Four Color #733 - Buck Jones
(October 1956)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1956
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "BUCK JONES, No. 733." Code number is B.J.O.S. #732-5610. Copyright 1956 by Mrs. Odille D. Jones. Seventh of eight Buck Jones Four Colors.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Buck Jones / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Don Spaulding (painting)
Inks
Don Spaulding (painting)
Colors
Don Spaulding (painting)

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buck Jones
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Indexer Notes

Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Choker Team (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction
Synopsis
Facts about horse teams that pulled cut logs down hills.
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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration with typeset text.

Perilous Crossing (Table of Contents: 2)

Buck Jones / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Nat Edson
Inks
Nat Edson
Colors
?
Letters
Nat Edson

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse); Jim McCormick; Mike McCormick; Wade Yancy
Synopsis
Buck rides to Granite City and finds that Jim McCormick, a friend, is selling cattle. He meets McCormick's foreman and also McCormick's son, who had been missing for many years and had just recently turned up. Riding on to the McCormick ranch, Buck notices that the foreman seems to be very controlling of McCormick's son and decides to investigate.
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Indexer Notes

Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Buck Jones and the Man Called Johnson (Table of Contents: 3)

Buck Jones / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Nat Edson
Inks
Nat Edson
Colors
?
Letters
Nat Edson

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse); Mort Kreger; Luke Johnson
Synopsis
Mort Kreger, thief, forger, and renegade, assumes the identity of Luke Johnson after he ambushes him. Buck comes across Johnson and takes him to town where Johnson plans to withdraw some money from the bank, only to find that the impostor has been there first.
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Indexer Notes

Story concludes on inside back cover in black and white. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

The Happy Cereal (Table of Contents: 4)

Trix; General Mills / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Illustrated ad for Trix breakfast cereal.

Comanche (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Comanche (horse)
Synopsis
Comanche, ridden by Captain Myles Keogh, was the sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand in 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in Montana.
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Indexer Notes

Variant back cover.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Buck Jones
  2. 1. Choker Team
  3. 2. Perilous Crossing
    Buck Jones
  4. 3. Buck Jones and the Man Called Johnson
    Buck Jones
  5. 4. The Happy Cereal
    Trix; General Mills
  6. 5. Comanche
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Keith Alan Morgan