Four Color
#1159 - 77 Sunset Strip
(February-April 1961)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-11-22
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Mystery
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
[The Money Wagon]
77 Sunset Strip / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jeff Spencer (photo of Roger Smith); Stuart Bailey (photo of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.); Kookie (photo of Edd Byrnes)
The Money Wagon / The Night Visitor
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jeff Spencer (photo of Roger Smith); Stuart Bailey (photo of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.); Kookie (photo of Edd Byrnes)
- Synopsis
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories in the issue. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Money Wagon
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Alex Toth (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Toth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Alex Toth
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Stuart Bailey; Jeff Spencer; Kookie
- Synopsis
- Kookie buys an old car to look more sophisticated, but the car attracts unwelcome attention from some hoods who want to steal it.
- Reprints
in 
in Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Night Visitor
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Alex Toth (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Toth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Alex Toth
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Stuart Bailey; Jeff Spencer; Kookie
- Synopsis
- A young man is accused of murdering his boss. He stumbles across Bailey and Spencer's office and tells his story. The pair take him to the police, then start investigating to see if they can find the real murderer.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Clues To the Missing
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Stuart Bailey (cameo)
- Synopsis
- How personal habits help investigators find missing persons.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Kookie's Quandary
77 Sunset Strip / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Kookie
- Synopsis
- Kookie pretends that he's a detective in order to impress a girl, but later she meets him at his real job--parking cars.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 6.
My Christmas Gift to You...
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Ad for Daisy Air Rifles. Model No. 99 for $14.95; Model No. 97 for $9.95; Model #25 for $9.95; and Model No. 179 for $7.95 are depicted. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Rogers, Ark. This ad replaces Sequence 5 in some copies.
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[The Money Wagon]
77 Sunset Strip -
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The Money Wagon / The Night Visitor
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The Money Wagon
77 Sunset Strip -
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The Night Visitor
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4.
Clues To the Missing
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5.
Kookie's Quandary
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6.
My Christmas Gift to You...
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- John Censullo
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Tristan Lapoussière
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Steven Rowe
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