Four Color
#1045 - Restless Gun
(November 1959-January 1960)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1959-10-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "RESTLESS GUN, No. 1045." Code number is R.G.O.S. #1045-5911. Copyright 1959 by Window-Glen Production Company. Third of five Restless Gun Four Colors. Based on the 1957-59 NBC TV series "The Restless Gun." The indexed page count is 37 because sequences #5 & 6 are both back covers, depending on which printed version you have. On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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The Little Giant
Restless Gun / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Vint Bonner's better judgement warned him not to get mixed up in the personal affairs of the town's blacksmith...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Vint Bonner (photo of John Payne)
- Synopsis
- Preview of first story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two photos with typeset text.
The Little Giant
Restless Gun / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One morning, as Vint Bonner rides the trail toward the town of Rock River...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Vint Bonner
- Synopsis
- Vint Bonner helps Danny Barnes learn to shoot a rifle so that he can join his father and other men on a hunt for a cattle-killing mountain lion.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Gunfight Trail
Restless Gun / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gunshots! Tom could be in trouble!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Vint Bonner
- Synopsis
- Vint Bonner visits an old friend, Tom Temple, who has taken a job as a guard on a freight company. When his gun jams during a stage hold-up, Temple is suspected of being part of the gang and Bonner has to help prove his innocence.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Double-Duty Guns
Restless Gun / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Vint Bonner's unique weapon, which serves doubly as a pistol and rifle, has seen him through many scapes.
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Vint Bonner (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Facts about guns designed to be used for dual purposes, like Vint Bonner's pistol that converts into a rifle.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset 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 Little Giant]
Restless Gun -
1.
The Little Giant
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2.
The Little Giant
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3.
Gunfight Trail
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4.
Double-Duty Guns
Restless Gun -
5.
Range Enemies...Large and Small
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6.
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This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Brian Stewart
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