(October 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 "BUCK JONES, No. 850." Code number is B.J.O.S. #850-5710. Copyright 1957 by Mrs. Odille D. Jones.
Dynamite or Disguise
Buck Jones / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Don Spaulding (painting)
- Inks:
- Don Spaulding (painting)
- Colors:
- Don Spaulding (painting)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Buck Jones
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Texas Ekstranummer (Se-Bladene, 1959 series) #3a/1964 ([mars] 1964)
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Disbeliever
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Synopsis:
- Possibly factual story of an incident involving Sioux Indians, telegraph lines, and lightning.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Texas Ekstranummer (Se-Bladene, 1959 series) #3a/1964 ([mars] 1964)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Zip-a-tone or Crafttint shading is used, not common in Dell comics. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Dynamite and Disguise
Buck Jones / comic story / 18 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jesse Marsh
- Inks:
- Jesse Marsh
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
- Synopsis:
- Two men ambush Buck and take his horse, Silver-B, to an outlaw gang's hideout called "Devil's Island", a fortress surrounded by a deep gorge and accessible only by a rock bridge. The outlaws track Buck to a sheriff's office, where they try to kill him but fail and one of the outlaws is captured. Buck disguises himself as the captured outlaw and plans to take a wagon-load of dynamite to blow up the doors to the fortress.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Texas Ekstranummer (Se-Bladene, 1959 series) #3a/1964 ([mars] 1964)
Indexer Notes
Story title is not identical to that on the cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Fast Draw
Buck Jones / comic story / 15 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Nat Edson
- Inks:
- Nat Edson
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
- Synopsis:
- Buck helps Ed Norris, the new sheriff of Pleasant Valley, improve the speed of his draw and gain self-confidence.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Texas Ekstranummer (Se-Bladene, 1959 series) #3a/1964 ([mars] 1964)
Indexer Notes
Story concludes on inside back cover in black and white.
New art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010.
Notice large pointed hooves on running horses, sawtoothed mane, and faces and hats skewed to the right. All Edson clues.
Banner of the Cow Country
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; fact
- Synopsis:
- Facts about the uses of the cowboy's bandana.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Texas Ekstranummer (Se-Bladene, 1959 series) #3a/1964 ([mars] 1964)
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
The Disbeliever
-
2.
Dynamite and Disguise
Buck Jones -
3.
Fast Draw
Buck Jones -
4.
Banner of the Cow Country
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Steinar Ådland
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- 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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