Four Color
#1215 - Tales of Wells Fargo
(October-December 1961)
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-07-13
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Chase Craig ? (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
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Thunder Over Lost Gulch / Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils
- Russ Heath; ? (photo)
- Inks
- Russ Heath; ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson)
- Synopsis
- Previews of the stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of each story. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch
Tales of Wells Fargo / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Hardie
- Synopsis
- A disguised Hardie uses an old peddler's wagon to get supplies through an outlaw gang's blockade to miners in a remote gulch. A case of dynamite is part of Hardie's plan to get gold past the outlaws on the way out.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on January 11, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Forerunners of Wells Fargo
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Major Chorpenning; Captain Woodward
- Synopsis
- The trials of Major Chorpenning and Captain Woodward as they fulfill a contract to carry mail between Sacramento, Calif., and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the early 1850s.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title and compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Steven Grant challenged the original indexer crediting of the pencils to Russ Heath via the GCD Error List (20 February 2009). Nick Caputo agrees on Sekowsky pencils and credits Frank Giacoia on inks.
Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Hardie
- Synopsis
- Hardie trails a bandit who caused a stage to go off the side of a high mountain trail, killing the driver.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on January 13, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title and compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
The "Lost Dutchman" Mine
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- The story of the "Lost Dutchman" mine in Arizona.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils credit from Steven Grant via the GCD Error List (20 February 2009); the original indexer credited Russ Heath.
Speaking of Brands
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Some copies have an ad in place of this sequence. See Sequence 7.
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[Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch]
Tales of Wells Fargo -
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Thunder Over Lost Gulch / Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo -
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Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch
Tales of Wells Fargo -
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Forerunners of Wells Fargo
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Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo -
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The "Lost Dutchman" Mine
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Speaking of Brands
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