Indicia title is "MAN FROM WELLS FARGO, No. 1287." Code number is WELLS FARGO O.S. #1287-621. Copyright 1961 by Overland Productions, Inc. Based on the "Tales of Wells Fargo" TV series. On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. Continues as Man from Wells Fargo #01-495-207 (May-July 1962).
Cover
Montezuma's Pay-Off / 1 page
Feature
Man from Wells Fargo
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Jim Hardie (photo of Dale Robertson)
Notes
Error: Jim Hardie's name is spelled Jim Hardy in the cover text.
Foreword/Afterword
Montezuma's Pay-Off / Money in the Coffin (1 page)
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories. Script submitted on June 8, 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
Montezuma's Payoff (15 pages)
Synopsis
While tracking stage robber Chris Demaray, Hardie is captured by Demaray and a band of Ute Indians. Demaray leads Hardie to a forbidden area to try to find enough Aztec treasure to pay off Wells Fargo for the stage robberies.
Script submitted on May 29, 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
Aztec Gold in Southern Utah (2 pages)
Synopsis
A treasure hunt for Aztec gold in Kanab, Utah, in the early 1920s.
Script submitted on June 8, 1960. 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
Money in the Coffin (15 pages)
Synopsis
After two trains are robbed in the same general area, Hardie is assigned to guard a shipment of gold and silver that is due to pass through the same area.
Script submitted on May 26, 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
Montezuma's Legendary Treasure (1 page)
Synopsis
Legends of the hiding places of the gold of Aztec Emperor Montezuma.
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on June 8, 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). Sequence has "Man from Wells Fargo" logo on it, but no characters appear.
Comic Story
Famous Train Robberies (1 page)
Synopsis
An account of the robbery of a Union Pacific train in 1889.
Back cover. Script submitted on June 8, 1961, under the title "Famous Train Robberies - Wilcox Way." 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). Sequence has "Man from Wells Fargo" logo on it, but no characters appear.
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