(March-May 1962)
- 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 "RIPCORD, No. 1294." Code number is RIPCORD O.S. #1294-622. Copyright 1962 by ZIV-United Artists, Inc. Based on the 1961-1963 "Ripcord" TV series.
Ripcord
Ripcord / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (painted); ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (painted); ? (photos)
- Colors:
- ? (painted)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- Adventure
- Characters:
- Ted McKeever (as played by Larry Pennell, photo); Jim Buckley (as played by Ken Curtis, photo)
Indexer Notes
Cover includes two black and white photo insets of the main characters.
The Bottomless Jump / Dangerous Dive
Ripcord / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ray Bailey; ? (photo)
- Inks:
- Ray Bailey; ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- Adventure
- Characters:
- Ted McKeever (as played by Larry Pennell, photo); Jim Buckley (as played by Ken Curtis, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of two stories in the issue.
The Bottomless Jump
Ripcord / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ray Bailey
- Inks:
- Ray Bailey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- Adventure
- Characters:
- Ted McKeever; Jim Buckley
- Synopsis:
- McKeever and Buckley rescue a man in a lifeboat and become involved in breaking up a gold-smuggling operation.
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
The Dangerous Dive
Ripcord / comic story / 15 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ray Bailey
- Inks:
- Ray Bailey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- Adventure
- Characters:
- Ted McKeever; Jim Buckley
- Synopsis:
- McKeever and Buckley skydive to rescue two climbers stranded on a mountain peak.
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Skydiving
Ripcord / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ray Bailey
- Inks:
- Ray Bailey
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- How skydivers control their freefall.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. The Ripcord logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
History of Parachuting
Ripcord / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ray Bailey
- Inks:
- Ray Bailey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- The history of parachuting.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. The Ripcord logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Table of Contents
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1.
The Bottomless Jump / Dangerous Dive
Ripcord -
2.
The Bottomless Jump
Ripcord -
3.
The Dangerous Dive
Ripcord -
4.
Skydiving
Ripcord -
5.
History of Parachuting
Ripcord
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas
- 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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