(October-December 1961)
- Price:
- 0.15 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "TALES OF WELLS FARGO, No. 1215." Code number is WELLS F. O.S. #1215-6110. Copyright 1961 by Overland Productions, Inc.
Thunder Over Lost Gulch / Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- ? (photo); Russ Heath
- Inks:
- ? (photo); Russ Heath
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- 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
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- 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
filler / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; fact
- 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 / 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).
Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo / comic story / 15 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- 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 / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
The Lost Dutchman Mine
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
- 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
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath ?
- Inks:
- Russ Heath ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
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.
Official Huck Hound Club Special Membership Offer!
Kellogg's Corn Flakes / advertisement / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Characters:
- Yogi Bear (cameo); Huckleberry Hound (cameo); Pixie (cameo); Dixie (cameo); Mr. Jinks
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Ad for the Huck Hound Club sponsored by Kellogg's Corn Flakes breakfast cereal. Mail-in coupon to be sent with 15 cents and one boxtop. This ad replaces Sequence 6 on some copies.
Table of Contents
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1.
Thunder Over Lost Gulch / Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo -
2.
Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch
Tales of Wells Fargo -
3.
Forerunners of Wells Fargo
-
4.
Brand of the Spur
Tales of Wells Fargo -
5.
The Lost Dutchman Mine
-
6.
Speaking of Brands
-
7.
Official Huck Hound Club Special Membership Offer!
Kellogg's Corn Flakes
- Katie
- 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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