(March-May 1962)
- Price:
- 0.15 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 "77 Sunset Strip, No. 1291." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP O.S. #1291-622. Copyright 1962 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series. Continues as 77 Sunset Strip #01-742-209 (July-September 1962).
[Man on a Ledge]
77 Sunset Strip / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- ? (photo)
- Inks:
- ? (photo)
- Colors:
- ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Stuart Bailey (as played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., photo); Kookie (as played by Edward Byrnes, photo); Jeff Spencer (as played by Roger Smith, photo)
The Return of the Fugitive / Man on a Ledge
77 Sunset Strip / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Russ Manning; ? (photo)
- Inks:
- Russ Manning; ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Stuart Bailey (as played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., photo); Kookie (as played by Edward Byrnes, photo); Jeff Spencer (as played by Roger Smith, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo from the TV series plus two panels from each of the two stories in the issue.
Return of the Fugitive
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Shaefer
- Pencils:
- Russ Manning
- Inks:
- Russ Manning
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Stuart Bailey; Kookie; Roscoe; Hiram Greer
- Synopsis:
- A man returns from a five-year stint in the Orient to discover that he's wanted for embezzlement. He engages Stu to find to find the guilty man. The trail takes them to South America in search of a man who may provide the solution to the case.
Indexer Notes
Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Man On A Ledge
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 15 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Russ Manning
- Inks:
- Russ Manning ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Jeff Spencer; Kookie; Stuart Bailey
- Synopsis:
- A man standing on a ledge and threatening to jump provides a distraction that lets two men rob a nearby bank. The action plays out exactly like the plot of a movie due to be released and Jeff and Kookie go to the movie studio to see who had access to the film script.
Indexer Notes
Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Art looks like Manning may have had assists from other artists (Alex Toth?). Manning's name is on door in panel 4 of page 5. Store name in panel one of page 13 of the story says "Manning." Other store in same panel is named "Doe's" (Manning's wife's name.) Sign in background on panel three of page five is ad for K-D-O-E radio.
Cool Thinking
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Russ Manning
- Inks:
- Russ Manning
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Stuart Bailey; Kookie
- Synopsis:
- Kookie's jive talk trips up a robber who disguised himself as a Mexican immigrant.
Indexer Notes
Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Private Police
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Russ Manning
- Inks:
- Russ Manning
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- Facts about private police forces.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Fences
77 Sunset Strip / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Russ Manning
- Inks:
- Russ Manning
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- Description of the activities of "fences" used to traffic in stolen goods.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "77 Sunset Strip" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Table of Contents
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1.
The Return of the Fugitive / Man on a Ledge
77 Sunset Strip -
2.
Return of the Fugitive
77 Sunset Strip -
3.
Man On A Ledge
77 Sunset Strip -
4.
Cool Thinking
77 Sunset Strip -
5.
Private Police
-
6.
Fences
77 Sunset Strip
- 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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