Issue Details

Issue	#997
Published	June 1959
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes	Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca"

Characters	Elfego Baca; Texas John Slaughter
Genre	western
Pencils	? (photo)
Inks	? (photo)
Colors	? (photo)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "As settlers move west ..."

Characters	Walt Disney
Pencils	? (photo)
Inks	? (photo)
Letters	typeset

16 page Tales of Texas John Slaughter story "In the year 1870, a young stranger rides ..."

Genre	western
Pencils	Dan Spiegle
Inks	Dan Spiegle
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted	in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #53 (November 1979) [reprint title: Tales of Texas John Slaughter]

16 page Elfego Baca story "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca"

Characters	Elfego Baca
Genre	western
Pencils	John Ushler
Inks	John Ushler
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Half page Texas John Slaughter text story "Texas John Slaughter"

Script	Stan Jones
Letters	typeset
Notes	Song lyrics.

Half page Elfego Baca text story "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca"

Script	Richard Dehr; Frank Miller
Letters	typeset
Notes	Song lyrics.

1 page story "Walt Disney Presents Two Men"

Characters	Elfego Baca; Texas John Slaughter
Genre	western
Pencils	? (photo)
Inks	? (photo)
Letters	typeset