| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Fatal Ferry! |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photography) | Inks:? (photography) | Colors:? (photography) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane (photograph of Allan Lane); Black Jack (photograph of Anndy Pershing [sic]) |
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| Comic Story | The Fatal Ferry (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocky is on an urgent mission and is being ferried across a river when knocked overboard by the phony ferryman. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Old Gus (ferryman); Jed (phony ferryman); bankrobbers |
| Notes | The very lively horses are typical Carlson, especially the outstretched front legs. |
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| Featuring | Helpfull Hannah and Harriett |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Bolle | Inks: Frank Bolle |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hannah; Harriett |
| Notes | Drawings look very much like Bolle's Pistol Packin' Pattie, and also his Tim Holt for this period, so most probably his work. |
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| Comic Story | The Bronc Bandits (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Horses vanish without trace, and, with the law helpless, they send for Marshal Rocky Lane. A rodeo is under suspicion. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Doyle | Inks: Frank Doyle |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Boss; bronc riders |
| Notes | Frank Doyle is best spotted by his horses and peculiar movement. |
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| Featuring | Roping 'n' Riding with Allan "Rocky" Lane |
| Credits | Script: Allan Rocky Lane (signed) | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse) |
| Notes | Note the horse with outstretched legs at bottom af page, and you have Carlson. |
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| Comic Story | Fast Eaters (1 page) |
| Featuring | Gopherface |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Gopherface; Mr. Watts |
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| Text Story | Nester's Revenge (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Rod Reed [as Walter Farmer] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Seth McGuire; Doc Whitehead; Farmer Jones; Nester Jones; Big Bill Billings; Weasley Neen |
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| Comic Story | The King of the Rattlers (7.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocky runs into a crazy man who plunder settlers and wagontrains, and has rattlesnakes as pets. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Doyle | Inks: Frank Doyle |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Rattler King |
| Notes | The unrealistic horses and the way of riding them, points to Doyle. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Special Offer |
| Synopsis | You can get Rocky's picture with Black Jack autographed to you personally. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse) |
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| Synopsis | Facts about horseshoes. |
| Featuring | Black Jack's Hitching Post |
| Credits | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Black Jack; Rocky Lane |
| Notes | Art same as the Carlson story. |
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| Comic Story | Aweigh with Him (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sagebrush counts the scales on the back of the fish to gets its weight. |
| Featuring | Sagebrush |
| Credits | Script: Howard Boughner | Pencils: Howard Boughner | Inks: Howard Boughner |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Sagebrush; cowboy |
| Notes | Script and art credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Featuring | Mystified Mike |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mike |
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| Publisher advertisement | Now You Can Get Rocky Lane Western Each Month, By Mail |
| Synopsis | Subscription ad for Rocky lane Western. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane Western |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Diagnosis (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dee has got a bad foot, and goes to the doctor. |
| Featuring | Dee Dickens |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Dee Dickens; Doc |
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| Comic Story | Mustang Mack is the Cat's Meow |
| Featuring | Mustang Mack |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mustang Mack; Wal |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Wild West at its Adventurous Best |
| Featuring | Rod Cameron Western |
| Credits | Pencils: Clem Weisbecker | Inks: Clem Weisbecker |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rod Cameron |
| Notes | Similar art credited to Weisbecker by Vadebonceur. |
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| Comic Story | Decoy for Death (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocky is on the trail of an outlaw called Three-Shot McCoy. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Script: Ralph Carlson | Pencils: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Nevada; Three-Shot McCoy (outlaw); Postmaster |
| Notes | Notes as for the first Carlson story. |
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