(February-April 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 "NATIONAL VELVET, No. 1312." Code number is N.V.O.S. #1312-621. Copyright 1961 by Metro-Goldwn-Mayer, Inc. Continues as National Velvet #01-556-207 (May-July 1962).
The Tank Trap / Attacked
National Velvet / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Sparling
- Inks:
- Jack Sparling
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- Animal; children
- Characters:
- Velvet Brown (as played by Lori Martin, photo); King (horse)
- 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 Tank Trap
National Velvet / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Sparling
- Inks:
- Jack Sparling
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Animal
- Characters:
- Velvet Brown; Donald Brown; Herbert Brown; Edwina Brown; Martha Brown; King (horse)
- Synopsis:
- When a water pond is dug on the Brown ranch, it turns out to be a quicksand trap for King. Donald, Velvet's little brother, manages to get himself caught in a blazing truck while trying to help King escape.
Blue Norther
National Velvet / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Sparling
- Inks:
- Jack Sparling
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Animal
- Characters:
- Velvet Brown; Donald Brown; Herbert Brown; Edwina Brown; Martha Brown; Mi Taylor; King (horse)
- Synopsis:
- Velvet's father and his farm hand receive leg injuries while retrieving a stray cow during a blizzard and Velvet and King have to rescue them.
Attacked!
National Velvet / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Sparling
- Inks:
- Jack Sparling
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Animal
- Characters:
- Velvet Brown; Donald Brown; Herbert Brown; Edwina Brown; Martha Brown; King (horse)
- Synopsis:
- While out riding, King and Velvet are attacked by a stallion that jumps a fence. After King fights off the stallion, the Browns are sued for damages by the stallion's vindictive owner, who wants King killed.
The Great Blizzard of 1886
National Velvet / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Sparling
- Inks:
- Jack Sparling
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
- Synopsis:
- Anecdotes about the Great Blizzard of 1886, which ravaged South Dakota.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. The National Velvet logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear.
Fighting Stallions
National Velvet / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Sparling
- Inks:
- Jack Sparling
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Animal
- Synopsis:
- Description of the fighting techniques used by stallions.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. The National Velvet logo is on the story, but no characters appear.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
The Tank Trap / Attacked
National Velvet -
2.
The Tank Trap
National Velvet -
3.
Blue Norther
National Velvet -
4.
Attacked!
National Velvet -
5.
The Great Blizzard of 1886
National Velvet -
6.
Fighting Stallions
National Velvet
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Karl Wilcox
- Alan Hutchinson
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- 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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