Tumbleweeds #5 (D2564)
(June 1972)

Gold Medal Books, 1970 Series
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Price
0.50 USD
Pages
132
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fawcett Publications Inc.
Brand
Fawcett Gold Medal; Fawcett World Library
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Reprints "Tumbleweeds" newspaper strips from 1969.

Spine number 449-02564-050.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Tumbleweeds / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Tom K. Ryan
Pencils
Tom K. Ryan
Inks
Tom K. Ryan
Colors
?
Letters
Tom K. Ryan

Genre
humor; western-frontier
Characters
Tumbleweeds; Soppy Sopwell
Synopsis
Tumbleweeds wants freedom to move and room to breathe. Soppy offers to move over.
Keywords
Cowboy; drunk

Indexer Notes

Comic strip repeated from interior.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)


Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Tumbleweeds #5

Indexer Notes

Title page; front matter

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Tumbleweeds / comic story / 126 pages (report information)

Script
Tom K. Ryan
Pencils
Tom K. Ryan
Inks
Tom K. Ryan
Letters
Tom K. Ryan

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The big lonesome is callin' to me, Soppy!
Genre
humor; western-frontier
Characters
Tumbleweeds; Epic; Soppy Sopwell; Hildegarde Hamhocker; Sheriff; Snake-Eye; Knuckles; Ham; Beans; Hogarth Hemp; Percy; Grover Galley; Chief; Medicine Man; Limpid Lizard; Lotsa Luck
Keywords
American Indian; cowboy; horse; Native American; newspaper; newspaper comic strip; outlaw

Indexer Notes

Collection of daily newspaper comic strips. Notable story arcs include: Tumbleweeds seeks the wide-open spaces; Hildegarde pursues Tumbleweeds; Limpid Lizard resigns from the Poohawks; Barbaric Arts Seminar; Tumbleweeds and Epic jump a chasm; Tumbleweeds is lost in the desert.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)


Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Tumbleweeds / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Tom K. Ryan
Pencils
Tom K. Ryan
Inks
Tom K. Ryan
Colors
?
Letters
Tom K. Ryan

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Well, here we are, Epic...
Genre
humor; western-frontier
Characters
Tumbleweeds; Epic; vulture
Synopsis
Tumbleweeds, lost in the desert, is almost ready to give up -- ALMOST, he stresses to a vulture.
Keywords
Buzzard; cowboy; desert; horse; vulture

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Strip repeated from interior.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Tumbleweeds
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. ["Tumbleweeds #5"]
  4. 3. ["The big lonesome is callin' to me, Soppy!"]
    Tumbleweeds
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. ["Well, here we are, Epic..."]
    Tumbleweeds
This issue was modified by
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Jochen G.
  • Merlin Haas
  • Kirk House