0301 - Zane Grey's The Mysterious Rider | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52
Notes
Indicia title is "Zane Grey THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER, No. 301." (note that it is "Zane Grey," not "Zane Grey's.") Code number is Z.G.O.S. #301-5011. Copyright 1950 by Zane Grey, Inc. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1950 Pamphlets, page 688. Eighth of 26 Zane Grey Four Colors.
Cover
The Mysterious Rider / 1 page
Feature
Zane Grey
Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Genre
Western-frontier
Text Article
The Cowboy's Life (2 pages)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Notes
Inside front cover and inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and lyrics to the western song "The Cowboy's Life" in large type. Lyrics are from "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" collected by John A. Lomax, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929.
Comic Story
The Mysterious Rider (48 pages)
Synopsis
Bent Wade mistakenly kills an innocent man who was accompanying his wife and newborn daughter. His wife takes their daughter back east, but the wagon train they are traveling with is massacred by Indians. Bent Wade spends the next 20 years searching for his daughter, whose body was missing from the remains of the wagon train. He is seemingly cursed, as innocent men die by various means whenever he is around. His travels take him to Bill Bellhound's Whiteslides Ranch, where unknown to him, his daughter was taken 20 years ago when she was found in a grove of Columbine trees.
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Bent Wade; Bill Bellhounds; Jack Bellhounds; Columbine Bellhounds; Wilson Moore
Script
Gaylord Du Bois (adaptation) Zane Grey (novel)
Pencils
Bob Jenney
Inks
Bob Jenney
Notes
Adapts Zane Grey's 1921 novel "The Mysterious Rider."
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).
Text Story
The Pecos Queen (1 page)
Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Patty Morehead
Notes
Back cover. Painting with block of typeset lyrics to the western song "The Pecos Queen." Lyrics are from "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" collected by John A. Lomax, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929.
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