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| Publication | January-March 1962 | Price: 0.15 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lucas McCain (photo of Chuck Connors); Mark McCain (photo of Johnny Crawford) |
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| Comic Story | Winter's Harvest (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Story of ice harvesting in the Old West |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | A Stranger Comes to North Fork (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lucas sees a woman from his past, Nell Dorne, enter town. Lucas was best friends with her husband Dan Dorne, who has turned outlaw. Nell befriends Mark and subsequently ends up being shot in her hotel room. Her bag is missing which holds the money from Dan's bank robbery. Dan Dorne arrives and threatens Lucas and Mark after Lucas would not hide him from the law. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Marshall Micah Torrance; Lucas McCain; Mark McCain; Nell Dorne; Pete the Hotel/Saloon Keeper; Doctor; Dan Dorne |
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| Text Story | The Winner (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Rancher Jonas Clark threatens Brad Mason for refusing to sell his homestead with a spring to him. Brad stands up to him and wins. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Brad Mason; Jonas Clark; Lem Camp |
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| Synopsis | Two page spread for Dell Trading Post. Kids could cut off tops of Dell Comics and send them in for prizes. |
| Featuring | Dell Trading Post |
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| Comic Story | Proof of Guilt (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bounty Hunter Jerry Reed is ambushed by outlaw Tad Stone. Stone tells the Sheriff that he is Jerry Reed and that he captured outlaw Stone. The real Reed convinces the Sheriff to jail them both until the Marshall from Montana can get there. Reed goes along with a ruse to help Stone break out of jail but turns on him and tells the Sheriff where the money was hidden. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tad Stone; Jerry Reed; Sheriff; Marshall from Montana |
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| Comic Story | The Young Runaway (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A little girl (Polly Burt) turns up at the McCain ranch and Mark takes her in. Later two riders approach and ask if Mark had seen a little girl who has run away from their wagon train. Mark keeps quiet about Polly. In town Wheeler has brought Sam Morgan to Sheriff Torrance and is asking for help in finding Polly, who is Morgan's adopted daughter. Mark tells Lucas about Polly and takes her to town where he meets the Wileys who love Polly. It's discovered that Morgan bought Polly for fifty dollars from her uncle. Polly is adopted by the Wileys. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lucas McCain; Mark McCain; Polly Burt (Wiley); Marshall Micah Torrance; Wagon Train Master Wheeler; Sam Morgan; John and Mary Wiley; Morgan's wife |
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| Comic Story | Getting Started |
| Synopsis | two panel description of what ranchers had to do when getting started by themselves. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Advertisement | Meet Tubby, the Whale |
| Synopsis | advertisement for Tubble, bubble bath soap |
| Featuring | Tubble |
| Content | Characters: Tubby the Whale |
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| Comic Story | Runaway from Somewhere (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Brief bio of Charley Parker, noted stagecoach driver. For thirty years Parker (a woman) posed as a man, and only at her death was it discovered she was female. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Charley Parker |
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| Synopsis | advertisement for Schwinn 6-seed Corvette bicycle. painted illustration. |
| Notes | back cover |
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