Four Color
#895 - Wagon Train
(March 1958)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "WAGON TRAIN, No. 895." Code number is W.T.O.S. #895-583. Copyright 1958 by Revue Productions, Inc. Based on the 1957-65 NBC/ABC TV series "Wagon Train." First of three Wagon Train Four Color issues.
[no title indexed]
Wagon Train / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Wagons Roll On...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Major Seth Adams (photo of Ward Bond); Flint McCullough (photo of Robert Horton)
- Synopsis
- Short introduction to series.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos, one illustration, and brief typeset text.
Fury at Blue River
Wagon Train / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Nicholas Firfires
- Inks
- Nicholas Firfires
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Nicholas Firfires
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Major Seth Adams; Flint McCullough
- Synopsis
- Major Adams' wagon train comes under attack by outlaws at a ford at Blue River. An old man, a former marshal, goes by himself to find the outlaw's hideout.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Sioux Ambush
Wagon Train / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Nicholas Firfires
- Inks
- Nicholas Firfires
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Nicholas Firfires
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Major Seth Adams; Flint McCullough
- Synopsis
- A school teacher is forced to bury the textbooks for her school when the wagon train is attacked by a band of renegade Sioux Indians and is forced to flee to the Army fort. The Major and Flint end up accompanying the teacher back to the spot where she buried the books in order to protect her from the Sioux.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Scout
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Duties of the scout for a wagon train.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Wagon Master
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Nicholas Firfires
- Inks
- Nicholas Firfires
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Duties of the wagon master of a wagon train.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Wagon Train -
1.
["The Wagons Roll On..."]
Wagon Train -
2.
Fury at Blue River
Wagon Train -
3.
Sioux Ambush
Wagon Train -
4.
The Scout
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5.
The Wagon Master
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Alan Hutchinson
- Keith Alan Morgan
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