(December 1961 - February 1962)
- Price:
- 0.15 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- 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 "RAWHIDE, No. 1261." Code number is RAWHIDE O.S. #1261-6111. Copyright 1961 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Based on the 1959-66 CBS "Rawhide" TV series. Fifth of six Rawhide Four Color issues. This index is for the version with no ads. For the ad version, see the index for Four Color #1261 [ad].
[The Lone Rustler / Hard Knock Trail]
Rawhide / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle; ? (photos)
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle; ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Gil Favor (as played by Eric Fleming, photo); Rowdy Yates (as played by Clint Eastwood, photo)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Previews of the two main stories in this issue. Black and white photos of Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood above two panels from "The Lone Rustler" and one double-wide panel from "Hard Knock Trail," with text underneath each panel. This sequence replaced by a promo for premiums from the Dell Trading Post in the ad edition of this issue.
The Lone Rustler
Rawhide / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Rowdy Yates; Gil Favor; Wishbone
- Synopsis:
- Favor catches a young boy stealing a calf. After lecturing him, he lets him go. Later the boy repays the favor by telling Favor and Yates where three rustlers are hiding.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Hard Knock Trail
Rawhide / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates; Wishbone
- Synopsis:
- Rancher Dave Howard sends his bull-headed son Jim on the trail drive with Favor and Yates in hopes that they'll be able to make a cattleman of him.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Two pages were cut from this story to accomodate a Kool-Aid contest in the ad edition of this issue.
Tribal Trouble
Rawhide / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Wishbone; Rowdy Yates; Gil Favor (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- While returning to camp after getting supplies, Wishbone gives an Indian girl a ride to her camp. She is the chief's daughter and he declares that Wishbone must marry her. A brave challenges Wishbone to combat for the girl's hand. Rowdy tracks Wishbone to the camp and comes up with a plan to get Wishbone away without offending the Indians.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). One half page of this story was cut to accomodate an illustrated ad for Cadet bicycle speedometers in the ad edition of this issue.
Broken Silence
Rawhide / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; fact
- Synopsis:
- The ability of men to hide from the law by hiring on as help during cattle drives.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Sequence has the Rawhide logo, but the characters do not appear. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Valueless Valuables
Rawhide / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Eric Freiwald ?; Robert Schaefer ?
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western; fact
- Synopsis:
- Longhorn cattle, once so plentiful as to be valueless, become a hot commodity after the Civil War. Food shortages lead to the rise of cattle drives, and the price of longhorn cattle soars.
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Sequence has the Rawhide logo, but the characters do not appear. This sequence replaced by an ad for 204 piece set of plastic Revolutionary soldiers in ad edition of this issue.
Table of Contents
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1.
[The Lone Rustler / Hard Knock Trail]
Rawhide -
2.
The Lone Rustler
Rawhide -
3.
Hard Knock Trail
Rawhide -
4.
Tribal Trouble
Rawhide -
5.
Broken Silence
Rawhide -
6.
Valueless Valuables
Rawhide
- Gary L. Watson
- Merlin Haas
- Alan Hutchinson
- 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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