| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Drygulching Desperados! |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane (photograph of Allan Lane) |
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| Advertisement | Shoot Safe Buddy! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for Daisy air rifles. |
| Featuring | Daisy air rifles |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | X Marks the Spot (9.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | The prospectors who have made the big strikes in the silver boomtown have mysteriously disappeared. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Freestone (crooked agent); sheriff |
| Notes | The very lively horses are typical Carlson, especially the outstretched front legs. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Special Offer |
| Synopsis | Offer to order an autographed picture of Rocky Lane and Black Jack. |
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| Featuring | Roping 'n' Riding with Allan "Rocky" Lane |
| Credits | Script: Allan "Rocky" Lane (credited) | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse) |
| Notes | Art notes as for main story. |
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| Comic Story | Well Timed (1 page) |
| Featuring | Sagebrush |
| Credits | Script: Howard Boughner | Pencils: Howard Boughner | Inks: Howard Boughner |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Script and art credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Advertisement | Make a Treasure Chest |
| Synopsis | Ad for how to make a treasure chest with Scotch Cellophane tape. |
| Featuring | Scotch Cellophane tape |
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| Featuring | Music Loving Loring |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Drygultching Desperados (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocky is on his way to transfer a prisoner but is ambushed and his marshal credentials stolen. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Doyle | Inks: Frank Doyle |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Wily Dawson (outlaw prisoner) |
| Notes | Frank Doyle is best spotted by his horses and movement, and this story compares well with his signed Planet Comics stories and Lash LaRue #6. |
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| Featuring | Dubble Bubble |
| Credits | Script: Ray Thompson [as Ray T] | Pencils: Ray Thompson [as Ray T] | Inks: Ray Thompson [as Ray T] |
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| Synopsis | Loonan, inside an insane asylum and dressed as Napoleon, wonders why a man is fishing in the rain. |
| Featuring | Lunatic Loonan |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lunatic Loonan [as Napoleon] |
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| Comic Story | The Doctor's Dilemma (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Dee Dickens |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Bridge of Death (6.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | The only way people can get to town is over Brach's bridge, and he is taking a toll of ten dollars. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Doyle | Inks: Frank Doyle |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Jawbuster Brach (villain); Meeker |
| Notes | Notes as for the other Doyle story. |
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| Publisher advertisement | For the First Time in a Comic Magazine! |
| Featuring | Captain Video |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| 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 | Notes as for the main story. |
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| Comic Story | The Mad Hatter! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Gopherface |
| Credits | Script: Lit-Win? | Pencils: Lit-Win? | Inks: Lit-Win? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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| Featuring | Roamy and Julie |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Bolle | Inks: Frank Bolle |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Roamy; Julie |
| Notes | Faces, hats and inklines is identical to Bolle's many Tim Holt stories for Fawcett. He also drew the humor series Pistol Packin' Pattie for Fawcett. |
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| Text Story | Coward's Comeback (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Tracy Lee (credited) | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Tracy Lee is likely a pen-name. |
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| Comic Story | Death's Hoax (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocky is asked to give immediate aid to a rancher who says he's going to be killed unless he gets protection. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Benton (rancher) |
| Notes | Notes as for the other Carlson story. |
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| Advertisement | Hey Gang! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for building model cars with plans from Mechanix Illustrated. |
| Featuring | Mechanix Illustrated |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Get Your Prize (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for American Seed Company. |
| Featuring | American Seed Company |
| Notes | On back cover of comic. |
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