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Issue Details

Issue #1243
Published November 1961-January 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "ELLERY QUEEN, No. 1243". Code number is ELLERY Q.O.S. #1243-6110. Copyright 1961 by Ellery Queen. Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Cover Details

Characters Ellery Queen
Genre detective
Pencils George Wilson (painting)
Inks George Wilson (painting)
Colors George Wilson (painting)
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Notes Indicia title is "ELLERY QUEEN, No. 1243". Code number is ELLERY Q.O.S. #1243-6110. Copyright 1961 by Ellery Queen. Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page advertisement "Yogi Bear Milk Mug and Huck Hound Cereal Bowl"

Characters Yogi Bear; Huckleberry Hound (cameo)
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Notes Inside front cover; color. Ad for Kellogg's OKs breakfast cereal. Premium offer is plastic Yogi Bear milk mug and Huck Hound cereal bowl set for 50ยข and one box top.

15 page Ellery Queen story "The Missing Man"

Characters Ellery Queen; Inspector Queen
Synopsis James Lawns, a partner in a jewelry operation, is missing, along with $200,000 in diamonds.
Genre detective
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks George Roussos ?; Mike Peppe ?
Notes Inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

2 page Ellery Queen Detective story "A False Alibi"

Characters Ellery Queen; Ellery Queen's father
Synopsis Ellery Queen has to decide which of three suspects robbed a jewelry store on a rainy night.
Genre detective
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks George Roussos ?; Mike Peppe ?
Notes Inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

15 page Ellery Queen story "The Witch's Victim"

Characters Ellery Queen
Synopsis Ellery investigates the case of Robin Perkins, who believes he is dying because of witchcraft.
Genre detective
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks George Roussos ?; Mike Peppe ?
Notes Inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Ellery Queen filler "Missing Men"

Characters Ambrose Bierce; Judge Crater
Synopsis True stories of persons who have disappeared and never been found.
Genre fact
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks George Roussos ?; Mike Peppe ?
Notes Inside back cover; color. Ellery Queen logo with title, but the character does not appear. Inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page advertisement "Schwinn American"

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Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Schwinn bicycles. Schwinn American model ($49.95) is depicted. Arnold, Schwinn, & Company, Chicago. Selling point is "Every part American made!"