The Rider
#3
(August 1957)
Farrell,
1957 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1957
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Four Star Comic Corp.
- Brand
- Ajax; A Farrell Publication
- Editing
- Ruth Roche (editor); S. M. Iger (art editor)
[no title indexed]
Lone Rider / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Too quiet around here...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Rider [The Lone Rider]
- Reprints
in 
Very Private Property
Lone Rider / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Rider [The Lone Rider]; Jessie; Billy; Big Paul
- Synopsis
- Some of The Rider's friends find uranium to mine, but Big Paul runs off to stake a claim before anyone else can.
- Reprints
Boot Tracks and Bullets
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Larry Ford; Swish
- Reprints
-
from The Lone Rider (Farrell, 1951 series) #25 (May 1955) - in The Gunfighters (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #18 (1964)
-
Indexer Notes
First page appears before last page of previous story, second page appears later in the issue. No color on either page.
The Time of the Hunt
Swift Arrow / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Swift Arrow; Jed; Gray Elk
- Synopsis
- Swift Arrow's tribe can't find the buffalo, so Swift Arrow goes out and finds that white men have slaughtered many of them. He tracks the white men down.
- Reprints
- from The Lone Rider (Farrell, 1951 series) #22 (October-November 1954) [retitled]
- in The Gunfighters (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #18 (1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Horned Fury!"
A Date with Effie
public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; advocacy; teen
- Synopsis
- Betty becomes jealous when she finds out Stan has a date with Effie instead of volunteering. Stan get the last laugh when he introduces Betty to Effie, a radio system at the hospital where he is now volunteering.
Indexer Notes
Appeared in many DC and Ajax comics from May to September 1957. Appears between pages 2 and 3 of previous sequence. Credits from other indexes on GCD.
The Trouble Tribe!
Lone Rider / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Rider [The Lone Rider]
- Synopsis
- The Rider finds a covered wagon going into dangerous Indian territory.
- Reprints
- from The Lone Rider (Farrell, 1951 series) #2 (June 1951) [retitled]
- in The Gunfighters (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #18 (1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "War Paint."
Don't Fence Him In
Lone Rider / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Rider [The Lone Rider]; Old Hermit Slate; Pete
- Synopsis
- Old Hermit Slate's house is judged to be right on the border between Arizona and New Mexico. A bandit wanted in New Mexico hides in the Arizona side of the house, taunting the law-men who are after him... that is until The Rider gets involved.
- Reprints
- from The Lone Rider (Farrell, 1951 series) #9 (August-September 1952) [retitled]
- in The Gunfighters (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #18 (1964)
-
- Keywords
- Arizona; New Mexico
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Lost Borderline!"
The Rider is mostly called "Mister Rider" or "Great Rider", where the first word appears to be re-lettered. In one panel he is called "Lone Rider".
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Too quiet around here..."]
Lone Rider -
1.
Very Private Property
Lone Rider -
2.
Boot Tracks and Bullets
-
3.
The Time of the Hunt
Swift Arrow -
4.
A Date with Effie
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5.
The Trouble Tribe!
Lone Rider -
6.
Don't Fence Him In
Lone Rider -
7.
Yogi Berra Homers in the 9th
Cloverine Brand Salve
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