Indicia title is "TALES OF WELLS FARGO, No. 1215." Code number is WELLS F. O.S. #1215-6110. Copyright 1961 by Overland Productions, Inc.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Cover
Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch / 1 page
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson)
Foreword/Afterword
Thunder Over Lost Gulch / Brand of the Spur / Tales of Wells Fargo (1 page)
Synopsis
Previews of the stories in the issue.
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson)
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of each story. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Comic Story
Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch / Tales of Wells Fargo (15 pages)
Synopsis
A disguised Hardie uses an old peddler's wagon to get supplies through an outlaw gang's blockade to miners in a remote gulch. A case of dynamite is part of Hardie's plan to get gold past the outlaws on the way out.
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Jim Hardie
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Letters
John Duffy
Notes
Script submitted on January 11, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Comic Story
Forerunners of Wells Fargo (2 pages)
Synopsis
The trials of Major Chorpenning and Captain Woodward as they fulfill a contract to carry mail between Sacramento, Calif., and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the early 1850s.
Genre
Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Characters
Major Chorpenning; Captain Woodward
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Frank Giacoia
Letters
John Duffy
Notes
Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title and compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Steven Grant challenged the original indexer crediting of the pencils to Russ Heath via the GCD Error List (20 February 2009). Nick Caputo agrees on Sekowsky pencils and credits Frank Giacoia on inks.
Comic Story
Brand of the Spur / Tales of Wells Fargo (15 pages)
Synopsis
Hardie trails a bandit who caused a stage to go off the side of a high mountain trail, killing the driver.
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Jim Hardie
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Letters
John Duffy
Notes
Script submitted on January 13, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title and compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Comic Story
The "Lost Dutchman" Mine (1 page)
Synopsis
The story of the "Lost Dutchman" mine in Arizona.
Genre
Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Gil Kane
Inks
Russ Heath
Letters
John Duffy
Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils credit from Steven Grant via the GCD Error List (20 February 2009); the original indexer credited Russ Heath.
Comic Story
Speaking of Brands (1 page)
Genre
Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Russ Heath ?
Inks
Russ Heath ?
Notes
Back cover. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Some copies have an ad in place of this sequence. See Sequence 7.
Advertisement
Official Huck Hound Club Special Membership Offer! / Kellogg's Corn Flakes (1 page)
Back cover. Ad for the Huck Hound Club sponsored by Kellogg's Corn Flakes breakfast cereal. Mail-in coupon to be sent with 15 cents and one boxtop. This ad replaces Sequence 6 on some copies.
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