Bone #2 - The Great Cow Race

(August 2005)

Chapter One: The Spring Fair (Table of Contents: 1)

Bone / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker (credited)

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Characters

Thorn; Fone Bone; Smiley Bone; Phoney Bone; Lucius; Gran'ma Ben

Synopsis

Bone and Thorn get in an argument at the Spring Fair. Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone put their scam for betting on the Cow Race into action.

Reprints

• from Bone (Cartoon Books, 1991 series) #7 (December 1992)

Chapter Two: The Cave (Table of Contents: 2)

Bone / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker (credited)

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Characters

Fone Bone; Phoney Bone; Smiley Bone; Red Dragon; Thorn

Synopsis

Bone confronts Phoney Bone on why the Rat Creatures are looking for him but no answers are revealed. Thorn begins to remember some of her past.

Reprints

• from Bone (Cartoon Books, 1991 series) #8 (February 1993)

Chapter Three: The Mystery Cow (Table of Contents: 3)

Bone / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker (credited)

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Characters

Thorn; Fone Bone; Smiley Bone; Phoney Bone; Gran'ma Ben; Lucius; Ted the Bug; Rat Creatures

Synopsis

Phoney Bone's scheme to get folks to bet on the Mystery Cow in the race is in full swing. Fone Bone is attacked by Rat Creatures.

Reprints

• from Bone (Cartoon Books, 1991 series) #9 (July 1993)

Chapter Four: The Great Cow Race (Table of Contents: 4)

Bone / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker (credited)

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Characters

Smiley Bone; Phoney Bone; Lucius; Thorn; Fone Bone; Gran'ma Ben

Synopsis

The Great Cow Race is run, but Rat Creatures interfere with the race.

Reprints

• from Bone (Cartoon Books, 1991 series) #10 (September 1993)

Chapter Five: Lonesome Road (Table of Contents: 5)

Bone / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker (credited)

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Characters

Thorn; Fone Bone; Lucius; Phoney Bone; Gran'ma Ben; Smiley Bone; Red Dragon; Hooded One; Rat Creatures

Synopsis

Gran'ma Ben and Lucius take the Thorn and the Bones back to Gran'ma's house after the attack on the Cow Race.

Reprints

• from Bone (Cartoon Books, 1991 series) #11 (December 1993)

Possum Interlude (Table of Contents: 6)

Bone / text story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Chapter Six: Up on the Roof (Table of Contents: 7)

Bone / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Smith (credited)

Pencils

Jeff Smith (credited)

Inks

Jeff Smith (credited)

Colors

Steve Hamaker (credited)

Letters

Jeff Smith (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey! Smiley!

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural; adventure

Characters

Smiley Bone; Lucius

Reprints

• from Wizard Presents: Bone (Cartoon Books; Wizard, 1995 series) #13 1/2 (January 1995)

Indexer Notes

This issue fits between issues #13 and #14 of the Cartoon Books series but is placed between #11 and #12 in the One Volume Edition (and in this edition).