Four Color #856

(November 1957)

A Bronc Named Gunboat (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Buffalo Bill Jr.; Calamity Jane

Synopsis:

Preview of the first story in the issue. (Note that the title does not exactly match that of the interior story.)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white.

A Bronc Called Gunboat (Table of Contents)

Buffalo Bill Jr. / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Buffalo Bill Jr.; Judge Wiley; Calamity Jane

Synopsis:

Buffalo Bill Jr. tries to ride a dangerous mustang to get money to buy the Judge a birthday present, but fails. After an outlaw takes Bill's horse, Bill again tries to ride the killer horse.

The Feud (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Jed Wayne; Pete Logan; Jim Colt

Synopsis:

Sheriff Jim Colt tries to make two feuding cattlemen share access to a waterhole.

Indexer Notes

Text story with 1/4 page illustration.

The Big Stampede (Table of Contents)

The Buffalo Hunter / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Sandy Hill; Wise Knife

Synopsis:

Sandy Hill and Wise Knife survive a buffalo stampede and follow the herd to kill enough buffalo to settle a debt.

Pawnee Stampede (Table of Contents)

Buffalo Bill Jr. / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Buffalo Bill Jr.; Judge Wiley; Calamity Jane; Rev. Palmer

Synopsis:

An Indian agent extorts hides from the Pawnee in order to keep the government from opening the land to homesteaders. The townspeople get enough signatures on a petition to open the land, but the Indian agent plans on dynamiting a pass in order to claim the best land for himself and his gang.

Breaking a Bronc (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Letters:

typesset

Content Information

Genre:

fact; western

Synopsis:

The process of breaking a wild horse to a saddle.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text above.

Settling the West (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

fact; western

Characters:

Abraham Lincoln (cameo)

Synopsis:

History of land claims in the Old West.

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Panels with typeset text above. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."