M-G-M's Lassie #2 Values

Publisher: Dell, 1951

About M-G-M's Lassie #2

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COVER DETAILS

Title: untitled

Characters: Lassie

Pencils: Mo Gollub (painting)

Inks: Mo Gollub (painting)

Colors: Mo Gollub (painting)

Notes: Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).

STORY DETAILS

(2 Stories)

Title: Lassie Keeps a Trust

Characters: The Old Gentlemen (Lassie's legal owner); Mr. Bennett (his investigators seek Lassie for the Old Gentlemen); Lassie (the wonder dog, a collie, Rocky's companion); Rocky Langford (vagabond orphan youth); Nary (homicidal malingerer, thief, kidnapper); Ribold (homicidal malingerer, thief, kidnapper); Ben (Rocky's orphan little-kid sidekick); Commando (Ben's scrappy pup); Mr. Lawrence (entrepreneur, Rocky's benefactor, employer, father-surrogate); Gerry Lawrence (Rocky-smitten daughter); Jamaica Inspector of Police; Binney (Jamaica Port Patrol Officer); Jarvis (Jamaica Port Patrol Officer); a Good Samaritan (a Jamaican peasant lady); Harbor Master (Captain of the Port, Kingston, Jamaica); Charter Pilot

Synopsis: The Old Gentleman seeks Lassie. Rocky calls the turn on malingerers. Gerry fears evil. Thieves crack Lawrence's office safe, steal £1000, abduct Rocky, Ben, Lassie and Commando, and spirit them away, bag and baggage, in Rocky's sloop, the Sea Gull, framing the boys. Mr. Lawrence loved the boys, is hurt by the apparent betrayal, reluctantly notifies the police. Gerry believes in Rocky. Plot twists abound. Lassie saves unconscious Gerry from drowning. Mr. Lawrence confesses his wrong to Rocky, asks forgiveness, confessing the boys are as kin. Rocky gulps. Lassie speaks: Yarp!l

Pages: 48.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Notes: The first (and only) appearance of Lassie's master occurs panels 1,3 page 1. He seeks her fate since her disappearance from the train (shown to readers in issue #1 p. 1 pl. 4). Investigators have tracked her movements, recapping issue #1, and believe her lost at sea (as did Rocky until p. 46 of that story). The Old Gentleman won't believe it, insisting ads be placed outside the states. Script credit per page 38, Du Bois Account Books, compiled from the originals by Randall W. Scott. This is another well-written juvenile novel in the comics medium, sequel to the first in issue #1, and picks up the continuity therefrom, developing the characters dramatically by means of a thrilling adventure plot, and introducing a new wrinkle, the Old Gentlemen. Du Bois themes and markers abound. Language (locale-inspired dialects); race (Jamaicans); religion (Gerry's premonition of evil; charity, "Lord bless you"; guilt, "Good Heavens! What have I done to those boys?"; forgiveness, "...if you lads can find it in your hearts..."); animals (livestock); nature (rural Jamaica, the sloop Sea Gull on the Caribbean, a squall); overcoming by wits, not force (entrusting Lassie to run home with the stolen cash); friendship and goodwill (Gerry's steadfastness; the Good Samaritan; the reconciling and expression of feeling kinship).

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