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Issue Details

Issue #299
Published October 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BUCK JONES and the IRON HORSE TRAIL, No. 299." Code number is B.J.O.S. #299-5010. Copyright 1950 by Mrs. Odille D. Jones. Continues as Buck Jones #2 (April-June 1951).

Cover Details - "Buck Jones and the Iron Horse Trail"

Characters Buck Jones
Genre western
Pencils Nicholas Firfires (painting)
Inks Nicholas Firfires (painting)
Colors Nicholas Firfires (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Cover artist ID taken from the back cover, which is signed.

2 page filler "Winning the West"

Synopsis Brief overview of the settling of the American West.
Genre fact; western
Pencils August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Inks August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover and inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and typeset text.

48 page Buck Jones story Buck Jones and the "Iron Horse Trail"

Characters Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse); Sage Hotchkiss; Dan Hotchkiss; John Ogden; Melissa Ogden; Rush Morgan (villain)
Synopsis Buck gets involved in a plot by the owner of a stagecoach line to extort money from a competing railroad to buy out his now-obsolete business.
Genre western
Script Phillip Evans ?
Notes Script credit from "Who's Who in American Comics Books 1928-1999" website.

1 page [Buck Jones] illustration "Buck Roping a Steer"

Characters Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
Synopsis Buck Jones astride Silver-B, roping a steer.
Genre western
Pencils Nicholas Firfires (signed) (painting)
Inks Nicholas Firfires (signed) (painting)
Colors Nicholas Firfires (signed) (painting)
Notes Back cover.