(May-July 1955)
Dell,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Editing
- George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Issue Notes
Copyright, 1955, by Gene Autry.
Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
He found Lost Canyon -- full of wolves!
Gene Autry's Champion / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sam Savitt (painting); ? (photo)
- Inks
- Sam Savitt (painting); ? (photo)
- Colors
- Sam Savitt (painting); ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- animal; western-frontier
- Characters
- Champion (horse); Gene Autry (photo)
- Synopsis
- Champion leaps across a wagon wreck.
Indexer Notes
Painted cover by Sam Savitt verified by the painter himself and listed in Illustration Magazine No.4 page 17. The checklist is part of the article on Sam Savitt. The checklist was completed by Leo Pando with help from the late Robert W. Phillips.
Dell Comic: A Pledge to Parents
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Photo: 1954 Distinguished Achievement Awart to President of Dell Publishing from American Legion. Dell Pledge to Parents: "only clean and wholesome juvenile entertainment"
Champion and the Young Rustlers
Gene Autry's Champion / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- Champion#18-555
- Genre
- animal; western-frontier
- Characters
- Champion [Champ] (horse); Ricky West; Rebel (dog)
- Synopsis
- Two young horse rustlers are working High Valley where Champion watches over the purebred stock. The rustlers capture Champion. Rebel frees Champion. Champion rescues Ricky from a cougar. Ricky captures the thieves, and Champ frees the colts.
Indexer Notes
Written as "Champion and the Raiders of High Valley."
The art is clearly the work of Morris Gollub, the lead characters of Uncle Smokey, Ricky and the dog Rebel are all drawn in typical Gollub style. Compare to Issue No 5 of this series.
Champion Finds the Lobos of Lost Canyon
Gene Autry's Champion / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- animal; western-frontier
- Characters
- Champion [Champ] (horse); Ricky West; Rebel (dog)
- Synopsis
- After the train jumps the track, Ricky and Champion wander lost, and encounter horse thieves.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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He found Lost Canyon -- full of wolves!
Gene Autry's Champion -
1.
Dell Comic: A Pledge to Parents
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Champion and the Young Rustlers
Gene Autry's Champion -
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Champion Finds the Lobos of Lost Canyon
Gene Autry's Champion
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Gregory Fischer
- R. Lavon Loftin
- David Porta
- Richard Richmond
- Ramon Schenk
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