| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | The Trail to Danger |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse); Gene Autry (photo, cameo) |
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| Illustration | Champion Rearing (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Mid-range shot of Champion rearing. (Only horse is shown, not the rider.) |
| Featuring | Champion |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse, photo) |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Full-page photograph. |
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| Comic Story | The Trail to Danger (22 pages) |
| Synopsis | While on a train, a conman switches a briefcase full of cash for one filled with cut paper, then jumps from the train with the cash. Rickey West sees him jump and the conman pretends to have a broken leg to get him to leave to get help. |
| Featuring | Champion |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse); Rickey West; Rebel (dog); Smoky Ashton; Baldy; Bud |
| Notes | Champion lives on Smoky Ashton's Flying A ranch and is ridden by the boy Rickey West. There are no references to Gene Autry in the issue, other than the cover photo. |
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| Comic Story | El Lobo the Killer (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rickey takes Champion and Rebel to hunt for the colt Starlight in the snow in the mountains. Champion saves the colt from an attack by a wolf. |
| Featuring | Champion |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse; Ricky West; Rebel (dog); Smoky Ashton |
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| Comic Story | Bad Man's Vengence (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hicks, a rough ranchhand tries to ride Champion and his cruel tactics get him fired. Hicks hires two men to get his revenge by setting fire to the barn on the Flying A, but their plot is broken up by Rebel and Smoky Ashton. Later the three kidnap Ricky West and hold him for ransom. |
| Featuring | Champion |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse); Ricky West; Rebel (dog); Smoky Ashton; Hop Kee |
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| Illustration | Down a Dusty Incline (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Photo of Champion going down a dusty incline (riverbank?). |
| Featuring | Champion |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse) |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Full-page photograph. |
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| Illustration | On Gene Autry's Ranch (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Champion with a colt and calf. |
| Featuring | Champion |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Champion (horse) |
| Notes | Back cover; color. Same artist as front cover. The hills and cliffs in the background are rendered in the same fashion in both paintings and there are many other similarities. |
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