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Issue Details

Issue #418
Published August 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Official title in indicia is "Rusty Riley, a Boy, a Horse, and a Dog".

Cover Details - "A Boy, a Horse, and a Dog"

Characters Rusty Riley; Flip (dog)
Genre adventure
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Cover artist identification from Sam Savitt index by Leo Pando in Illustration Magazine #4 (2002).

35 page Rusty Riley story "Rusty becomes a stable boy at Milestone Farm"

Characters Rusty Riley; Flip (dog); Patty Miles; Quentin Miles; Tex Purdy; Junior Norton; Dr. Turnbull
Synopsis Rusty Riley, an orphan, loves horses and, after preventing a ex-jockey from injuring one of Quentin Miles' thoroughbreds, gets a job as a stable boy at the Miles horse farm.
Genre adventure
Script Rod Reed
Pencils Frank Godwin
Inks Frank Godwin
Notes Appears to be first story of the newspaper strip. Story starts on inside front cover (black and white) continues on inside back cover (black and white) and concludes on back cover in color. Three tiers of panels per page. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Reprinted from Rusty Riley (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948.