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| All interior art by Albert Micale. |
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| Publication | March-May 1961 | Price: 0.15 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | Wanted: Dead or Alive! |
| Featuring | Wanted: Dead or Alive! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Josh Randall (photo of Steve McQueen) |
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| Foreword/Afterword | The Trail of the Bear / The Carved Bullet (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Previews of the stories in the issue. |
| Featuring | Wanted: Dead or Alive! |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photo) | Inks:?;? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Josh Randall (photo of Steve McQueen) |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories. |
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| Comic Story | The Carved Bullet (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Randall finds a man in an abandoned shack, delirious from blood poisoning after shooting himself in the foot. During the man's raving, Randall learns of a meeting of the gang of "Doc Cole, the most wanted man in California." Randall decides to go to the meeting and capture Cole. |
| Featuring | Wanted: Dead or Alive! |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Josh Randall |
| Notes | Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 199, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013). |
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| Comic Story | The Trail of the Bear (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Randall and his friend Jase track Bear-Tracks Borrman through Apache territory. Borrman captures them and takes them to a cavern full of gold nuggets. |
| Featuring | Wanted: Dead or Alive! |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Josh Randall; Jase Nichols |
| Notes | Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013). |
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| Comic Story | Famous Wanted Men (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Brief biographies of six famous criminals of the old West. |
| Featuring | Wanted: Dead or Alive! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Joaquin Murieta; Tiburcio Vasquez; Bill Miner; Sam Bass; John Wesley Hardin; William P. Longley |
| Notes | Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 199, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott, which states: "Famous Wanted Men. Cover #3 for Wanted, Dead or Alive, February issue. Sent August 20, 1960." Cover #3. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013).
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo in on the sequence, but no characters appear. |
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| Advertisement | This is a Beaverbear (1 page) |
| Featuring | Kraft Caramels |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Part of series of "hybrid animals" ads for Kraft Caramels candy. |
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