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Issue Details

Issue #916
Published July 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "RED RYDER RANCH COMICS, No. 916." Code number is R.RYDER.R.O.S. #916-587. Copyright 1958 by Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc. This issue continues from "Red Ryder Ranch Comics" (Dell, 1956 series) #151 (April-June 1957). Last issue of the Red Ryder series.

Cover Details - "The Empty Fort"

Characters Red Ryder
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "The Red Ryder Ranch..."

Characters Fred Harman (photo); Little Beaver (photo); Angelo Viana (photo); Richard Valzonis (photo)
Synopsis Three photos taken at Fred Harman's Red Ryder Ranch in Colorado, with commentary by Fred Harman.
Genre fact
Script Fred Harman
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Three photos and typeset text.

16 page Red Ryder story "The Empty Fort"

Characters Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Duchess; Sheriff Newt; Thunder (horse); Papoose (horse)
Synopsis Red Ryder and Little Beaver find an old prospector delirious with the heat. When they take the prospector to their home, two gunmen arrive and the prospector disappears, along with Little Beaver. Red Ryder goes to Rimrock and the whole town goes out searching for the pair. While they're gone a gang of bandits plunder the empty town.
Genre western
Script Fred Harman (signed)
Pencils Fred Harman (signed)
Inks Fred Harman (signed)

10 page Little Beaver story "Where There's Smoke"

Characters Little Beaver; Papoose (horse); Grandma Snapturtle; Chief; Sheriff Newt
Synopsis Little Beaver finds an injured man in the woods and takes him to the man's cabin. There he finds the man was shot in a robbery and his accomplices keep Little Beaver prisoner in the cabin. Little Beaver is able to send smoke signals by way of the cabin chimney to alert searchers of his plight.
Genre western

6 page Little Beaver story "A Hatful of Tricks"

Characters Little Beaver; Red Fox
Synopsis Peddlers offer the Navaho "white man's hats" in exchange for food and water. The peddlers' ultimate goal is to distract the tribe so they can steal their supply of turquoise.
Genre western
Script Fred Harman (signed)
Pencils Fred Harman (signed)
Inks Fred Harman (signed)
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

1 page text article "The Walk of the Burro"

Characters Big Jim Butler
Synopsis How Big Jim Butler found gold while chasing his burros near Tonopah, Nevada, in 1900.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Text with 1/3 page illustration.

1 page Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum advertisement "Have Fun Safely"

Synopsis Summer safety tips for pedestrians.
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum. Part of a "Summer Safety" series.