(November 1952)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- quarterly
- 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 WILDFIRE, No. 433." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #433-5211. Copyright 1952 by Zone Grey, Inc. "Published by arrangement with The Hawley Publications, Inc." "Picturized version adapted from "Wildfire" by Zane Grey, copyright, 1916, by Curtis Publications Co., copyright renewed, 1944 by Lina Elise Grey."
Home on the Range
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- traditional
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Synopsis:
- Lyrics to traditional cowboy song "Home on the Range."
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. One illustration with typeset text.
Zane Grey's Wildfire
comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Al McKimson Team
- Inks:
- Al McKimson Team
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Synopsis:
- While on a training ride on the ranch race horse Sage King, Lucy Bostil finds a roped wild stallion tangled in a bed of cactus. She rescues the horse and soon afterwards finds the man who roped it, who has an injured back. After both the man and horse recover, Lucy enters the stallion, now named "Wildfire", in a big race, competing against her father's champion Sage King.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1916 novel "Wildfire" by Zane Grey. Script submitted on March 29, 1952. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
The art here was originally credited to Harry Ramsey. The artwork is exactely identical to many Roy Rogers stories, #41,#46, etc. Some call it the Alvarado stories, as he was one the artists in the Al McKimson Team. Many of the later text stories in Roy Rogers is credited to this team too; #82.
Al McKimson was a pen name for several artists. First the brothers Chuck and Tom McKimson. Others were Pete Alvarado, John Ushler, Randy Steffen, Andrew Bensen, Hi Mankin, Mike Arens, Alex Toth. New art identification by Steinar Ådland January 2011.
- Steinar Ådland
- 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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