(May-July 1960)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell Western Adventure
- 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 TEXAN, No. 1096." Code number is THE TEXAN #1096-605. Copyright 1960 by Rorvic Productions, Inc. and Desilu Productions, Inc. Second and final The Texan Four Color. Based on the 1958-60 CBS TV series "The Texan."
Ambush Alibi
The Texan / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle ?; ? (photo)
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle ?; ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Bill Longley (as played by Rory Calhoun, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Preview of first story in issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and illustration with typeset text.
Ambush Alibi
The Texan / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Bill Longley
- Synopsis:
- Whit and Zane Reagan save Bill Longley's life after a trail accident. Longley finds the two are on the run after being accused of murder when they shot back in self-defense in an ambush. Longley knows the father of the accuser, B.J. Weston, from his service in the Civil War, and goes to talk with him to find out the truth.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Gunfight at Fury Falls
The Texan / comic story / 15 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Bill Longley
- Synopsis:
- Gunman Mark Danson is on his way to Fury Falls to have a shootout with the sheriff for jailing his brother. The townspeople ask Bill Longley for help because the sheriff's vision is failing and he is too proud to step down or ask for help.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Artist in Disguise
The Texan / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Bill Longley
- Synopsis:
- Bill Longley recognizes the new guest at the hotel as an outlaw after seeing a boy draw a beard on a wanted poster.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Imagine "touring" Russia for only 10¢
American Geographical Society / advertisement / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Illustrated ad for "guidebook album" on Russia. Part of "Around the World" program by American Geographical Society, Garden City, N.Y.
Table of Contents
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1.
Ambush Alibi
The Texan -
2.
Ambush Alibi
The Texan -
3.
Gunfight at Fury Falls
The Texan -
4.
Artist in Disguise
The Texan -
5.
Imagine "touring" Russia for only 10¢
American Geographical Society
- 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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