Good Comic for being a TV show at the time. The Rifle Man was one of my favorite TV show. The art work is good could be better. The storys are great. And the cover is BEST.
Additional Information
Name
1009 - Rifleman | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
Indicia title is "THE RIFLEMAN, No. 1009". Code number is T.RIFLEMAN O.S. #1009-597. Copyright 1959 by Four Star-Sussex. First and only Rifleman Four Color. Becomes The Rifleman (Dell 1960 series) with #2 (January-March 1960). Based on the ABC TV series "The Rifleman". All instances of "The Rifleman" as a logo in this issue have an asterisk at the end with a note somewhere else on the page that says "*Trademark".
Cover
Outlaw's Pony / 1 page
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Lucas McCain [The Rifleman] (photo of Chuck Connors); Mark McCain (photo of Johnny Crawford)
Foreword/Afterword
The Rifleman / The Rifleman (1 page)
Synopsis
Introduction to the series.
Pencils
? (photos)
Inks
? (photos)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Lucas McCain [The Rifleman] (photos of Chuck Connors); Mark McCain (photo of Johnny Crawford)
Script
Eric FreiwaldRobert Schaefer
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos and typeset text.
Comic Story
Outlaw's Pony / The Rifleman (16 pages)
Synopsis
Lucas joins a posse after the Cattleman's Association is robbed of $3,000. Meanwhile Mark goes fishing at a nearby creek. The posse finds the robbers and Lucas wings one of them and his horse bolts. Mark finds the horse and takes him home. When Lucas returns he finds the stolen money and takes it to the sheriff. After he leaves, the robbers come by looking for a horse and Mark stalls them until Lucas returns.
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Lucas McCain [The Rifleman]; Mark McCain; Marshal Micah Torrence
Script
Eric FreiwaldRobert Schaefer
Pencils
Dan Spiegle
Inks
Dan Spiegle
Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
A Score to Settle / The Rifleman (16 pages)
Synopsis
Three Reagan brothers come to town to seek revenge on Lucas McCain for a long-ago incident that left their father crippled.
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Lucas McCain [The Rifleman]; Mark McCain; Marshal Micah Torrence
Script
Eric FreiwaldRobert Schaefer
Pencils
Dan Spiegle
Inks
Dan Spiegle
Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
The Bluff / The Rifleman (1 page)
Synopsis
Two men get the drop on Lucas McCain for testifying against their brother and sending him to jail. McCain challenges them to start shooting and the men back down, dropping their guns. McCain's son then comes by, with some cartridges for his empty rifle.
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Lucas McCain [The Rifleman]; Mark McCain
Script
Eric FreiwaldRobert Schaefer
Pencils
Dan Spiegle
Inks
Dan Spiegle
First Line
Reach, Rifleman!
Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
The Flip Special (1 page)
Synopsis
Facts about Winchester rifles and Lucas McCain's specially-made Winchester, the "Flip Special".
Letters
typeset
Genre
Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Characters
Lucas McCain [The Rifleman] (cameo)
Pencils
Dan Spiegle ?
Inks
Dan Spiegle ?
Notes
Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath. No feature given, although the Rifleman appears in one panel.
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