Four Color #160 - Roy Rogers Comics
(August 1947)

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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
On-sale Date
1947-07-01
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
A Dell Magazine [circle]
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS COMICS, No. 160." Code number is R.R.O.S. #160-478. Copyright 1947 by Roy Rogers. Some information for this index, especially the pinups, is from the late Robert Phillips.

On sale date is date of publication per Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 523.

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Roy Rogers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Roy Rogers (photo)
Synopsis
Posed-for-comics photo shows Roy, six-shooter in hand.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Roy Rogers / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Roy Rogers (photo); Dale Evans (photo)
Synopsis
Pre-1947 candid-like shot of Roy and leading lady Dale Evans, strolling on what is likely a filming location.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover: black and white.

Roy Rogers and the Guns of Mystery Mountain (Table of Contents: 2)

Roy Rogers / comic story / 48 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale; Jesse Marsh (art assist?); Erwin Hess (art assist?)
Inks
Al Micale; Jesse Marsh (art assist?); Erwin Hess (art assist?)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Kay Roberts; Dent Roberts; Larry Parsons
Synopsis
Roy Rogers, Kay Roberts, a rancher's daughter, and Larry Parsons, the ranch's foreman, deal with cattle rustlers who operate out of an abandoned mine.

Indexer Notes

Script submitted by Gaylord Du Bois on September 9, 1946. Albert Micale art credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Robert Phillips said possible Erwin Hess and/or Jesse Marsh contribution on pencils and inks.

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Roy Rogers / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Roy Rogers (photo); Dale Evans (photo); original Trigger (photo)
Synopsis
Pre-1947, posed-for-comics (as if film still) photo shows Roy and Dale on original Trigger in an action scene. Facsimile autograph.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white.

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Roy Rogers / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Roy Rogers (photo); original Trigger (photo)
Synopsis
Publicity photo has Roy sitting on original Trigger.

Indexer Notes

Back cover; Color; horizontal photo.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Roy Rogers
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Roy Rogers
  3. 2. Roy Rogers and the Guns of Mystery Mountain
    Roy Rogers
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Roy Rogers
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Roy Rogers
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