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Issue Details

Issue #486
Published [August 1953]
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Official title in indicia is "Rusty Riley, a Boy, a Horse, and a Dog". Cover artist identification from Sam Savitt index by Leo Pando in Illustration Magazine #4 (2002.) Cover scene does not appear in interior story.

Cover Details - "A Boy, a Horse, and a Dog"

Characters Rusty Riley; Flip (dog)
Genre adventure
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Official title in indicia is "Rusty Riley, a Boy, a Horse, and a Dog". Cover artist identification from Sam Savitt index by Leo Pando in Illustration Magazine #4 (2002.) Cover scene does not appear in interior story.

35 page Rusty Riley story "Dr. Quinn's Double"

Characters Rusty Riley; Flip (dog); Patty Miles; Quentin Miles; Tex Purdy; Greg Storm (villain); Dr. William Quinn (intro); Dr. Turnbull
Synopsis After an auto accident, a drifter steals the identity of Dr. Quinn, who is coming to work at the Miles Farm. The impostor becomes involved in a scheme by gamblers to inject thoroughbred "Big Blaze" with performance-enhancing drugs so that he will be disqualified after winning a big race.
Genre adventure
Script Frank Godwin
Pencils Frank Godwin
Inks Frank Godwin
Notes Story begins on inside front cover (black and white) continues on inside back cover (black and white) and concludes on back cover (color). Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Rusty Riley (King Features) newspaper strips from 1948-49.