Indicia title is "Zane Grey's WILDFIRE, No. 433." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #433-5211. Copyright 1952 by Zane Grey, Inc.
"Published by arrangement with The Hawley Publications, Inc." "Picturized version adapted from "Wildfire" by Zane Grey, copyright, 1916, by Curtis Publications Co., copyright renewed, 1944 by Lina Elise Grey."
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Pamphlets, page 774 and the on stand date reported in the Comic Magazine Publishing Report (George W. Dougherty, 1942 series), #129 (October 1952).
Cover
Zane Grey's Wildfire / 1 page
Genre
Western-frontier
Pencils
Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks
Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors
Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Text Story
Home on the Range (1 page)
Synopsis
Lyrics to traditional cowboy song "Home on the Range."
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. One illustration with typeset text.
The lyrics to this version are taken from Alan Lomax's 1910 book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads.
Comic Story
Zane Grey's Wildfire (34 pages)
Synopsis
While on a training ride on the ranch race horse Sage King, Lucy Bostil finds a roped wild stallion tangled in a bed of cactus. She rescues the horse and soon afterwards finds Lin Slone, the man who roped it, who has an injured back. After both Lin and horse recover, Lucy enters the stallion, now named "Wildfire", in a big race, competing against her father's champion Sage King.
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
John Bostil; Van Sickle; Lucy Bostil; Joel Creech; Lin Slone; Len Creech
Script
Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation) Zane Grey (original story)
Pencils
Al McKimson Team
Inks
Al McKimson Team
Notes
Adapts Zane Grey's 1916 novel "Wildfire."
Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 181, 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).
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
The art here was originally credited to Harry Ramsey. The artwork is exactly identical to many Roy Rogers stories, #41,#46, etc. Some call it the Alvarado stories, as he was one the artists in the Al McKimson Team. Many of the later text stories in Roy Rogers is credited to this team too; #82.
Al McKimson was a pen name for several artists. First the brothers Chuck and Tom McKimson. Others were Pete Alvarado, John Ushler, Randy Steffen, Andrew Bensen, Hi Mankin, Mike Arens, Alex Toth. New art identification by Steinar Ådland January 2011.
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