Four Color
#1138 - The Rebel
(October-December 1960)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-08-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Exciting Adventure
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Black Eagle / Johnny Yuma's Orphan
The Rebel / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky; ? (photo)
- Inks
- Mike Peppe; ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Yuma (photo of Nick Adams)
- Synopsis
- Previews of the stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Black Eagle
The Rebel / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Yuma
- Synopsis
- Three outlaws try to get Johnny Yuma to join them. When he refuses, they become bitter enemies. Yuma goes to a ranch where he finds a teen girl who is badly treated by her uncle and aunt. The outlaws happen upon the ranch and set the rest of the story in motion.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on March 16, 1960. 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).
Johnny Yuma's Orphan
The Rebel / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Yuma
- Synopsis
- Johnny rescues an Apache boy from bullying cowboys, but doesn't know what to do with the boy.
Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script submitted on February 16, 1960. 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).
Quantrill's Raiders
The Rebel / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Jesse James; William Clarke Quantrill
- Synopsis
- Overview of Quantrill's Raiders, a band of Confederate guerrillas, some of whom later became an outlaw gang.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. "The Rebel" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script submitted on April 11, 1960. 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).
Meat Hunters
The Rebel / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- How the railroads provided meat to their track-laying crews in the Old West.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. "The Rebel" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script submitted on April 11, 1960. 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).
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Meat Hunters
The Rebel
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Keith Alan Morgan
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