(October 1953)
Dell,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic [sans serif]
- Editing
- George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
The Ravening Pack
Roy Rogers / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Pat Brady; Antelope Man; Mosi The Crazy One;
- Synopsis
- A whole family of Navajos have been killed by a crazy Indian. He has fled to the Tohindi cave dwellings, and the Indians are afraid to search for him there. They have come to Deputy Sheriff Roy Rogers and Pat Brady for help.
- Reprints
-
in Silver Star Western Library (Yaffa / Page, 1974 series) #2 ([December 1974] ?)
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010
Burro Business
Roy Rogers / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Bullet (dog); Bart Madden; Jug Hacker
- Synopsis
- Roy and Bart are out tracking wild burros who may have killed a man, but it turns out the killer is human.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010
Bullet meets a Test
Roy Rogers / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Bullet (dog); Paul Rocco; Sheriff Bing; "Slick" Slade Chicklaw; Luigi Rocco
- Synopsis
- Rocco is taking some money home from the bank, and borrows Bullet to accompany him. His son has been kidnapped.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This story is similar to several Roy stories credited to the team Al McKimson, Randy Steffen, Alvarado and Andrew Bensen by Robert W Phillips.
See Roy Rogers #24 Silver Spider, #25 Trades Lead, #26 Jerkline Feud, #27 Mustang Mountain, and #28 Apache Blood.
The art may vary a bit since several of them worked on the same story (also by R W Phillips)
Al McKimson was a pen name for several artists. First the brothers Chuck and Tom McKimson. Others were Pete Alvarado, John Ushler, Randy Steffen, Andrew Bensen, Hi Mankin, Mike Arens, Alex Toth.
Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010.
Jeremy's Promise
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jeremy Coe; Uncle Bill
- Synopsis
- Jeremy and Uncle Bill find gold in Grand Canyon. Bill is shot in ambush, and before he dies, he makes Jeremy promise to use the gold to go to college.
- Reprints
-
in Roy Rogers (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1954 series) #16/1955 ([september] 1955)
-
[no title indexed]
Chuckwagon Charley's Tales / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Spunky and the Mountain Lion
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Chuckwagon Charley; Pete; Pat; Snoofy (dog); Spunky (dog)
- Synopsis
- Charley tells of the time he and Spunky chased a mountain lion.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010
The Tonto Basin War
text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- August Lenox (signed)
- Inks
- August Lenox (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- First line:"Range wars were not uncommon in the old West of yesterday."
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Roy Rogers -
1.
American Flag Ring!
Dell Comics -
2.
The Ravening Pack
Roy Rogers -
3.
Burro Business
Roy Rogers -
4.
Bullet meets a Test
Roy Rogers -
5.
Jeremy's Promise
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6.
["Spunky and the Mountain Lion"]
Chuckwagon Charley's Tales -
7.
The Tonto Basin War
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8.
Hey Kids!
Schwinn Bikes -
9.
Genuine Roy Rogers Button
Post's Grape-Nuts Flakes
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Steinar Ådland
- Peter Croome
- Thomas Johnson
- Dick Sabo
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