Four Color #1216

(September-November 1961)

The Flaming Hills / The Oasis (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils:

? (photo); Ray Bailey

Inks:

? (photo); Ray Bailey

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Chuck Martin (as played by Kenneth Tobey, photo); P.T. Moore (as played by Craig Hill, photo)

Synopsis:

Previews of two stories in the issue.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of two stories in the issue. Script credit from Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title." Art identification by Merlin Haas (December 14, 2010).

The Flaming Hills (Table of Contents)

Whirlybirds / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils:

Ray Bailey

Inks:

Ray Bailey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure

Characters:

Chuck Martin; P.T. Moore; Helen Carter

Synopsis:

While hunting an escaped convict, the Whirlybirds have to contend with a forest fire that the convict has started.

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title." Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur. Jr., Alan Hutchinson, Hames Ware, Steinar Ådland, and Merlin Haas (December 14, 2010).

The Conquering Fury (Table of Contents)

filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils:

Ray Bailey

Inks:

Ray Bailey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

Synopsis:

How a forest fire might start, ways it can spread, what fire-fighters do to stop it, and how it might be extinguished by fire-fighters or by nature.

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title." Art identification by Merlin Haas (December 14, 2010).

The Oasis (Table of Contents)

Whirlybirds / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils:

Ray Bailey

Inks:

Ray Bailey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure

Characters:

Chuck Martin; P.T. Moore

Synopsis:

The Whirlybirds take a prospector to an isolated oasis in the desert mountains, only to find that he has no intention of letting them leave.

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title." Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur. Jr., Alan Hutchinson, Hames Ware, Steinar Ådland, and Merlin Haas (December 14, 2010).

The Many-Purposed Helicopter (Table of Contents)

Whirlybirds / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils:

Ray Bailey

Inks:

Ray Bailey

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

Synopsis:

Facts about commercial uses of helicopters.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white. The Whirlybirds logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script credit from Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title." Art identification by Merlin Haas (December 14, 2010)

The Helicopter in War (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils:

Ray Bailey ?

Inks:

Ray Bailey ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

Synopsis:

5 bordered panels with educational captions.

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Script credit from Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title." This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 7.

204 Revolutionary Soldiers (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Russ Heath [as RH] (signed)

Inks:

Russ Heath [as RH] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeseet

Indexer Notes

Back cover; Illustrated ad for 204 plastic Revolutionary War toy soldiers from Carle Place, Long Island, N.Y. This ad replaces Sequence 6 in some copies.