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Issue Details

Issue #1113
Published July-September 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "TALES OF WELLS FARGO, No, 1113." Code number is WELLS F.O.S. #1113-607. Copyright 1960 by Overland Productions, Inc. Based on the "Tales of Wells Fargo" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Jim Hardie (as played by Dale Robertson, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "TALES OF WELLS FARGO, No, 1113." Code number is WELLS F.O.S. #1113-607. Copyright 1960 by Overland Productions, Inc. Based on the "Tales of Wells Fargo" TV series.

1 page Tales of Wells Fargo foreword, introduction, preface, afterword The Trail of "Burro Sam" / Avalanche Pass

Characters Jim Hardie (as played by Dale Robertson, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories.

16 page Tales of Wells Fargo story The Trail of "Burro Sam"

Characters Jim Hardie; Jubilee (horse)
Synopsis When a stage is robbed and the driver killed, all the evidence points to an old prospector named Burro Sam. Hardie thinks the evidence is too obvious and does his own investigation.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Script submitted on October 9, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page Tales of Wells Fargo story "Avalanche Pass"

Characters Jim Hardie; Jubilee (horse)
Synopsis Hardie is helping guard a shipment of old currency that is being sent back to the mint to be destroyed. The train carrying the shipment is partially buried in an avalanche and then is attacked by robbers.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script sent November 14, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Stagecoach Hazards"

Synopsis Hazards of stagecoach travel in the old West.
Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Letters typeset
Notes Script submitted on November 30, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "How Wells Fargo Captured Black Bart"

Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Notes Back cover. Script submitted on November 30 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 6.

1 page Daisy Air Rifles advertisement New and First Air Rifle Shooting "Ricochet Sound"

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Ad for Daisy Air Rifles. Models No. 95 and 97 for $9.95 and model No. 99 for $14.95 are depicted. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Rogers, Ark. This ad replaces Sequence 5 in some copies.