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Issue Details

Issue #1164
Published March-May 1961
Cover Price 0:15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1164." Code number is WANTED DEAD O.A.O.S. #1164-615. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. There is an exclamation point on the title logo everywhere except in the indicia.

Cover Details - "Wanted: Dead or Alive!"

Characters Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1164." Code number is WANTED DEAD O.A.O.S. #1164-615. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. There is an exclamation point on the title logo everywhere except in the indicia.

1 page Wanted: Dead or Alive! foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Trail of the Bear / The Carved Bullet"

Characters Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils ?; ? (photo)
Inks ?; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories.

16 page Wanted: Dead or Alive! story "The Carved Bullet"

Characters Josh Randall
Synopsis Randall finds a man in an abandoned shack, delirious from blood poisoning after shooting himself in the foot. During the man's raving, Randall learns of a meeting of the gang of "Doc Cole, the most wanted man in California. Randall decides to go to the meeting and capture Cole.
Genre western

16 page Wanted: Dead or Alive! story "The Trail of the Bear"

Characters Josh Randall; Jase Nichols
Synopsis Randall and his friend Jase track Bear-Tracks Borrman through Apache territory. Borrman captures them and takes them to a cavern full of gold nuggets.
Genre western

1 page Wanted: Dead or Alive! filler "Famous Wanted Men"

Characters Joaquin Murieta; Tiburcio Vasquez; Bill Miner; Sam Bass; John Wesley Hardin; William P. Longley
Synopsis Brief biographies of six famous criminals of the old West.
Genre fact; western
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Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo in on the sequence, but no characters appear.

1 page Kraft Caramels advertisement "This is a Beaverbear"

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Notes Back cover. Part of series of "hybrid animals" ads for Kraft Caramels candy.