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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published January 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Full indicia for first time in a Roy Rogers comic. Color publicity photo, close-up of Roy, pre-1947.

Cover Details

Characters Roy Rogers (photo)
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Full indicia for first time in a Roy Rogers comic. Color publicity photo, close-up of Roy, pre-1947.

Roy Rogers filler

Characters Roy Rogers (photo)
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Notes Inside front cover: B&W, posed photo, close-up, Roy and original Trigger

Roy Rogers story "Roy Rogers in the Secret of Thunder River"

Synopsis Roy solves a murder mystery.
Script Gaylord DuBois.
Pencils Albert Micale (Micale has taken over as full-time artist)
Inks Albert Micale (Micale has taken over as full-time artist)
Notes Original copyright, November 28, 1947, in name of Roy Rogers: B 109939. DuBois submitted story November 4, 1946. Writer has Roy calling female "sister", a common terminology of the era.

2 page Great Lawmen of the Old West text story "John Slaughter of Tombstone."

Pencils ? (illustration)
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Letters Typeset
Notes Two-pages, illustrated text, Western history. Submitted by writer, June 13, 1947.

Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story "Brownie"

Synopsis This is a paneled story, focused upon past adventures of old man, being related to his charges, twins Pat and Pete. Copyright is in name of Oscar Lebeck, with the Western Co.
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Harry Parks (Parkhurst; signed, last panel)
Inks Harry Parks (Parkhurst; signed, last panel)
Notes It is believed that the first three of these stories were either submitted as "Bunkhouse Harmonies", or the first four tales were not written by DuBois, and his "Bunkhouse Harmonies" were not used

Roy Rogers filler

Characters Roy Rogers (Photo)
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Notes Inside back cover: B&W, posed-for-comics photo (as if film still), shows Roy, on filming location, entering cabin, six-shooter in hand. Photographer accidentally captured film crew man in background.

Roy Rogers (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Characters Roy Rogers (photo)
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover: Color shot from series taken of Roy, in black hat, with daughters. Roy is explaining something about a lariat.