Four Color
#996 - Zane Grey's Stories of the West
(June-August 1959)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1959
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Zane Grey's STORIES OF THE WEST, Nevada, No. 996." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #996-596. Copyright 1959 by Zane Grey, Inc.
Nevada
Zane Grey's Stories of the West / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Inks
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Colors
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Nevada
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Cowboy's Saddle Gun
The Cowboy - at Work, at Play / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- How a cowboy uses his saddle gun, a 30/30 caliber Winchester carbine.
- Reprints
-
in Zane Grey's Stories of the West, Nevada (Western, 1964 series) #[1] (November 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Cattle War
Zane Grey's Stories of the West / comic story / 27 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Nevada; Chuckwalla; Horrocks; Major Doone; Hetty; Raidy; California Red (horse)
- Synopsis
- Major Doone buys a ranch and immediately works on expansion, by hook or crook. Nevada gets involved when Doone's crew threatens a neighbor, an old rancher named Chuckwalla. After Nevada works over the foreman in a fistfight, he and Chuckwalla are ambushed in town, with Chuckwalla being killed. Doone tries to frame Nevada for the killing, but Nevada escapes. He must elude a posse as he tries to find out Doone's real identity.
- Reprints
- in Zane Grey's Stories of the West, Nevada (Western, 1964 series) #[1] (November 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Old Sheriff
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Keto; Sheriff Cole
- Synopsis
- Old Sheriff Cole turns in his badge when he learns that gunslinger Pony Carter is coming to town.
- Reprints
- in Zane Grey's Stories of the West, Nevada (Western, 1964 series) #[1] (November 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with 1/6 page illustration. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[The Inspector's Wife]
True Western Adventures / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Dave Allison; H. L. Roberson; Mrs. Roberson
- Synopsis
- When cattle rustlers kill two brand inspectors in a hotel in Seminole, Texas, the wife of one of the men killed takes a gun, tracks them down in town, and shoots them.
- Reprints
- in Zane Grey's Stories of the West, Nevada (Western, 1964 series) #[1] (November 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
James Mason Peck
Pioneers of the West / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- James Mason Peck
- Synopsis
- The story of James Mason Peck, who produced guidebooks for settlers going west on wagon trains.
- Reprints
- in Zane Grey's Stories of the West, Nevada (Western, 1964 series) #[1] (November 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
George Reynolds of Texas
Famous Westerners / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- George Reynolds
- Synopsis
- How cowboy George Reynolds survived being struck in the back by an arrow in 1867.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). JV - This story is signed "AM".
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Nevada
Zane Grey's Stories of the West -
1.
The Cowboy's Saddle Gun
The Cowboy - at Work, at Play -
2.
The Cattle War
Zane Grey's Stories of the West -
3.
The Old Sheriff
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4.
[The Inspector's Wife]
True Western Adventures -
5.
James Mason Peck
Pioneers of the West -
6.
George Reynolds of Texas
Famous Westerners
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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