Four Color
#1044 - Have Gun, Will Travel
(October-December 1959)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1959-08-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, No. 1044." Code number is H.G.W.T.O.S. #1044-5910. Copyright 1959 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Third of three Have Gun, Will Travel Four Colors. Continues as Have Gun, Will Travel (Dell, 1960 series) #4 (January-March 1960). Based on the 1957-63 CBS TV series "Have Gun, Will Travel." On-sale date from 1959 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[The Missing Man]
Have Gun, Will Travel / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Paladin (photo of Richard Boone)
- Reprints
in 
The Missing Man / The Reluctant Rustler
Have Gun, Will Travel / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alberto Giolitti; ? (photo)
- Inks
- Alberto Giolitti; ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Paladin (photo of Richard Boone)
- Synopsis
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. One photo. Two panels for each story with text underneath.
The Missing Man
Have Gun, Will Travel / comic story / 16 pages
- Job Number
- H.G.W.T.O.S. #1044-5910
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Would you show Miss Scrapp my card, please? She sent for me!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Paladin
- Synopsis
- A wealthy scrap and junk dealer's daughter defies her father and hires Paladin to find her missing fiancé. Paladin finds him held captive in the midst of a fleet of abandoned ships in San Francisco Bay.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Reluctant Rustler
Have Gun, Will Travel / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Paladin
- Synopsis
- Paladin is summoned to help a lady rancher who is having small numbers of cattle stolen on a regular basis. Paladin recognizes her foreman as a former rustler and has to decide if he's gone straight, as he claims, or is part of the gang of rustlers.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Rustler's Paradise: Hole in the Wall
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Butch Cassidy (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Facts about a remote Wyoming valley used as a hideout by outlaws.
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).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[The Missing Man]
Have Gun, Will Travel -
1.
The Missing Man / The Reluctant Rustler
Have Gun, Will Travel -
2.
The Missing Man
Have Gun, Will Travel -
3.
The Reluctant Rustler
Have Gun, Will Travel -
4.
Rustler's Paradise: Hole in the Wall
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5.
San Francisco's Ships
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Stephen Mitchell
- Keith Alan Morgan
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