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Issue Details

Issue #511
Published November 1953-January 1954
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's OUTLAW TRAIL (The Border Legion), No. 511." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #511-5311. Copyright 1953 by Zane Grey, Inc.

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's Outlaw Trail"

Characters Joan Randle; Jim Cleve
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Zane Grey's Outlaw Trail"

Characters Joan Randle; Jim Cleve; Jack Kells; Bill Hoadley; Gulden
Synopsis Introduction to characters in the story.
Genre western
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Headshots plus typeset text.

34 page story "Zane Grey's Outlaw Trail"

Characters Joan Randle; Jim Cleve; Jack Kells; Bill Hoadley; Gulden
Synopsis Spurned by Joan Randle, Jim Cleve goes to join Jack Kells' gang of outlaws, the Border Legion. Joan follows Cleve, but gets captured by Kells. She poses as Kells' wife when the gang comes to get Kells to go to his ranch on the Idaho border. Cleve comes to join the gang right before they head to Adler Gulch, which has become a boom town because of discovery of a rich gold strike.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Adapted from the 1916 novel "The Border Legion" by Zane Grey. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).