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Issue Details

Issue #1215
Published October-December 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "TALES OF WELLS FARGO, No. 1215." Code number is WELLS F. O.S. #1215-6110. Copyright 1961 by Overland Productions, Inc.

Cover Details - "Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch"

Characters Jim Hardie (as played by Dale Robertson, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page Tales of Wells Fargo foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Thunder Over Lost Gulch / Brand of the Spur"

Characters Jim Hardie (as played by Dale Robertson, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the stories in the issue.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils ? (photo); Russ Heath
Inks ? (photo); Russ Heath
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of each story. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. 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).

15 page Tales of Wells Fargo story "Thunder Over Lost Soldier Gulch"

Characters Jim Hardie
Synopsis A disguised Hardie uses an old peddler's wagon to get supplies through an outlaw gang's blockade to miners in a remote gulch. A case of dynamite is part of Hardie's plan to get gold past the outlaws on the way out.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Script submitted on January 11, 1961. 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).

2 page filler "Forerunners of Wells Fargo"

Characters Major Chorpenning; Captain Woodward
Synopsis The trials of Major Chorpenning and Captain Woodward as they fulfill a contract to carry mail between Sacramento, Calif., and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the early 1850s.
Genre western; fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Script submitted on January 23, 1961. 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). Steven Grant challenged the original indexer crediting of the pencils to Russ Heath via the GCD Error List (20 February 2009).

15 page Tales of Wells Fargo story "Brand of the Spur"

Characters Jim Hardie
Synopsis Hardie trails a bandit who caused a stage to go off the side of a high mountain trail, killing the driver.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Script submitted on January 13, 1961. 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).

1 page filler "The Lost Dutchman Mine"

Synopsis The story of the "Lost Dutchman" mine in Arizona.
Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. 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 credit from Steven Grant via the GCD Error List (20 February 2009); the original indexer credited Russ Heath.

1 page filler "Speaking of Brands"

Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Russ Heath ?
Inks Russ Heath ?
Notes Back cover. Script submitted on January 23, 1961. 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). Some copies have an ad in place of this sequence. See Sequence 7.

1 page Kellogg's Corn Flakes advertisement "Official Huck Hound Club Special Membership Offer!"

Characters Yogi Bear (cameo); Huckleberry Hound (cameo); Pixie (cameo); Dixie (cameo); Mr. Jinks
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Ad for the Huck Hound Club sponsored by Kellogg's Corn Flakes breakfast cereal. Mail-in coupon to be sent with 15 cents and one boxtop. This ad replaces Sequence 6 on some copies.