| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photography) | Inks:? (photography) | Colors:? (photography) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane (photograph of Allan Lane); Black Jack (photography of Anndy Pershing [sic]) |
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| Text Story | Noose for a Neck (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: John Martin | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Inside front and back covers. |
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| Comic Story | The Prairie Massacre (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocky disguises himself as an Indian in order to get near the renegade Indians who have stolen ammunition. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); guard |
| Notes | The very lively horses are typical of Carlson, especially with the outstretched front legs. |
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| Comic Story | Sagebrush Has Young Ideas |
| Synopsis | Sagebrush is going to the theatre to see "William the Juvenile", or Billy the Kid. |
| Featuring | Sagebrush |
| Credits | Script: Howard Boughner | Pencils: Howard Boughner | Inks: Howard Boughner |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Sagebrush |
| Notes | Script and art credits for this feature identified by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Advancing Times |
| Synopsis | Gopherface is the victim of a skull fracture. |
| Featuring | Gopherface |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Gopherface |
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| Comic Story | The Deadly Dead Bear (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A taxidermist is sewed up in a bear hide by his killer. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Bolle | Inks: Frank Bolle |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Mr. Swanson (taxidermist); Kringe (killer) |
| Notes | Thanks to the GCD-Main mailing list, this artist must be Bolle, and compared with his work on Red Mask at this period, it matches, especially the drawing of the very realistic hats is similar, and inking matches his much later work on UFO Flying Saucers for Gold Key. Can find no match on the inking around 1954, but seeing how he varied and developed his drawing, the inking could be his too. |
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| Comic Story | A Close Shave (3.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dee at the barber shop. |
| Featuring | Dee Dickens |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Dee Dickens; Barber |
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| Publisher advertisement | Extra! Extra! Extra! |
| Synopsis | You can get Rocky's picture with Black Jack autographed to you personally. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse) |
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| Comic Story | Murder's Suitor (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A jealous cowboy kills his rival. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Bolle | Inks: Frank Bolle |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Betty Sue; Trig Gates (killer); Carey |
| Notes | Notes as for the first Bolle story. |
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| Letters Page | "Howdy, pardners" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | How the Indians played games. |
| Featuring | Roping 'n' Riding with Allan "Rocky" Lane |
| Credits | Script: Allan Rocky Lane (signed)? | Pencils: Ralph Carlson | Inks: Ralph Carlson |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse) |
| Notes | Art as on the other Carlson story. |
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| Comic Story | The Midnight Marauders (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A rancher who is running for sheriff has his ranch wrecked several times by masked hoodlums. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane |
| Credits | Pencils: John Forte? | Inks: John Forte |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse); Mr. Dykes (rancher); sheriff (crook) |
| Notes | The layout with many close up half-faces is very similar to Forte's signed story in Geronimo #2, so he may have pencilled it.
Inks credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Advertisement | Men - Women - Boys- Girls Prizes Given (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad to recruit salespeople for Religious Motto wall plaques. |
| Featuring | The FUNMan |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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