Four Color #1202

(July-September 1961)

Whiplash / The Captives (Table of Contents)

Rawhide / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Spiegle; ? (photo)

Inks:

Dan Spiegle; ? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Rowdy Yates (as played by Clint Eastwood, photo); Gil Favor (as played by Eric Fleming, photo)

Synopsis:

Preview of the two main stories in the issue.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Photos and two-panel previews of each story.

Whiplash (Table of Contents)

Rawhide / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Eric Friewald; Robert Schaefer

Pencils:

Dan Spiegle

Inks:

Dan Spiegle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates

Synopsis:

After his son is killed in a gunfight by a trail herder, Jack Morse takes to drinking and gives control of his cattle dip station to a thug who demands an unreasonable charge for using the tick-killing bath. Favor and Yates come up with a plan to force Morse to come to his senses.

Indexer Notes

Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

A Greenhorn Learns the Facts (Table of Contents)

Rawhide / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Spiegle

Inks:

Dan Spiegle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Wishbone; Gil Favor (cameo)

Synopsis:

Wishbone teaches a youngster facts about horses.

The Captives (Table of Contents)

Rawhide / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Eric Friewald; Robert Schaefer

Pencils:

Dan Spiegle

Inks:

Dan Spiegle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates; Wishbone (cameo)

Synopsis:

When the cattle drive has a rest stop by a river, Rowdy Yates takes the opportunity to visit a young lady he met the year before. Meanwhile, a gang fleeing a bank robbery decides to hold up in the hacienda of the woman and her father and Yates is taken captive with the others.

Indexer Notes

Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Cow Country Lingo (Table of Contents)

Rawhide / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Spiegle

Inks:

Dan Spiegle

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

fact; western

Synopsis:

Definitions of four cowboy slang terms: rustle, maverick, buckaroo, and dogie.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. The Rawhide logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear.

New Schwinn Flying Star (Table of Contents)

Schwinn Bicycles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Illustrated ad for Schwinn Flying Star model bicycle for $44.88. Arnold, Schwinn and Company, Chicago, Ill.