Four Color
#1300 - The Comancheros
([February-April] 1962)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-11-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- D. J. Arneson (editor)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE COMANCHEROS, No. 1300." No code number. Copyright 1961 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1961 movie "The Comancheros."
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "February-April 1962" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1961 movie "The Comancheros."
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "February-April 1962" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
in 
The Comancheros
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jake Cutter (photo of John Wayne); Paul Regret (photo of Stuart Whitman); Pilar (photo of Ina Balin)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Cast listing and five black and white photos from film.
The Comancheros
comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jake Cutter; Paul Regret; Pilar; Sam Houston
- Synopsis
- After killing a man in a duel in Louisiana, Paul Regret flees to Texas. There he is captured by a Texas Ranger named Jake Cutter. After several escapes and re-captures, Regret saves Cutters' life and is pardoned by Texas President Sam Houston. Cutter and Regret then go undercover to try to break a gang running guns to hostile Comanches.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the movie "The Comancheros." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Comanche
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Edd Ashe ?
- Inks
- Edd Ashe ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Brief history of the Comanche Indians.
- Reprints
-
in Film Classics (Classics/Williams, 1962 series) #507 ([1962]) -
in Filmparaden (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1962 series) #7 ([1962]) [original title: The Comanche]
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Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Text with large illustration. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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The Comancheros
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The Comancheros
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2.
The Comancheros
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3.
The Comanche
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4.
[Texas Rangers]
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5.
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This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- John Censullo
- Pat Conolly
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Stangas
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