| Issue | #278 |
| Published | May 1950 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "BILL ELLIOTT COMICS, No. 278." Code number is BILL ELLIOTT O.S. #278-505. Copyright 1950 by Stephen Slesinger. Published by arrangement with Stephen Slesinger, authorized edition. First Wild Bill Elliot Four Color. Continues as Wild Bill Elliott (Dell, 1950 series) with #2 (November 1950). |
| Characters | Bill Elliott (photo) |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Colors | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Bill Elliott (photo) |
| Synopsis | Full-page photo of Bill Elliott sitting on a fence holding a lariat noose in one hand and the rest of the rope in the other. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Full-page pin-up photo. |
| Characters | Bill Elliott; Stormy Night (horse); Clay Fielding |
| Synopsis | Bill is summoned by Clay Fielding to Marin County. There he finds that Fielding is in a conflict with Martin West and the Drag-W over the water rights to Spider Creek. Fielding needs the water for his paper mill. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Cary |
| Inks | Cary |
| Notes | Art is the same as the second story, which is signed "Cary." |
| Characters | Bill Elliott; Stormy Night (horse); Jim Huffner; Ollie Denton |
| Synopsis | Bill saves a man from quicksand in a river. He finds that the man and his partner had struck gold earlier and that his partner threw him into the quicksand so that he could register the claim in his name only. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Cary (signed) |
| Inks | Cary (signed) |
| Notes | Art is signed "Cary" in the splash panel. No other information is available about this artist on the Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. |
| Characters | Bill Elliott; Stormy Night (horse); Kit Roberts; "Devil" Devlin |
| Synopsis | Bill is camped on a rise above Rainbow Valley when he's awakened by the sound of riders. He follows them and interrupts their raid on a cattle herd in the valley. Bill finds that "Devil" Devlin is trying to buy out all the small ranchers in the valley and if they refuse he threatens to drive them out. Bill organizes a merged cattle drive of the small ranchers and brings in some gunfighters to offset the gunmen he expects Devlin to use to attack the herd. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Cary |
| Inks | Cary |
| Notes | Art is the same as the second story, which is signed "Cary." |
| Characters | Bill Elliott (photo) |
| Synopsis | Full figure shot of Bill Elliott with six-guns in each hand. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Full-page pin-up photo "autographed" Bill Elliott. |
| Characters | Bill Elliott (photo); Stormy Night (horse, photo) |
| Synopsis | Bill Elliot, dismounted with one foot on a chair, standing beside his horse Stormy Night. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Colors | ? (photo) |
| Notes | Back cover. Full-page horizontal color photo pin-up. |