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| Great Gil Kane pencil job, but who inked it? In places it looks like Giacoia, in others like Sy Barry, and in spots even like Murphy Anderson. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1958 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson) |
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| Synopsis | Jim Hardie tracks down a robber that robs a train of a strong box. |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie (photos of Dale Robertson) |
| Notes | Printed in black-and-white on inside front cover. Six stills from the TV series that tell a story. This is not a preview of an interior story, as is usually the case with these sequences. |
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| Comic Story | Alder Gulch (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hardie investigates a series of stagecoach robberies in a remote area called "Alder Gulch." The sheriff in Virginia City doesn't seem very interested in solving the thefts, which makes Hardie suspicious. |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie; Boone Helm |
| Notes | Pencils credit by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Alan Hutchinson, and several others (2013-03-04). Giacoia Inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Alberto Becattini (2013-03-05). Giella inks per Nick Caputo. Nick believes that Giella assisted Giacoia on this story. |
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| Comic Story | Manuel (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Basque immigrant sheepherder is accused of kidnapping a little girl and stealing a valuable diamond brooch and Hardie has to prevent a lynching. |
| Featuring | Tales of Wells Fargo |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Hardie; Pablo Diaz; Manuel Diaz |
| Notes | Pencils credit by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Alan Hutchinson, and several others (2013-03-04). Inks credit by Alberto Becattini (2013-03-05), who says "Pages 1-7 were inked by Giacoia. I believe there's a different inker on pages 8-16 (although Giacoia might have inked some of the faces), but I can't identify him." Giella inks per Nick Caputo, who believes he assisted Giacoia throughout most of the story. |
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| Comic Story | Famous Road Agents (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Brief summaries of three famous stage-coach robbers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Henry Plummer; Bill Miner; Black Bart |
| Notes | Printed in black-and-white on inside back cover. Panels with text underneath. Pencils credit by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Alan Hutchinson, and several others (2013-03-04). |
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| Comic Story | Wells Fargo (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A rival of Wells Fargo builds an office in San Francisco in the 1850s, using Chinese labor. However the Chinese believe the location is "evil" and after the building is finished, Chinese merchants refuse to enter the building and give Wells Fargo, located across the street, their business. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | On back cover. Panels with text underneath. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils credit by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Alan Hutchinson, and several others (2013-03-04). |
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