Four Color #651 - Luke Short's King Colt

(September 1955)

A Pledge to Parents (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

King Colt (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 33.67 pages (report information)

Script

Luke Short (original story); ? (comic adaptation)

Pencils

Everett Kinstler

Inks

Everett Kinstler

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Johnny Hendry; Hank Bender; Turk Hebron; Bailey Blue (villain); Major Fitz (villain)

Synopsis

An old prospector fakes his death after an ambush attempt, which sets in motion a complex struggle for control of Cosmos County as cattleman Major Fitz and corrupt sheriff Baily Blue face off against former deputy Johnny Hendry and his two sidekicks.

Indexer Notes

Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Adapted from the 1937 novel "King Colt" by Luke Short. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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

Zane Grey's Stories of the West / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

He was after a valley of wild horses...

Genre

western-frontier

Indexer Notes

Promo for Dell's Zane Grey's Stories of the West #27. Line-drawn version of the painted cover is depicted. Promo comes at bottom of last interior page, in the middle of the story.