Four Color #1262 [ad] - The Rebel

(December 1961-February 1962)

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The Frightened Town (Table of Contents: 2)

The Rebel / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Mike Sekowsky

Inks

George Roussos ?; Mike Peppe ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Johnny Yuma

Synopsis

Yuma fights off robbers as he takes a stage. When the stage arrives at its destination, a fellow passenger learns that her father, the town's sheriff had been killed three months earlier. The woman had seen one of the bandits' unmasked face and Yuma has to protect her from retribution. Later Yuma overhears a conversation that deepens the mystery regarding the woman's father.

Indexer Notes

Script submitted on March 28, 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). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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Cloud of Danger (Table of Contents: 4)

The Rebel / comic story / 14.5 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Mike Sekowsky

Inks

Frank Giacoia ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Johnny Yuma

Synopsis

Yuma is ambushed by Wolf Yorick during a blizzard and is forced to guide the man to the Big Nugget mining camp. At the camp, Yorick holds a young girl captive to force the miners to give him her weight in gold.

Indexer Notes

Script submitted on April 11, 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). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). The last page is half-story, half-ad. In the non-ad edition, it is a full-page of story.

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Sierra Gold (Table of Contents: 6)

The Rebel / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Mike Sekowsky

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Synopsis

Facts about finding gold in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Sequence has The Rebel logo, but the characters do not appear. Script submitted on April 13, 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). Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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