Additional Information |
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Publication | August-October 1959 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
Notes | Cover is photo with background cropped out. |
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Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson) |
Notes | Cover is photo with background cropped out. |
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Foreword/Afterword | Jim Hardie (1 page) |
Synopsis | Previews of the two stories in the issue. |
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 with typeset text. |
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Comic Story | The Man They Couldn't Drown (16 pages) |
Synopsis | Jim Hardie is caught off guard by outlaws while swimming is a beaver pond. He escapes the ambush by surfacing in the beaver's lodge and then goes on to foil the robber's attempt to rob the Bitter Creek Stage of $100,000. |
Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie |
Notes | Script submitted on February 20, 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). |
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Comic Story | The Skeleton Cave (16 pages) |
Synopsis | A stage carrying a strongbox, a case of dynamite, and an Army officer's wife is ambushed by Apaches. Hardie uses the dynamite to hold off the Apaches while the driver and woman go to the Army fort for help. |
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 February 18, 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). |
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Comic Story | The Miner's Friend (1 page) |
Synopsis | Facts about the Wells Fargo express service in the old West. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on February 14, 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). |
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Comic Story | The Concord Coach (1 page) |
Synopsis | Facts about the design of the Concord stage coaches used by Wells Fargo. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
Notes | Back cover. Script submitted on February 14, 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). |
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