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| According to Boyd Magers' "Comic Book Cowboys" site, this comic reprints a Sunday-only newspaper strip from 1940-1942. The author, Gerald Geraghty, was a screenwriter whose credits include Autry's serial The Phantom Empire. |
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| Was the unsigned back cover drawn by Jim Chambers, who drew and signed the front covers for No8 and No9? (It's not by Till Goodan.) |
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| Publication | 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Pencils: Till Goodan (signed) | Inks: Till Goodan (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gene Autry; Champion (a horse) |
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| Text Article | Gene Autry (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Pencils: Till Goodan? |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Gene Autry; Champion; Betty Goodan |
| Notes | A bio of Gene Autry and his horse.
Inside front and back covers. |
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| Comic Story | Gene Autry Rides! (33 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gene and Tumbleweed stop two groups of cattle rustlers, prevent swindlers from stealing Indian land and take part in a rodeo. |
| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Script: Gerald Geraghty | Pencils: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan | Inks: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gene Autry; Tumbleweed; Clementine; Champion; Slu-Foot; Buddy; Lafe; Jim; Laurie; Pedro; Zeke Hammond; Major Hartly; Brad Payne; Red Cloud; Standin' Cow; Tim Burns; Hank Burns; Billy Burns; Gravedigger; Chainfoot |
| Notes | It's noted in the book that Betty drew all the girls in the stories.
This story is clearly reworked from an unused script from the comic strip GENE AUTRY RIDES, featuring the same characters, themes and locations. |
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| Synopsis | Gene and Frosty discover a cattle rustling gang operating out of a ghost town. |
| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Script: Gerald Geraghty | Pencils: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan | Inks: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gene Autry; Champion; Frosty; Lulu; Miss Trimble |
| Notes | It's noted in the book that Betty drew all the girls in the stories. |
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| Synopsis | Gene and Frosty get caught up in a sheepmen and cattlemen feud. |
| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Script: Gerald Geraghty | Pencils: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan | Inks: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Frosty; Gene Autry; Champion; Rod Yancey; Isabel Yancey; Mal Yancey |
| Notes | This reprints the last of the Gene Autry Rides! comic stips.
It's noted in the book that Betty drew all the girls in the stories. |
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| Synopsis | Gene and Frosty help a woman who's land has oil on it. |
| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Script: Gerald Geraghty | Pencils: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan | Inks: Till Goodan; Betty Goodan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Frosty; Gene Autry; Champion; Ellen; Hillman; Hank Stevens |
| Notes | It's noted in the book that Betty drew all the girls in the stories.
This story is clearly a finished, but unpublished, story from the comic strip GENE AUTRY RIDES. Its in the same format and features the same characters, themes and locations. |
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| Text Article | Gene Autry's Western Scrapbook (9 pages) |
| Featuring | Gene Autry |
| Credits | Script: Gerald Geraghty | Pencils: Till Goodan | Inks: Till Goodan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Information on saddles, chaps, roping, bronc riding, steer wrestling, and pack horses. |
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| Credits | Pencils: Till Goodan? |
| Content | Characters: Gene Autry; Champion |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
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More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
