(March 1957)
- 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 "Luke Short's BRAND OF EMPIRE, No. 771." Code number is B.ofE.O.S. #771-573. Copyright 1956 by Frederick D. Glidden. "Picturized edition adapted from "Red Trail to Black Treasure" by Luke Short, copyright, 1937, by Luke Short."
Branded
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Mort Drucker
- Inks:
- Mort Drucker
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Pete Yard; Matt Waranrode; Ben Mellish; Steve Trueblood
- Synopsis:
- Teaser for story with head shots of four characters.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Brand of Empire
comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Mort Drucker
- Inks:
- Mort Drucker
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Pete Yard; Matt Waranrode; Steve Trueblood; Ben Mellish
- Synopsis:
- A senator plots a range war to draw attention away from his land acquisitions around a new dam near a Ute Indian reservation. A fortune in coal lies under the land the Senator wants.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from "Red Trail to Black Treasure" by Luke Short serialized in Street and Smith’s "Western Story Magazine," Vol. 159, No. 6; Vol. 160, No. 1-4; October 9, 1937-November 6, 1937. This serial was later collected and published under the title "Brand of Empire." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
- 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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