(June 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 "WILD BILL ELLIOTT, No. 472." (Large blank spot after "472" in indicia may mean title was changed.) Code number is B.E.O.S. #472-536. Copyright 1953 by Stephen Slesinger. One of two Wild Bill Elliott Four Colors that interrupt his regular numbered series. This issue follows Wild Bill Elliott (Dell, 1950 series) #10 (September-November 1952) and could be considered issue #11.
Western Stock Saddle
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; fact
- Synopsis:
- Facts about the western stock saddle.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text.
Wild Bill Elliott and the River Slaughter
Wild Bill Elliott / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Cary
- Inks:
- Cary
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wild Bill Elliott; Stormy Night (horse);
- Synopsis:
- Rustlers are stealing cattle, slaughtering them, and selling the meat to a crooked distributer. Bill, with the help of Larry Lane of the Cattlemen's Association and Zeb Waters, an old friend who runs a ferry, has to find the location of the illegal slaughterhouse somewhere along the river.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Hy Mankin ? by Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Art is the same as in Four Color #278, which is signed "Cary." No other information is available about this artist on the Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website.
New art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010
Wild Bill Elliott and the Robber Roundup
Wild Bill Elliott / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Cary
- Inks:
- Cary
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wild Bill Elliott; Stormy Night (horse)
- Synopsis:
- Bill comes across a stage robbery in progress and one of the robbers is captured. After arriving in Twin Peaks with the captive, Bill learns that there have been four other holdups, all involving gold shipments from the Antler Mining and Smelting Company.
Indexer Notes
Art is the same as in Four Color #278, which is signed "Cary." No other information is available about this artist on the Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website.
Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010
Black Kettle
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Till Goodan (signed)
- Inks:
- Till Goodan (signed)
- Letters:
- Till Goodan
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; bio
- Characters:
- Black Kettle
- Synopsis:
- Story of Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, whose camp was attacked in the Sand Creek Massacre.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Two illustrations with hand-lettered text.
[Bill washing his hands]
[Wild Bill Elliott] / illustration / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- ? (photo)
- Inks:
- ? (photo)
- Colors:
- ? (photo)
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wild Bill Elliott (photo)
- Synopsis:
- Posed photo of Bill washing his hands in an old-fashioned washbowl.
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color.
Table of Contents
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1.
Western Stock Saddle
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2.
Wild Bill Elliott and the River Slaughter
Wild Bill Elliott -
3.
Wild Bill Elliott and the Robber Roundup
Wild Bill Elliott -
4.
Black Kettle
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5.
[Bill washing his hands]
[Wild Bill Elliott]
- Steinar Ådland
- Alan Hutchinson
- 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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