| Comments |
| |
|
|
| | |
| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Original cover by unknown artist. Ze General appears on the cover but does not appear in any of the stories reprinted in the comic itself. |
| |
| Cover | Little Joe |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Ze General |
| Notes | Original cover by unknown artist. Ze General appears on the cover but does not appear in any of the stories reprinted in the comic itself. |
| |
| Comic Story | Don Jose (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Don Jose builds a hacienda on a mesa and tries to use his band of bandits to force Little Joe and his family off their ranch. |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak; Don Jose (villain) |
| Notes | Story is highly edited. Many missing strips were likely left out because of excessive violence. Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Each Sunday strip is rearranged to fit on the comic page, but no panels are dropped. |
| |
| Comic Story | Black Jack Smith (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | An "outlaw with a heart of gold" escapes from a posse by hiding at the Oaks' ranch. |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak; Black Jack Smith |
| Notes | Sunday pages are reformatted to fit comic book pages, but no panels are dropped. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Sheep Herders (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Utah and Little Joe run off ornery sheep herders who have brought their sheep to the valley. |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak |
| Notes | Each Sunday strip is rearranged to fit on the comic page, but no panels are dropped. |
| |
| Comic Story | Farmers, Eutopia, and Dust Storms (20 pages) |
| Synopsis | Conman Blurb sells claims on free range land in the valley to farmers who establish the village of Eutopia. But drought and lack of ground cover cause massive dust storms that ruin both the farmers and their land. |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak; Judge Blurb (villain) |
| Notes | Each Sunday strip is rearranged to fit on the comic page, but no panels are dropped. The story is obviously inspired by the Great Plains "Dust Bowl" of the mid-1930s. |
| |
| Comic Story | The New Ranch House (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Using labor from the destitute farmers and lumber from deserted houses, a new ranch house for the Oaks is built at the end of "Hidden Valley." |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak |
| Notes | Each Sunday strip is rearranged to fit on the comic page, but no panels are dropped. |
| |
| Comic Story | Utah runs for Sheriff (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | After shooting a gang of bank robbers, Utah is elected sheriff. He later wipes out a gang of cattle rustlers. |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak; Three-Card Al |
| Notes | Each Sunday strip is rearranged to fit on the comic page, but no panels are dropped. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Power Plant (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mr. Drill builds a hydro-electric dam on the Oaks' ranch to generate power for an airplane guidance beacon. |
| Featuring | Little Joe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah; Mrs. Oak; Three-Card Al |
| Notes | Each Sunday strip is rearranged to fit on the comic page, but no panels are dropped. Strips are printed out of order. 1938.02.27 is the inside back cover and is printed in black, red, and white. 1938.02.20 is the back cover. |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
