(February 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- quarterly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- 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 TAPPAN'S BURRO, No. 449." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #449-532. Copyright 1952 by Zane Grey, Inc. "Published by arrangement with the Hawley Publications, Inc." "Picturized edition adapted from the novel "Tappan's Burro" by Zane Grey, copyright 1923, by Zane Grey; copyright renewed 1951 by Lina Elise Grey."
The Wagon Train
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- traditional
- Pencils:
- Ray Thayer
- Inks:
- Ray Thayer
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Synopsis:
- A traditional cowboy song about Sioux Indians attacking a wagon train.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration with typeset text. Stanzas two through seven of the nine stanza song printed under the title "Sioux Indians" in the 1918 book "Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads" by John Avery Lomax. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Zane Grey's Tappan's Burro
comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Ray Thayer
- Inks:
- Ray Thayer
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Synopsis:
- The adventures of the prospector Tappan and his faithful burro Jenet as they battle desert heat, rustlers, and mountain snowstorms over the years.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Adapted from the 1923 novel "Tappan's Burro" by Zane Grey. Oddity: Man depicted as Tappan in the cover painting has dark hair and a beard. In the interior story, Tappan has light brown hair and is clean-shaven. Script submitted on June 23, 1952, under the title "Through Fire and Snow". 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).
- 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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