(July-September 1959)
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- ?
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE RIFLEMAN, No. 1009". Code number is T.RIFLEMAN O.S. #1009-597. Copyright 1959 by Four Star-Sussex. First and only Rifleman Four Color. Becomes The Rifleman (Dell 1960 series) with #2 (January-March 1960). Based on the ABC TV series "The Rifleman". All instances of "The Rifleman" as a logo in this issue have an asterisk at the end with a note somewhere else on the page that says "*Trademark".
[Preview]
The Rifleman / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Chuck Connors (as Lucas McCain, The Rifleman, photos); Johnny Crawford (as Mark McCain, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Introduction to the series.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos and typeset text.
Outlaw's Pony
The Rifleman / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Lucas McCain [The Rifleman]; Mark McCain; Marshal Micah Torrence
- Synopsis:
- Lucas joins a posse after the Cattleman's Association is robbed of $3,000. Meanwhile Mark goes fishing at a nearby creek. The posse finds the robbers and Lucas wings one of them and his horse bolts. Mark finds the horse and takes him home. When Lucas returns he finds the stolen money and takes it to the sheriff. After he leaves the robbers come by looking for a horse and Mark stalls them until Lucas returns.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
A Score to Settle
The Rifleman / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Lucas McCain [The Rifleman]; Mark McCain; Marshal Micah Torrence
- Synopsis:
- Three Reagan brothers come to town to seek revenge on Lucas McCain for a long-ago incident that left their father crippled.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
[The Bluff]
The Rifleman / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Lucas McCain [The Rifleman]; Mark McCain
- Synopsis:
- Two men get the drop on Lucas McCain for testifying against their brother and sending him to jail. McCain challenges them to start shooting and the men back down, dropping their guns. McCain's son then comes by, with some cartridges for his empty rifle.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
The Flip Special
[The Rifleman] / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle ?
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; fact
- Characters:
- Lucas McCain [The Rifleman] (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Facts about Winchester rifles and Lucas McCain's specially-made Winchester, the "Flip Special".
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Table of Contents
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1.
[Preview]
The Rifleman -
2.
Outlaw's Pony
The Rifleman -
3.
A Score to Settle
The Rifleman -
4.
[The Bluff]
The Rifleman -
5.
The Flip Special
[The Rifleman]
- Jim Van Dore
- 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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