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Issue Details

Issue #144
Published April 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS COMICS, No. 144". Code number is R.R.O.S. #144-494. Copyright 1947 by Roy Rogers. Some information for this issue contributed by Robert Phillips.

Cover Details

Characters Roy Rogers (photo); original Trigger (horse, photo)
Synopsis Reversed negative, pre-1947 color photo shows Roy beside original Trigger, reins in hand.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page Roy Rogers illustration "Roy and Trigger"

Characters Roy Rogers (photo); original Trigger (horse, photo)
Synopsis Pre-1947; action-posed photo, outdoors, Roy on original Trigger.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

48 page Roy Rogers story "Roy Rogers on the Apache Trail"

Characters Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse)
Synopsis Roy comes across loot taken when Apaches wreck a train and rob the passengers. Finding a pocket watch of an old friend among the clothes, he takes it with him. He then runs into a sheriff and his posse and his possession of the watch makes him a prime suspect in the crime.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Erwin Hess; (possible Jesse Marsh; Irwin Myers contribution)
Inks Erwin Hess; (possible Jesse Marsh; Irwin Myers contribution)
Notes Script submitted by Gaylord Du Bois on June 21, 1946; Quite a change in likeness of Roy, with this artist. Trigger has sacrificed his white mane, white tail, Palomino markings, at the hands of colorists. (Art credits and comments by Robert Phillips.)

1 page Roy Rogers illustration "Roy and Trigger Publicity Photo"

Characters Roy Rogers (photo); original Trigger ? (horse, photo)
Synopsis Pre-1947, publicity photo, Roy riding original (?) Trigger. Facsimile signed "Roy Rogers".
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Roy Rogers illustration "Roy Playing Guitar"

Characters Roy Rogers (photo)
Synopsis Reversed negative, pre-1947, color photo shows Roy playing guitar, makes it appear he is left-handed.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover.