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| Publication | August - October 1959 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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| Synopsis | Bill leaps with six-shooter aimed to shoot. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buffalo Bill Jr. |
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| Advertisement | "Fresh Up" Freddie Says: "Right Now, You're Probably Asking Yourself - How Does a Lumberjack Get a Quick, Refreshing Lift?" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Lumberjack red-bird Freddie in four captioned panels: introducing himself holding an ax by a sapling with an ax-cut mark; caught between logs in a river log-jam; under a fallen tree in the forest; and relaxing with a 7-Up. |
| Featuring | 7-Up |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Fresh-Up" Freddie, an anthropomorphic bird |
| Notes | Cover 2 (C2) inside front cover. 7-Up advertisement. 4 panel comic featuring "Fresh-Up" Freddie as a lumberjack. "Copyright 1959 by The Seven-Up Company." Footer: "See Freddie on TV! Watch Zorro* . . . from Walt Disney Studios every week on ABC-TV *Copyright 1957 Walt Disney Studios" |
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| Comic Story | The "Monster" Horse (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Out hunting stray horses, Bill and Calamity come upon a half-dead Indian afoot in the desert, ranting in native tongue about either a "ghost horse," or "bad monster horse," that is chasing him. It turns out to be a camel with her calf. Bill ropes the camel, and takes it in tow for home to the judge's ranch. Sundown is nigh, but they won't take the short-cut through Sycamore Basin, for fear the camel may spook a stampede of the judge's new herd of Texas longhorns grazing there. An expository caption explains the presence of camels out west: imported by the Cavalry for desert Indian wars, wandering strays spooked horses and cattle for two generations. Meanwhile. The Conger gang! Rustlers! They subdue the judge's three cowhands watching herd over the longhorns, and begin driving them from the Basin. The herd and the rustlers' horses catch scent of the camel, and go wild. Rustlers are thrown from their mounts. The longhorn herd stampedes. Bill and Calamity stand by the camel, and the cattle stampede parts, to avoid the camel scent. Bill and Calamity subdue two rustlers, and Calamity is to take them into town. Bill subdues two more rustlers, frees the three cowhands, and bring them all back to the Judge, who scoffs at the tale of camels. A rustler breaks free outside, gets Bill's gun, but the startled camel breaks its bonds, knocking down the two escaping rustlers, making the judge a believer. The Cavalry comes for its camels. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buffalo Bill, Jr.; Calamity; the Judge |
| Notes | indicia "Copyright © 1959, by Flying A Productions, Inc." Gaylord Du Bois Account Book entry, in its brief entirety, reads: "The Monster Horse. 14p. For Buffalo Bill Jr., May/July issue. Sent October 3, 1958." Inks identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010). |
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| Text Story | The Last Herd (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Young Hastie is excited, seeing a herd of buffalo, to shoot a couple for food. Old Brand had his fill of killing buffalo when he was a buffalo hunter, and prefers to let them alone. A Commanche war party! Hastie and Brand hide in the herd of buffalo. The war party passes. Hastie repays the herd for hiding him: he lets them be. Brand's conscience feels better. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (illustration) | Letters:? (typeset) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hastie; Brand |
| Notes | Copyright 1959 by Western Printing & Litho. Co. |
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| Comic Story | The Buffalo Hunter and The Hide Thieves (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sandy and Wise Knife are loading buffalo hides in the covered wagon when they offer hospitality to thieving strangers, who bind them. As the thieves eat and gloat over the ease of their theft, a storm breaks. The thieves retreat inside the dry covered wagon. The rain loosens the leather binding Sandy and Wise Knife, who escape. Lightning stampedes a small buffalo herd, which tips the wagon. Sandy and Wise Knife grab rifles, and subdue the thieves, leaving them bound to a tree to work themselves free, and telling them they can retrieve their guns and horses at the nearest army post. |
| Featuring | Buffalo Hunter |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sandy Hill [Buffalo Hunter]; Wise Knife (Indian partner) |
| Notes | In Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois Account Books Arranged by Title," no working title of this story was listed, only the feature, "Buffalo Hunter."
Copyright 1959 by Western Printing & Litho. Co. Inks identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010). |
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| Comic Story | Buffalo Bill Jr. and the Fair Exchange (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Calamity alerts the Judge and Bill she found eggs missing from the hen-house, and valuable turquoise left in their place. Bill recognises this as the work of "Big Foot" and "Little Foot" (so-called because of their tracks) who in past months have taken food, blanket, knife, and left turquoise or a gold chunk in payment. Calamity suggests her dog, Cubby, can trail the two, and Bill agrees. Skinny "Slick" Blackmore spies on the conversation, and enlists beefy Bull Huggins to join him in following. Bill sees their quarry fleeing, but Calamity spots "Slick" and Bull, so they confront them and warn them off. Bill and Calamity find Yazhini and Yolkai, a Mohave boy and his little 12 year old sister who was outcast from the tribe by the medicine man because of her evil birthmark and because her hair turned white after enemies attacked and killed her parents. They fled to the cave and have lived there in fear for months. Bill sets the boy's leg, and they carry him out on a makeshift stretcher, but as he is transferring the boy to mount the horse, carrying him piggyback, "Slick" and Bull appear. Bill rushes "Slick," who fires and misses. Yazhini whacks Bull's head with a rod, and Bill decks "Slick." The Judge appears and identifies the rod as gold the old Spanish miners used to mold in hollow reeds! |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buffalo Bill, Jr.; Calamity; the Judge |
| Notes | In Randall Scott's "Gaylord Du Bois Account Books Arranged by Title," the working title of this story was listed as "Big Foot and Little Foot."
The story ends on the last page's 5th panel. The 6th panel is "Dell Comics: A Pledge to Parents."
Inks identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010). |
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| Advertisement | Bill's Vacation Gift from Dad! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "My vacation gift to you, Bill, is training in marksmanship and in safe handling of all guns." |
| Featuring | Daisy Manufacturing Company |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Dad; Bill |
| Notes | Daisy Air Rifle advertisement. 6 panel comic featuring Dad and Bill, plus coupon for two free training books. |
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| Advertisement | New! Daisy Scope Gun (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Featuring new Daisy Scope Gun No. 88 Daisy Hunter air rifle with Scope Mounted, Sling; Daisy Pump Gun air rifle with screw driver; and Daisy Western Saddle Carbine air rifle with genuine leather boot. |
| Featuring | Daisy Manufacturing Company |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Cover 3 (C3) inside back cover. Color. Daisy Training Air Rifles advertisement. |
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| Advertisement | Kraft Candies (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Kraft Candies advertisement. Featuring Kraft Fudgies. |
| Featuring | Kraft Fudgies |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Cover 4 (C4) back cover. |
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