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Issue Details

Issue #246
Published September 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's THUNDER MOUNTAIN, No. 246." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #246-499. Copyright 1949 by Zane Grey, Inc. Published by arrangement with The Hawley Publications, Inc., authorized edition.

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's Thunder Mountain"

Genre western
Pencils Morris Gollub (painting)
Inks Morris Gollub (painting)
Colors Morris Gollub (painting)
Notes Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Freight Wagon"

Synopsis Facts about freight companies in the Old West.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Till Goodan
Inks Till Goodan
Letters Till Goodan
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.

32 page story "Thunder Mountain"

Characters Kalispel Emerson; Sam Emerson; Jake Emerson; Syndey Blair; Cliff Borden; Rand Leavitt (villain)
Synopsis Three brothers find a lode of gold at Thunder Mountain. Before they can get the claim registered, one of the brothers is killed by a claim jumper and the other is beaten and robbed of his ore sample. A boom town rises around the new mine while the youngest brother plots to find a way to force Rand Leavitt, the mine's owner to admit to the murder.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Harry L. Parks (H.V.L. Parkhurst)
Inks Harry L. Parks (H.V.L. Parkhurst)
Notes Adapted from the 1932 novel "Thunder Mountain" by Zane Grey. Art identification from Hames Ware (November 9, 2010).

1 page filler "The Buckboard"

Synopsis Facts about the buckboard wagon.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Till Goodan
Inks Till Goodan
Letters Till Goodan
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page illustration "Riders Fleeing a Landslide"

Synopsis Two mounted cowboys fleeing from a landslide.
Genre western
Pencils Morris Gollub (painting)
Inks Morris Gollub (painting)
Colors Morris Gollub (painting)
Notes Back cover. Same artist as front cover.