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Issue Details

Issue #160
Published August 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS COMICS, No. 160." Code number is R.R.O.S. #160-478. Copyright 1947 by Roy Rogers. Some information for this index, especially the pinups, is from the late Robert Phillips.

Cover Details

Characters Roy Rogers (photo)
Synopsis Posed-for-comics photo shows Roy, six-shooter in hand.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page Roy Rogers illustration "Roy and Dale"

Characters Roy Rogers (photo); Dale Evans (photo)
Synopsis Pre-1947 candid-like shot of Roy and leading lady Dale Evans, strolling on what is likely a filming location.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Notes Inside front cover: black and white.

48 page Roy Rogers story "Roy Rogers and the Guns of Mystery Mountain"

Characters Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Kay Roberts; Dent Roberts; Larry Parsons
Synopsis Roy Rogers; Kay Roberts, a rancher's daughter; and Larry Parsons, the ranch's foreman, deal with cattle rustlers who operate out of an abandoned mine.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Albert Micale; Jesse Marsh (art assist?); Erwin Hess (art assist?)
Inks Albert Micale; Jesse Marsh (art assist?); Erwin Hess (art assist?)
Notes Script submitted by Gaylord Du Bois on September 9, 1946. Albert Micale art credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Robert Phillips said possible Erwin Hess and/or Jesse Marsh contribution on pencils and inks.

1 page Roy Rogers illustration "Roy and Dale on Trigger"

Characters Roy Rogers (photo); Dale Evans (photo); original Trigger (photo)
Synopsis Pre-1947, posed-for-comics (as if film still) photo shows Roy and Dale on original Trigger in an action scene. Facsimile autograph.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Roy Rogers illustration "Roy and Trigger"

Characters Roy Rogers (photo); original Trigger (photo)
Synopsis Publicity photo has Roy sitting astride original Trigger.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover; Color; horizontal photo.