Comet
#170
(October 20 1951)
Amalgamated Press,
1949 Series
- Price
- 2d [0-0-2 GBP]
- Pages
- 8
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1951-10-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- ?
The Return of Tarzan
Tarzan / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Tarzan; Nikolai Rokoff
- Reprints
- An abridged version of the E.R.B. book.
The Cowboy and the Indians
Gene Autry / text story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gene Autry
Indexer Notes
Movie adaptation. Continued on page 7.
Screen Scrapbook
text article / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Patrick Nicolle (signed)
- Inks
- Patrick Nicolle (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ?
Indexer Notes
Plugs for newly released movies, artist's portraits of the stars, each with a little joke.
[no title indexed]
Tough Tex / comic story / 0.8 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Helping out at the zoo
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Tough Tex; A variety of unfortunate animals
Look Danny! Help the Lord Mayor!
Deed-a-Day Danny / comic story / 0.4 page
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Danny; Lord Mayor; Rajah of Ja-Ja
Indexer Notes
Deed-A-Day Danny, a boy scout, is set a task each week by the scout master by means of a note, routinely ending in mayhem.
"Decorating"
Scamp, Our Happy Hound / comic story / 0.3 page
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Scamp; Scamp's Master
[no title indexed]
Mr. Busybody / comic story / 0.2 page
- Script
- Denis Gifford (signed)
- Pencils
- Denis Gifford (signed)
- Inks
- Denis Gifford (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Denis Gifford (signed)
- Editing
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bird's nesting
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Mr. Busybody
Indexer Notes
For some reason, Denis Gifford was permitted to sign his work.
[no title indexed]
Shorty the Deputy Sheriff / text story / 0.3 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Taking care of myself
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Shorty; Sheriff; Twist-ter-neck Ted
The Vanished Wagon Train
Kit Carson / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Kit Carson; Lucas Meyer
Barry Ford's True Tales of the Wild West
Buffalo Bill Cody / text story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Buffalo Bill Cody
The Cowboy and the Indians
Gene Autry / text story / 0.25 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gene Autry
Indexer Notes
Continued from page 3.
The Last Outpost
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Vance Britton; Jeb Britton
- Synopsis
- Two brothers at odds due to the civil war have to band together to fight the Apaches.
Indexer Notes
Movie adaptation with Ronald Reagan (Paramount, 1951 aka The Cavalry Charge). The artist is completely unfamiliar, so this may be a US reprint if such stories were ever done.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Horse riding"]
Claude and Cuthbert -
1.
The Return of Tarzan
Tarzan -
2.
The Cowboy and the Indians
Gene Autry -
3.
Screen Scrapbook
-
4.
["Helping out at the zoo"]
Tough Tex -
5.
Look Danny! Help the Lord Mayor!
Deed-a-Day Danny -
6.
"Decorating"
Scamp, Our Happy Hound -
7.
["Bird's nesting"]
Mr. Busybody -
8.
["Taking care of myself "]
Shorty the Deputy Sheriff -
9.
The Vanished Wagon Train
Kit Carson -
10.
Barry Ford's True Tales of the Wild West
Buffalo Bill Cody -
11.
The Cowboy and the Indians
Gene Autry -
12.
Sammy Shuteye Does a Tidy Bit
-
13.
The Last Outpost
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- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- William Ford
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jim Van Dore
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