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Issue Details

Issue #1159
Published January-February 1961
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "77 SUNSET STRIP, No. 1159." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP O.S. #1159-611. Copyright 1960 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series. Last Four Color with a 10 cent price printed on it.

Cover Details

Characters Jeff Spencer (as played by Roger Smith, photo); Stuart Bailey (as played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., photo); Kookie (as played by Edd Byrnes, photo)
Genre detective
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "77 SUNSET STRIP, No. 1159." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP O.S. #1159-611. Copyright 1960 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series. Last Four Color with a 10 cent price printed on it.

1 page 77 Sunset Strip story "The Money Wagon / The Night Visitor"

Characters Jeff Spencer (as played by Roger Smith, photo); Stuart Bailey (as played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., photo); Kookie (as played by Edd Byrnes, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Pencils Alex Toth; ? (photo)
Inks Alex Toth; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories in the issue. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page 77 Sunset Strip story "The Money Wagon"

Characters Stuart Bailey; Jeff Spencer; Kookie
Synopsis Kookie buys an old car to look more sophisticated, but the car attracts unwelcome attention from some hoods who want to steal it.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page 77 Sunset Strip story "The Night Visitor"

Characters Stuart Bailey; Jeff Spencer; Kookie
Synopsis A young man is accused of murdering his boss. He stumbles across Bailey and Spencer's office and tells his story. The pair take him to the police, then start investigating to see if they can find the real murderer.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page 77 Sunset Strip filler "Clues To The Missing"

Characters Stuart Bailey (cameo)
Synopsis How personal habits help investigators find missing persons.
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
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Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page 77 Sunset Strip story "Kookie's Quandary"

Characters Kookie
Synopsis Kookie pretends that he's a detective in order to impress a girl, but later she meets him at his real job--parking cars.
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 6.

1 page Daisy Air Rifles advertisement "My Christmas Gift to You..."

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Notes Back cover. Ad for Daisy Air Rifles. Model No. 99 for $14.95; Model No. 97 for $9.95; Model #25 for $9.95; and Model No. 179 for $7.95 are depicted. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Rogers, Ark. This ad replaces Sequence 5 in some copies.