Four Color
#1261 - Rawhide
(December 1961 - February 1962)
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-09-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
This index is for the version with no ads. For the ad version, see the index for Four Color #1261 [ad].
[The Lone Rustler / Hard Knock Trail]
Rawhide / text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan Spiegle; ? (photos)
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle; ? (photos)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gil Favor (photo of Eric Fleming); Rowdy Yates (photo of Clint Eastwood)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Previews of the two main stories in this issue. Black and white photos of Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood above two panels from "The Lone Rustler" and one double-wide panel from "Hard Knock Trail," with text underneath each panel. This sequence replaced by a promo for premiums from the Dell Trading Post in the ad edition of this issue.
The Lone Rustler
Rawhide / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Rowdy Yates; Gil Favor; Wishbone
- Synopsis
- Favor catches a young boy stealing a calf. After lecturing him, he lets him go. Later the boy repays the favor by telling Favor and Yates where three rustlers are hiding.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Hard Knock Trail
Rawhide / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates; Wishbone
- Synopsis
- Rancher Dave Howard sends his bull-headed son Jim on the trail drive with Favor and Yates in hopes that they'll be able to make a cattleman of him.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Two pages were cut from this story to accommodate a Kool-Aid contest in the ad edition of this issue.
Tribal Trouble
Rawhide / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wishbone; Rowdy Yates; Gil Favor (cameo)
- Synopsis
- While returning to camp after getting supplies, Wishbone gives an Indian girl a ride to her camp. She is the chief's daughter and he declares that Wishbone must marry her. A brave challenges Wishbone to combat for the girl's hand. Rowdy tracks Wishbone to the camp and comes up with a plan to get Wishbone away without offending the Indians.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). One half page of this story was cut to accommodate an illustrated ad for Cadet bicycle speedometers in the ad edition of this issue.
Broken Silence
Rawhide / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- The ability of men to hide from the law by hiring on as help during cattle drives.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Sequence has the Rawhide logo, but the characters do not appear. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Valueless Valuables
Rawhide / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Longhorn cattle, once so plentiful as to be valueless, become a hot commodity after the Civil War. Food shortages lead to the rise of cattle drives, and the price of longhorn cattle soars.
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Sequence has the Rawhide logo, but the characters do not appear. This sequence replaced by an ad for 204 piece set of plastic Revolutionary soldiers in ad edition of this issue.
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Broken Silence
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Valueless Valuables
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- Katie
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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