(April 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- 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 "BUCK JONES, No. 460". (Large blank space in indicia after "460" seems to indicate title was changed at last minute.) Code number is B.J.O.S. #460-534. Copyright 1953 by Mrs. Odille D. Jones. Series continues from Buck Jones (Dell, 1949 series) #8 (October-December 1952).
[no title indexed]
Buck Jones / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
Indexer Notes
Art credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Buck Jones and the Headless Horseman
Buck Jones / comic story / 24 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sparky Moore
- Inks:
- Sparky Moore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
- Synopsis:
- A headless horseman is terrorizing an old prospector who has retired to a small ranch. Buck goes to visit and ends up at the home of Karl Mueller, who tells him the story of Don Miguel, an old Spanish soldier who built the hacienda Mueller lives in, and who was later beheaded by bandits. The legend is that the headless horseman is Don Miguel's ghost.
Indexer Notes
Story begins on inside front cover in black and white. Karl Mueller is a stereotypical German, complete with monocle and dueling scar.
The Books of Death
Buck Jones / comic story / 11 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sparky Moore
- Inks:
- Sparky Moore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
- Synopsis:
- After finding an empty stage with no passengers or baggage and the driver dead nearby, Buck goes to the Gopher City sheriff. There he finds that the bank's $20,000 in reserve cash has been substituted with counterfeit money.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
Buck Jones and the Headless Horseman
Buck Jones -
2.
The Books of Death
Buck Jones
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- Merlin Haas
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- John P. Selegue
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- 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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