellhounds; Jack Bellhounds; Columbine Bellhounds; Wilson Moore
- Synopsis:
- Bent Wade mistakenly kills an innocent man who was accompanying his wife and newborn daughter. His wife takes their daughter back east, but the wagon train they are traveling with is massacred by Indians. Bent Wade spends the next 20 years searching for his daughter, whose body was missing from the remains of the wagon train. He is seemingly cursed, as innocent men die by various means whenever he is around. His travels take him to Bill Bellhound's Whiteslides Ranch, where unknown to him, his daughter was taken 20 years ago when she was found in a grove of Columbine trees. Columbine is pledged to marry the cruel Jack Bellhounds, but loves ranch hand Wilson Moore. Jack frames Moore for a robbery and Wade must find a way to clear him.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from "The Mysterious Rider" by Zane Grey, originally published in 1921.
[The Pecos Queen]
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- [traditional song]
- Pencils:
- ? (painting)
- Inks:
- ? (painting)
- Colors:
- ? (painting)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Patty Morehead
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Painting with block of typeset lyrics to the western song "The Pecos Queen." Lyrics are from "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" collected by John A. Lomax, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929.
- Gene Reed
- 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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