Four Color
#1076 - The Rebel
(February-April 1960)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-01-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell TV Adventure
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Chase Craig ? (editor)
Issue Notes
Bad Medicine / Buzzard Bait
The Rebel / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Yuma [The Rebel]
- Synopsis
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Bad Medicine
The Rebel / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Yuma [The Rebel] (introduction)
- Synopsis
- In the summer of 1865, Confederate war veteran Johnny Yuma returns to his small western town. He finds his father, the sheriff, has been killed and the murderers are now running the town. After taking his father's sawed-off shotgun, Yuma concocts a plan that results in the killing of the men who shot his father. Yuma then leaves town, because staying would remind him of his father. He then meets up with the proprietor of a traveling medicine show, who later is framed as a killer by a gang of hoodlums.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on August 18, 1959, under the title "Johnny Yuma Fights Back." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Buzzard Bait
The Rebel / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Yuma [The Rebel]
- Synopsis
- After saving the life of an Apache strung up to die as "buzzard bait," Yuma finds the camp of four hard-bitten gold miners whose mules have been killed by Apaches. The miners put Yuma and his his horse to work crushing ore, but the Apaches return to finish their attack.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on August 27, 1959, under the title "Buzzard Bait." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Hoodlums Went West
The Rebel / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- General overview of the problems old west towns had because they attracted drifters and hoodlums.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on September 10, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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["Johnny Yuma fights an angry mob to save an innocent friend from hanging!"]
The Rebel -
1.
Bad Medicine / Buzzard Bait
The Rebel -
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Bad Medicine
The Rebel -
3.
Buzzard Bait
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4.
Hoodlums Went West
The Rebel -
5.
Five Seconds to Play!
Frisky Fudgie; Kraft Fudgies -
6.
Medicine Show
The Rebel
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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