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Issue Details

Issue #555
Published May-July 1954
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's RANGE WAR (Hash Knife Outfit), No. 555." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #555-544. Copyright 1954 by Zane Grey, Inc.

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's Range War"

Genre western
Pencils Hank Hartman (signed) (painting)
Inks Hank Hartman (signed) (painting)
Colors Hank Hartman (signed) (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "Range War"

Synopsis Explanation of the causes of range wars between cattlemen and sheep herders.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Text with two illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

34 page story "Zane Grey's Range War"

Characters Big Jim Traft; Jim Traft; Jed Stone; Croak Malloy; Bambridge; Ed Darnell; Glory Traft; Slinger Dunn; Molly Dunn
Synopsis The Hash Knife outfit has been using Yellow Jacket Valley as open range for their cattle. The owner of the Diamond Ranch now has proved ownership of the valley and his nephew and his friends must keep the Hash Knife cowboys from rustling the Diamond cattle.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); Gaylord Du Bois (adaptation)
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Based on the 1933 novel "Hash Knife Outfit" by Zane Grey. This is a sequel to "Drift Fence" by Zane Grey. (See Four Color #270 (March 1950) for an adaptation of that novel.) Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)