Best Place to Sell Roy Rogers Comics #5

Publisher: Dell, 1948

About Roy Rogers Comics #5

Photo cover. Back cover photo pin-up.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Roy Rogers (photo)

Pencils: ? (photograph)

Inks: ? (photograph)

Colors: ? (photograph)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Cover #1. Photo Cover (Color, candid-like photo shows Roy between two Palomino horses, the one on his right believed to be "Little Trigger," one of the most used-for-shows doubles for the original Trigger; the one on his left unknown.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Badland Bullets

Characters: Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Slick Pomeroy (a gunman / rustler / bank-robber who holds the mortgage on the Alvin Dean ranch); Nella Dean (rancher Bob Dean's daughter); a riderless horse wearing a blood-spattered kak; Peter Smythe (an archeologist hunting Indian relics); Deputy Sheriff Hazen and his posse

Synopsis: In the badlands Slick shoots Nella's horse. Nella takes Roy for Slick. He wins her trust. Using the riddle on a deerskin poke Nella seeks Grandpa's gold cache to pay the mortgage. Roy finds her a horse with saddle. They find three robbers' graves and a note, then Pete who dispatched them, digging relics right where the gold is cached. The deputy and posse fire on Roy and company thinking they are the four bank-robbers. Nella wins their trust. Pete is revealed young; gives Nella the gold. Slick is caught red-handed with rustled cattle and the bank swag. Pete and Nella romance. Roy departs.

Pages: 24.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Albert Micale (signed)

Inks: Albert Micale

Notes: The brand name "Stetson" was synonymous with the cowboy hat, and Du Bois uses it here. Trigger is returned to traditional color, and Roy's gear reverts back to yellow. Script sent by Du Bois September 15, 1947. Art signed "Albert Micale" on first panel. Very seldom were comics artists for Western Publishing permitted to sign their work, ESPECIALLY when it was applied to licensed characters such as Rogers. Script credit confirmed as per page 95, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1985). Script identification confirmed by David Porta, December 2013. Du Bois has Roy begin page 4 with dialog in which he quotes John Greenleaf Whittier's poem of 1864, "Barbara Frietchie": Nella Dean has him at gunpoint, and he makes a joke of it, saying, "I see! It's no use to say any more, Ma'am! 'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head --'"

Title: Bat Masterson

Characters: Barclay "Bat" Masterson; Billy Ogg; Bill Tyler; Cheyenne; Kiowa; Comanche; Quanah Parker; Dave Rudabaugh and gang; [Jack] Wagner; [Alf] Walker; Billy Thompson; Luke Short; Charlie Storms

Synopsis: Highlights of the colorful westerner's life. As a teen, Bat took part in the Battle of Adobe Walls in Texas, and killed Comanche Indians, Kiowa and Comanche Indians. He arrested Dave Rudabaugh and his gang. He avenged his brother, shooting the killers Wagner and Walker. He rescued Billy Thompson from lynching. He intervened in a feud between his friends Luke Short and Charlie Storms, at personal risk trying to be a peacemaker (but failed). He retired his guns while in his twenties and became a popular sports writer.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Albert Micale

Inks: Albert Micale

Letters: typeset

Notes: Script credit confirmed as per page 94, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1985). Script identification confirmed by David Porta, December 2013.

Title: "Hey! You--- Pete and Pat--- Git outa that sugar can!"

Characters: Chuckwagon Charley; Pete; Pat; Brunia (a bear), Brownie's mother; Brownie [the bear cub]; an old he-coon; Lige Baker, a farmer; Mrs. Baker; Baby June Baker; the two older Baker kids; hounds; two big Canada Lynxes

Synopsis: Charley tells Pat how Lige brought Brownie in the house on a chain Christmas morning. Baby June rides off with Brownie. The family borrow hounds to search. Meanwhile, Brownie saves Baby June from two big Canada Lynxes, then lumbers off as the search party arrives.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Harry Parks (Parkhurst; signed, last panel)

Inks: Harry Parks

Notes: Brownie the bear cub made his first appearance in Chuckwagon Charley's Tales episode #2 in Animal Comics #28. In this, Chuckwagon Charley's Tales episode #9, the kids ask Charley to tell them another story about Brownie the bear cub. Script credit confirmed as per page 95, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1985). Script identification confirmed by David Porta, December 2013.

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Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
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