Red Ryder Comics #68

(March 1949)

[The Big Ski-Hi Stampede, Part 1] (Table of Contents: 1)

News From Red Ryder Ranch / photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Harman (signed)

Pencils

Fred Harman (signed); Herb Stanger (photos)

Inks

Fred Harman (signed); Herb Stanger (photos)

Letters

Fred Harman (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi-yum!

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Feature continues inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Red Ryder / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

?

Job Number

R.R.C.#68-493

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hear Anita Gay, big girl who get-um lots money, go to school with kids!

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Red Ryder's Corral of Western Lingo by Fred Harman / text article / 2 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Trail Herd

Indexer Notes

Copyright 1949 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. Each panel is about half text, half illustration.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Telecomics; Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? (Telecomics); ? (King of the Royal Mounted)

Pencils

? (Telecomics); ? (King of the Royal Mounted)

Inks

? (Telecomics); ? (King of the Royal Mounted)

Colors

? (Telecomics); ? (King of the Royal Mounted)

Letters

? (Telecomics); ? (King of the Royal Mounted)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's nice of your mom to let us have a party here, Slatsy!

Little Beaver's Chariot Chase (Table of Contents: 5)

Little Beaver text story / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Bill Ely

Inks

Bill Ely

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Po-ko's black eyes sparkled as she stopped her pony before the big poster on the trader's wall.

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois (rhymes with "to voice") writer credit per page 91, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "Little Beaver's Chariot Race. text for Red Ryder Comics #67. Sent August 16, 1948."

Bill Ely art i.d. by David Porta, September 2021.

A typical Du Bois identifier here is the building of a device, and the parts that are involved. A plot that involves engineering: in this case, the wheels of broken bicycles, used for building a chariot; and the coyote tail, dangled in front of the ram's snout, from a string off a stick held by the driver, to make the ram charge.

[Abducted!] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Kiyotee Kids / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Harry Parkhurst (signed as Harry Parks)

Inks

Harry Parkhurst (signed as Harry Parks)

Colors

?

Letters

Harry Parkhurst (signed as Harry Parks)

Job Number

R.R.C. #68 p.28

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well water struck on Andy Packer's dry claim draws a crowd from the new gold camp in Crowfoot Canyon.

Characters

Andy Packer; prospectors (pictured, some with dialogue); Sandy Rivers; Ted Lucas (as Ted); Billy Haynes (pictured only); Silk Selden; Sandy's horse (pictured only); Nipper (Andy's horse); three Selden men (pictured only); Oakey (of Selden's men)

Synopsis

Sandy rides toward home to bring grub for the boys at the claim where they have just found color. She stops to check on Nipper in his sling and replenish his hay rack and water. Meanwhile, Selden having observed the kids' strike, abducts the boys. Manacled with Andy and Billy by Selden and gang, Ted writes a note threatening Selden if he doesn't set the boys free, signing it "The Kiyotee," and sending it floating up outside the cabin through the chimney, pushed aloft by the hot air of the fire in the hearth.

Keywords

child abduction; prospecting

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois (rhymes with "to voice") writer credit per page 91, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "The Kyotee Kids. 6p. For Red Ryder Comics #68. Sent July 14, 1948."

Averaging 7 panels per page: 6-8-7-7-7-7. Signed Harry Parks in the last panel. Page code (or job number) on second page of story, "R.R.C. #68 p.28," which is the 28th page of the comic, excluding the cover page (so, 28th page of newsprint).

Didacticism, a Du Bois identifier, appears here in: the engineering of the sling and manger for Nipper, a building project from last episode; the panning of gold using water to wash the silt from the pan, leaving the heavier gold at the pan's bottom; and the physics of hot air rising.

[The Big Ski-Hi Stampede, Part 2] (Table of Contents: 7)

News From Red Ryder Ranch / photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Harman (signed)

Pencils

Herb Stanger (photos)

Inks

Herb Stanger (photos)

Letters

Fred Harman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Young folks crowd around Little Beaver and me for this photo, before the big Ski-Hi Stampede.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Feature continued from inside front cover.

Fast Moving Adventure (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)