Roy Rogers Comics #3

(March 1948)

[Roy Rogers and Trigger] (Table of Contents: 1)

Roy Rogers / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Roy Rogers (photo); Trigger (photo)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover: B&W candid-like photo shows Roy petting Trigger.

Roy Rogers in Death Warrant for Five (Table of Contents: 2)

Roy Rogers / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Albert Micale

Inks

Albert Micale

Colors

?

Letters

?

Synopsis

Roy receives kiss from lady in text, but this is omitted in artwork. Trigger takes a bow.

Indexer Notes

Submitted by Du Bois, June 11, 1947. Du Bois, called the "King of the Comic Book Writers", author of thousands of stories, traveled extensively over the West, soaking up culture, history, "on assignment"; was known for writing educational comics stories.

The Martyr of Abilene (Table of Contents: 3)

Great Lawmen of the Old West / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Albert Micale

Inks

Albert Micale

Colors

?

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

These are typically two-page stories, text with one-two illustrations.
Copyrighted in name of Oscar Lebeck.

[Red Flame, the Wild Horse King, Episode 3] (Table of Contents: 4)

Chuckwagon Charley's Tales / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Harry Parkhurst

Inks

Harry Parkhurst

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Charley; Pat; Pete; Red Flame; Ed Banks; Jimmie Banks; range cattle; cow

Synopsis

Jimmie operates, and nurses Red Flame back to life with cow milk, then rides him home to the ranch.

Indexer Notes

Written to be illustrated as 8 6-panel pages in Animal Comics. Moving the series from the canceled Animal Comics to the new Roy Rogers Comics entailed a 2-page reduction in space allotted to the feature. The script editor sends it to the art editor (that's how Du Bois described the Western Publishing set-up in his ERB-Zine interview) with instructions for it to be illustrated in 6 pages but without panel reduction, hence there are 6 8-panel pages.

[Trigger] (Table of Contents: 5)

Roy Rogers / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Trigger

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover: B&W photo of Trigger.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Roy Rogers / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Colors

? (photo)

Characters

Roy Rogers (photo)

Indexer Notes

Back cover: Color, outdoor shot, posed-for-comics, of Roy, lariat in hand, about to rope something. This shot belongs to series from which several were used for comics covers.