Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1102." Code number is WANT. D. or A. O.S. #1102-605. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Cover logo and story logos have exclamation point, indicia does not. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Cover
Payment Delayed / 1 page
Feature
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Foreword/Afterword
Payment Delayed / Badman in Blue (1 page)
Synopsis
Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Feature
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Pencils
?; ? (photo)
Inks
?; ? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Photo plus two-panel previews of each story.
Comic Story
Payment Delayed (15 pages)
Synopsis
A bank robber disappears after robbing a bank of $9,000 and killing the cashier and bank president. A year later, Josh Randall tries to pick up his trail.
Feature
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Andrew Bascom [Croak Bascom]
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
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).
Text Article
Bounty Hunters of the Sierra (1 page)
Synopsis
History of the use of bounty hunters by the Mexican government against the Apache and Comanche Indians in the Sierra Madres from the 1830s to the 1870s.
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
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).
Text with three illustrations.
Comic Story
Badman In Blue (16 pages)
Synopsis
Josh Randall trails a wanted killer and finds him riding with the cavalry, disguised as a trooper.
Feature
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Jason Fleager
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
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).
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Comic Story
The Man Hunt (1 page)
Synopsis
The process of how the bounty system developed.
Feature
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Genre
Western-frontier
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
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, which states: "The Man Hunt. cover #3 for Wanted, Dead or Alive, stock. Sent October 27, 1959." Cover #3. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta (October 2013).
Inside back cover; black and white. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo is at the top of the page, but no characters appear.
Advertisement
This is a Kangarooseal (1 page)
Feature
Kraft Caramels
Letters
typeset
Notes
Back cover. Part of a series of "hybrid animals" ads from Kraft Caramels candy.
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