Four Color
#850 - Buck Jones
(October 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1957
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BUCK JONES, No. 850." Code number is B.J.O.S. #850-5710. Copyright 1957 by Mrs. Odille D. Jones.
Dynamite or Disguise
Buck Jones / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Don Spaulding (painting)
- Inks
- Don Spaulding (painting)
- Colors
- Don Spaulding (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Buck Jones
- Reprints
-
in Texas Ekstranummer (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1959 series) #3a/1964 ([mars] 1964) -
in Aventura (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #354 (20 de octubre de 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Disbeliever
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Possibly factual story of an incident involving Sioux Indians, telegraph lines, and lightning.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Zip-a-tone or Crafttint shading is used, not common in Dell comics. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Dynamite and Disguise
Buck Jones / comic story / 18 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
- Synopsis
- Two men ambush Buck and take his horse, Silver-B, to an outlaw gang's hideout called "Devil's Island", a fortress surrounded by a deep gorge and accessible only by a rock bridge. The outlaws track Buck to a sheriff's office, where they try to kill him but fail and one of the outlaws is captured. Buck disguises himself as the captured outlaw and plans to take a wagon-load of dynamite to blow up the doors to the fortress.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story title is not identical to that on the cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Fast Draw
Buck Jones / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
- Synopsis
- Buck helps Ed Norris, the new sheriff of Pleasant Valley, improve the speed of his draw and gain self-confidence.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story concludes on inside back cover in black and white.
New art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010.
Notice large pointed hooves on running horses, sawtoothed mane, and faces and hats skewed to the right. All Edson clues.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Dynamite or Disguise
Buck Jones -
1.
The Disbeliever
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2.
Dynamite and Disguise
Buck Jones -
3.
Fast Draw
Buck Jones -
4.
Banner of the Cow Country
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
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