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Issue Details

Issue #895
Published March 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WAGON TRAIN, No. 893." Code number is W.T.O.S. #895-583. Copyright 1958 by Revue Productions, Inc. Based on the 1957-65 NBC/ABC TV series "Wagon Train." First of three Wagon Train Four Color issues.

Cover Details

Characters Major Seth Adams (as played by Ward Bond, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset

1 page Wagon Train foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Wagons Roll On..."

Characters Major Seth Adams (as played by Ward Bond, photo); Flint McCullough (as played by Robert Horton, photo)
Synopsis Short introduction to series.
Genre western
Pencils ?; ? (photos)
Inks ?; ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos, one illustration, and brief typeset text.

17 page Wagon Train story "Fury at Blue River"

Characters Major Seth Adams; Flint McCullough
Synopsis Major Adams' wagon train comes under attack by outlaws at a ford at Blue River. An old man, a former marshal, goes by himself to find the outlaw's hideout.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Nicholas Firfires
Inks Nicholas Firfires
Letters Nicholas Firfires
Notes Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

15 page Wagon Train story "Sioux Ambush"

Characters Major Seth Adams; Flint McCullough
Synopsis A school teacher is forced to bury the textbooks for her school when the wagon train is attacked by a band of renegade Sioux Indians and is forced to flee to the Army fort. The Major and Flint end up accompanying the teacher back to the spot where she buried the books in order to protect her from the Sioux.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Nicholas Firfires
Inks Nicholas Firfires
Letters Nicholas Firfires
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Scout"

Synopsis Duties of the scout for a wagon train.
Genre fact; western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Nicholas Firfires
Inks Nicholas Firfires
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Wagon Master"

Synopsis Duties of the wagon master of a wagon train.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Nicholas Firfires
Inks Nicholas Firfires
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).