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Publication | September-November 1959 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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Featuring | Boots and Saddles |
Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Capt. Shank Adams (photo of John Pickard); Luke Cummings (photo of Michael Hinn) |
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Synopsis | Preview of first story. |
Featuring | [Boots and Saddles] |
Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Capt. Shank Adams (photo of John Pickard); Luke Cummings (photo of Michael Hinn) |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos and brief typeset text. |
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Comic Story | Bad Medicine (10 pages) |
Synopsis | When Chief Otter Claw's son develops smallpox, his medicine man says it is the white man's fault and wants to wage war. Capt. Adams brings the fort doctor to apply a vaccination to the boy and his recovery is the key to war or peace. |
Featuring | Boots and Saddles |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Capt. Shank Adams; Corp. Davis |
Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records. (August 4, 2007). |
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Comic Story | The Gun Smugglers (12 pages) |
Synopsis | The Cavalry is frustrated when gun smugglers escape across the Rio Grande River, which they have orders not to cross. They trick the smugglers into stealing defective rifles and when the Mexicans chase them back across the border for selling them bad goods, the smugglers are caught in a crossfire from both the Mexicans and the Calvary. |
Featuring | Boots and Saddles |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Capt. Shank Adams; Luke Cummings; Sgt. Bullock |
Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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Comic Story | The Book Soldier (10 pages) |
Synopsis | A new Sergeant at the fort does everything "by the book" of Army Regulations. His rigid adherence to the regulations causes friction in the fort and when he goes out on patrol, their horses are stolen by Apaches and he and his men have to walk. |
Featuring | Boots and Saddles |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Capt. Shank Adams; Sgt. Bullock |
Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records. (August 4, 2007). |
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Comic Story | Western Forts (1 page) |
Synopsis | Facts about life inside a western Army fort. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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Comic Story | Army Men (1 page) |
Synopsis | Facts about the types of men who joined the Army after the Civil War. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
Notes | Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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