(September 1955)

Western, 1946 Series
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Pages
36
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
K. K. Publications Inc.

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Roy Rogers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photograph)
Inks
? (photograph)
Colors
? (photograph)
Job Number
K.K.G.A#151-559
Genre
western-frontier
Cover Thumbnail for Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #131 [No Ad] Cover Thumbnail for Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (1946 series) #131 [Child Life Shoes] Cover Thumbnail for Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (1946 series) #131 [Sears] Cover Thumbnail for Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (1946 series) #131 [Sundial Shoes]
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Secret of the Rocks (Table of Contents: 2)

Roy Rogers / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Mario Acquaviva
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Roy Rogers; Tad Marcos; Bullet (dog); boar; Trigger (horse); Pat Brady; Dave Marcos
Synopsis
Drought. Mortgage. Dave to sell ranch, locale of a legendary Aztec treasure the earth swallowed up. Roy visits. Tad rides with Roy. Bullet fights a wild boar. Roy, Pat, Tad treed by a herd of angry javelinas. They disperse. Bullet bays a boar in a partly collapsed limestone cavern. They move the big rock. Trigger brings rope. They descend. Bullet pursues the boar into a hole. Roy follows, kills the attacking boar, finds old human bones. Pat finds a flintlock. Tad finds the Aztec gold. Flashlight goes out. Roy replaces batteries. Roof crashes, closes exit. They blast free with cartridge powder.

Indexer Notes

Information on this story from the French magazine Back-Up and Roy Rogers: A Biography... by Robert W. Phillips, as submitted by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, August 2009.
Additional infos come from the John Buscema checklist compiled by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.

28 half pages. Script credit confirmed as per page 115, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1985). Script identification confirmation by David Porta, December 2013.

[activities pages] (Table of Contents: 3)

Roy Rogers / activity / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema (illustrations)
Inks
Mario Acquaviva (illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
page 1: Find the animals hidden in the garden
pages 2-3: Game that 2 or 3 can play; who reaches Roy first wins
page 4: Maze; reach the treasure, avoid the bear

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from the French magazine Back-Up and Roy Rogers: A Biography... by Robert W. Phillips, as submitted by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, August 2009.
Additional infos and art infos come from the John Buscema checklist compiled by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.
Four pages with games and Roy Rogers illos pencilled by John Buscema.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Roy Rogers
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. The Secret of the Rocks
    Roy Rogers
  4. 3. [activities pages]
    Roy Rogers
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
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  • Michel Maillot
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Dave Porta
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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