Four Color
#1287 - Man from Wells Fargo
(February-April 1962)
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-12-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Montezuma's Pay-Off / Money in the Coffin
Man from Wells Fargo / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils
- Alberto Giolitti; ? (photo)
- Inks
- Alberto Giolitti; ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson)
- Synopsis
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories. Script submitted on June 8, 1961. 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).
Montezuma's Payoff
Man from Wells Fargo / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Hardie
- Synopsis
- While tracking stage robber Chris Demaray, Hardie is captured by Demaray and a band of Ute Indians. Demaray leads Hardie to a forbidden area to try to find enough Aztec treasure to pay off Wells Fargo for the stage robberies.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on May 29, 1961. 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).
Aztec Gold in Southern Utah
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A treasure hunt for Aztec gold in Kanab, Utah, in the early 1920s.
- Reprints
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in Buffalo (Romanforlaget, 1968 series) #3/1968 ([28. august] 1968)
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Indexer Notes
Script submitted on June 8, 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).
Money in the Coffin
Man from Wells Fargo / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Hardie
- Synopsis
- After two trains are robbed in the same general area, Hardie is assigned to guard a shipment of gold and silver that is due to pass through the same area.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on May 26, 1961. 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).
Montezuma's Legendary Treasure
Man from Wells Fargo / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Legends of the hiding places of the gold of Aztec Emperor Montezuma.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on June 8, 1961. 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). Sequence has "Man from Wells Fargo" logo on it, but no characters appear.
Famous Train Robberies
Man from Wells Fargo / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- An account of the robbery of a Union Pacific train in 1889.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Script submitted on June 8, 1961, under the title "Famous Train Robberies - Wilcox Way." 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). Sequence has "Man from Wells Fargo" logo on it, but no characters appear.
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[Montezuma's Pay-Off]
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Montezuma's Pay-Off / Money in the Coffin
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Montezuma's Payoff
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Aztec Gold in Southern Utah
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Money in the Coffin
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Montezuma's Legendary Treasure
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Famous Train Robberies
Man from Wells Fargo
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Alan Hutchinson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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