| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Lode Raiders |
| Featuring | Rod Cameron |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photography) | Inks:? (photography) | Colors:? (photography) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rod Cameron; War Paint (photography of Knight) |
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| Comic Story | A Handshake with Death (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rod is is on the trail of a gang of outlaws and is hanged by the gang, but is saved by his horse. |
| Featuring | Rod Cameron |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Butts? | Inks: Bob Butts? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rod Cameron; War Paint (horse); Jody Gang |
| Notes | The art here is identical to some original pages credited to Butts, one from "Copper Canyon" (credited by Jerry Bails), in Motion Picture Comics, and some from "Bob Swift" # 3.
The other stories in "Bob Swift" has also these same smiling faces with long chins, but the faces have no resemblance to a signed story in "Pay-Off " #1, 1948, so there could be a misplaced credit on the originals, or Butts radically changed his style in two years.
Boyd Magers has Clem Weisbecker as artist on Rod Cameron, but the realistic horses in this issue are far from the crude ones by Weisbecker, see Jungle Girl #1. His are very similar to the horses in Bill Boyd Western, with large snouts and oversized hooves. Very uncertain credits. |
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| Comic Story | All Gone (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Andy has had a nerve-shattering experience. |
| Featuring | Ambling Andy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Ambling Andy |
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| Advertisement | Pen & Pencil Set |
| Synopsis | Send today for this beautiful pen set. |
| Featuring | Smith Brothers |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Independent Hombre |
| Synopsis | Hoghead has fallen down the stairs. |
| Featuring | Hoghead |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Hoghead |
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| Synopsis | In life you have to plan ahead. |
| Featuring | Riding Trail With Rod Cameron |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Butts? | Inks: Bob Butts? |
| Content | Characters: Rod Cameron |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
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| Synopsis | Pud and the kids catch a bank robber. |
| Featuring | Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum |
| Credits | Script: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) | Pencils: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) | Inks: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) |
| Content | Characters: Pud |
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| Comic Story | On Top |
| Synopsis | Andy's cousin is a head gardener, a barber. |
| Featuring | Ambling Andy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Ambling Andy; Pete Boggs |
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| Comic Story | The Prison Song (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sam is going to put on a show for the prisoners. |
| Featuring | Sam the Sheriff |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Sheriff Sam; PRISONERS: Boxx; Coxx |
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| Comic Story | The Border Escape (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | An escaped outlaw steals Rods horse and heads for the border. |
| Featuring | Rod Cameron |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Butts? | Inks: Bob Butts? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rod Cameron; War Paint (horse); Slippery Gibson (outlaw); Bull Herdin (crooked Sheriff) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
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| Comic Story | Chance Taker (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Hoghead is asked to do a good deed. |
| Featuring | Hoghead |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Hoghead |
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| Text Story | Bullet Wound (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doc Witherspoon catches four outlaws by putting them to sleep. |
| Credits | Script: R. R. Symes (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: A. J. Witherspoon (MD); OUTLAWS: Killer Kid; Lefty; Buck; Faro |
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| Comic Story | Dog Crazy (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sappy is worried about his dog. |
| Featuring | Sappy Nappy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Sappy Nappy |
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| Comic Story | The Lode Raiders (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The outlaws use sulphuric acid dynamite to raid a gold mine. |
| Featuring | Rod Cameron |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Butts? | Inks: Bob Butts? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rod Cameron; War Paint (horse); Jake Grimes (outlaw boss) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
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