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Issue Details

Issue #1045
Published November 1959-January 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "RESTLESS GUN, No. 1045." Code number is R.G.O.S. #1045-5911. Copyright 1959 by Window-Glen Production Company. Third of five Restless Gun Four Colors. Based on the 1957-59 NBC TV series "The Restless Gun."

Cover Details - "The Little Giant"

Characters Vint Bonner (as played by John Payne, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page Restless Gun foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Little Giant"

Characters Vint Bonner (as played by John Payne, photo)
Synopsis Preview of first story.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Two photos with typeset text.

16 page Restless Gun story "The Little Giant"

Characters Vint Bonner
Synopsis Vint Bonner helps Danny Barnes learn to shoot a rifle so that he can join his father and other men on a hunt for a cattle-killing mountain lion.
Genre western
Pencils Nat Edson
Inks Nat Edson
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Restless Gun story "Gunfight Trail"

Characters Vint Bonner
Synopsis Vint Bonner visits an old friend, Tom Temple, who has taken a job as a guard on a freight company. When his gun jams during a stage hold-up, Temple is suspected of being part of the gang and Bonner has to help prove his innocence.
Genre western
Pencils Nat Edson
Inks Nat Edson
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Restless Gun filler "Double-Duty Guns"

Characters Vint Bonner (cameo)
Synopsis Facts about guns designed to be used for dual purposes, like Vint Bonner's pistol that converts into a rifle.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Sparky Moore
Inks Sparky Moore
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Range Enemies...Large and Small"

Genre fact; western
Pencils Sparky Moore
Inks Sparky Moore
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letter credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007) This sequence was replaced by an ad in some copies. See sequence 6.

1 page "Fresh up" Freddie says; Seven-Up advertisement "What's a famous chef's secret for making food taste better?"

Characters "Fresh up" Freddie
Synopsis Freddie is chief chef at the Hot Dog Palace.
Genre funny animal
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Ad in comic form for Seven-Up soft drink. Part of "Fresh up" Freddie says: "Right now you're probably asking yourself-" series based on animated TV commercials. This ad replaces sequence 5 in some copies.