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| If this is inked by Frank Giacoia, it's probably officially drawn by Giacoia as well. Giacoia was a very popular "penciler" in the early '50s but hated penciling, so often he'd hire out the penciling to his friends. If it looks like Gil penciled it, he probably did. Sekowsky also penciled quite a bit for Frank; Frank was very well liked among the comics artist community (I'm sure the fact he could get them work didn't hurt his popularity, but according to Gil it was mainly because Frank was a great guy) so quite a few different artists penciled stories for him, but as far as I know there are no records. |
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| Publication | February-April 1960 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | The Ghost Stage |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson) |
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| Foreword/Afterword | The Ghost Stage / The Telegram from War Paint (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Previews of the two stories. |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson) |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and four illustrations. Script submitted on August 3, 1959 under the title "The Ghost Stage & Wire from War Paint". Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost Stage (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Jim Hardie and his stage are delayed by a boulder on the road, he and the driver find their intended gold shipment has been picked up by another Wells Fargo stage and signed for by a driver that Hardie knows to be dead. Hardie tracks down the "ghost stage" but eventually realizes that this robbery was just meant to distract him from an even larger gold robbery using another fake driver. |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie |
| Notes | Script submitted on July 22, 1959 under the title "Jim Hardie Trails the Ghost Stage". Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Kane credit per original indexer and Nick Caputo, who notes Giacoia may have done some pencil work but the majority of the art is by Kane. Alberto Becattini credited Frank Giacoia on pencils and inks (May 14, 2007). Mickey Coalwell credited Frank Bolle on pencils (November 1, 2015). |
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| Comic Story | The Telegram from War Paint (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Left for dead in a stage robbery, the guard manages to crawl inside the stage and send it to the next stop. As the guard recovers he sends for Jim Hardie. He tells Hardie who the gunmen are and Hardie rides off to question one of them. Meanwhile a hard-of-hearing old busybody is listening in and after getting a couple of drinks tells the story at a nearby saloon. One of the robbers is at the saloon and hears the gossip. He rides to the same ranch as Hardie, but he plans on leaving no witnesses. |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie |
| Notes | Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on July 25, 1959, under the title "Jim Hardie Answers a Wire from War Paint". Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Pencils appear to be mostly by Mike Sekowsky while some panels look like Gil Kane. (Merlin Haas, August 4, 2007). Nick Caputo suspect the art is a combination of Sekowsky and Kane. Alberto Becattini credits Frank Giacoia on pencils and inks (May 14, 2007). Mickey Coalwell credited Frank Bolle on pencils (November 1, 2015). |
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| Comic Story | The "Jehu" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the fast drivers of Wells Fargo stages, called "Jehu"s. One particular jehu, Charlie Parkhurst, was discovered, years after he retired, to have been a woman. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Charlie Parkhurst |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on August 1, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | Wells Fargo Express Box (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Back cover. Script submitted on August 1, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). This sequence replaced by an ad in some copies; see sequence 6. |
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| Advertisement | This Is a Beaverbear (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | This sequence replaced by a comic sequence in some copies; see sequence 5. |
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