Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1262." Code number is THE REBEL O.S. #1262-6111. Copyright 1961 by The Rebel Company. Cover title is "Johnny Yuma's Journal The Rebel." Fourth of four "The Rebel" Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series. On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
This issue exists in ad and non-ad versions. See the index for Four Color #1262 [ad].
Cover
The Frightened Town / 1 page
Feature
The Rebel
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Yuma (photo of Nick Adams)
Foreword/Afterword
The Frightened Town / Cloud of Danger (1 page)
Feature
The Rebel
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
?; ? (photo)
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Yuma (photo of Nick Adams)
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script submitted on April 13, 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). This sequence is replaced with a promo in some copies.
Comic Story
The Frightened Town (15 pages)
Synopsis
Yuma fights off robbers as he takes a stage. When the stage arrives at its destination, a fellow passenger learns that her father, the town's sheriff, had been killed three months earlier. The woman had seen one of the bandits' unmasked face and Yuma has to protect her from retribution. Later Yuma overhears a conversation that deepens the mystery regarding the woman's father.
Feature
The Rebel
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Yuma
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
George Roussos ? Mike Peppe ?
Notes
Script submitted on March 28, 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 and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
The Flying Norseman (2 pages)
Feature
The Rebel
Genre
Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Mike Peppe ?
Notes
Script submitted on April 13, 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 and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by a centerfold ad in some copies.
Comic Story
Cloud of Danger (15 pages)
Synopsis
Yuma is ambushed by Wolf Yorick during a blizzard and is forced to guide the man to the Big Nugget mining camp. At the camp, Yorick holds a young girl captive to force the miners to give him her weight in gold.
Feature
The Rebel
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Yuma
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Frank Giacoia ?
Notes
Script submitted on April 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). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Half of the last page is replaced by an ad in some copies.
Comic Story
Sierra Gold (1 page)
Synopsis
Facts about finding gold in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Feature
The Rebel
Genre
Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Sequence has The Rebel logo, but the characters do not appear. Script submitted on April 13, 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 for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
The "Long Tom" (1 page)
Feature
The Rebel
Genre
Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Notes
Back cover. Script submitted on April 13, 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 for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.
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