(September 1955)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- 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. 643." Code number is B.E. #18-559 (Apparently originally intended to be Wild Bill Elliott #18 before ending up as a Four Color.) Copyright 1955 by Stephen Slesinger. Continues from Wild Bill Elliott (Dell, 1950 series) #17 (April-June 1955).
[no title indexed]
Wild Bill Elliott / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- ? (painting); ? (photo)
- Inks:
- ? (painting); ? (photo)
- Colors:
- ? (painting); ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wild Bill Elliott (photo)
Indexer Notes
Cover is collage of cropped Wild Bill Elliot photo and painting of various rope knots.
["Dell is proud to present one of its many awards..."]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- Facsimile of Distinguished Achievement Award given Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. by Newsdealers Post Number 1169, American Legion, on November 14, 1954.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Also includes typeset version of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." (not in usual form.)
Mystery of Furnace Valley
Wild Bill Elliot / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Albert Micale
- Inks:
- Albert Micale
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wild Bill Elliott; Stormy (horse); Furnace Valley Scotty
- Synopsis:
- Bill comes to Mojave to meet an old sourdough friend, Furnace Valley Scotty, who owns a ghost town called Akali. He finds that the town is now the base of an borax-hauling operation owned by Mike Gorin, a former rustler, who claims he bought the town from Scotty.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Peril at Sundown
Wild Bill Elliott / comic story / 16.67 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Albert Micale
- Inks:
- Albert Micale
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wild Bill Elliott; Stormy (horse)
- Synopsis:
- Bill is serving as temporary sheriff at Sundown. Meanwhile, rancher Gil Carson has an unwelcome guest in outlaw Slip Gavin. Carson was part of a bank robbery with Gavin ten years ago, but has gone straight since. Gavin threatens to expose him unless Carson allows him and his gang to stay at his ranch. While at the ranch, Gavin comes up with a scheme to fleece the local ranchers by pretending to be boss of a survey crew for a new railroad.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
["It's out Now!"]
Western Roundup / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
Indexer Notes
Promo for Western Roundup (Dell, 1952 series) #11. Line-drawn version of photo cover is depicted. Promo comes at bottom of last interior page, in the middle of the story.
Table of Contents
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1.
["Dell is proud to present one of its many awards..."]
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2.
Mystery of Furnace Valley
Wild Bill Elliot -
3.
Peril at Sundown
Wild Bill Elliott -
4.
["It's out Now!"]
Western Roundup
- 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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