Four Color #828 - Buffalo Bill, Jr.
(August 1957)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1957
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "BUFFALO BILL, JR., No. 828." Code number is B.BILL,JR. O.S. #828-578. Copyright 1957 by Flying A Productions. Based on the 1955 "Buffalo Bill Jr." syndicated TV series. Fifth of six Buffalo Bill Jr. Four Color issues.

Dell address: 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York. Designed and produced by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. Printed in U.S.A.

Comic is 36 pages, but has variant editions with different back covers, either Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz or Weather in the West.
This issue has variants:

Redskin Gap (Table of Contents)

Buffalo Bill Jr. / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buffalo Bill Jr. (photo of Dickie Jones)
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Buffalo Bill Jr. / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photos)
Inks
? (photos)
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Judge is real good...
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buffalo Bill Jr. (photo of Dickie Jones); Judge Wiley (photo of Harry Cheshire)
Synopsis
Intro to series.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos from the TV series with brief typeset text.

The Rain Wagon (Table of Contents: 2)

Buffalo Bill Jr. / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Correa
Inks
Bob Correa
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buffalo Bill Jr.; Judge Wiley; Calamity Jane
Synopsis
In the midst of a drought, conmen use a "rainmaking machine" to provide cover when they rob the express office.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

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

Redskin Gap (Table of Contents: 3)

Buffalo Bill Jr. / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Correa
Inks
Bob Correa
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Buffalo Bill Jr.; Calamity Jane; Judge Wiley
Synopsis
A bandit hijacks a stage, not knowing that a marshal is sleeping inside. The marshal handcuffs himself to the bandit, but the bandit slugs him. He takes his star and pretends to be the marshal and has the unconscious man locked up by Buffalo Bill Jr. When the ruse is found out, Bill and Calamity follow the bandit and his gang to a border crossing called "Redskin Gap".
Reprints

Indexer Notes

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

Signals Across the Plains (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Synopsis
Forms of communication used before the telegraph came to the Old West.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white.

Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Weather in the West (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Variant back cover. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents".

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Redskin Gap
    Buffalo Bill Jr.
  2. 1. ["The Judge is real good..."]
    Buffalo Bill Jr.
  3. 2. The Rain Wagon
    Buffalo Bill Jr.
  4. 3. Redskin Gap
    Buffalo Bill Jr.
  5. 4. Signals Across the Plains
  6. 5. Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz
    Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum
  7. 6. Weather in the West
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Chris Boyko
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Alan Hutchinson
  • Keith Alan Morgan