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Issue Details

Issue #1291
Published March-May 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "77 Sunset Strip, No. 1291." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP O.S. #1291-622. Copyright 1962 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. [as Stuart Bailey (photo)]; Edward Byrnes [as Kookie (photo)]; Roger Smith [as Jeff Spencer (photo)]
Genre detective
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "77 Sunset Strip, No. 1291." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP O.S. #1291-622. Copyright 1962 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series.

1 page 77 Sunset Strip foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Return of the Fugitive / Man on a Ledge"

Characters Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. [as Stuart Bailey (photo)]; Edward Byrnes [as Kookie (photo)]; Roger Smith [as Jeff Spencer (photo)]
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre detective
Pencils Russ Manning; ? (photo)
Inks Russ Manning; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo from the TV series plus two panels from each of the two stories in the issue.

16 page 77 Sunset Strip story "Return of the Fugitive"

Characters Stuart Bailey; Kookie; Roscoe; Hiram Greer
Synopsis A man returns from a five-year stint in the Orient to discover that he's wanted for embezzlement. He engages Stu to find to find the guilty man. The trail takes them to South America in search of a man who may provide the solution to the case.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Shaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

15 page 77 Sunset Strip story "Man On A Ledge"

Characters Jeff Spencer; Kookie; Stuart Bailey
Synopsis A man sitting on a ledge and threatening to jump provides a distraction that lets two men rob a nearby bank. The action plays out exactly like the plot of a movie due to be released and Jeff and Kookie go to the movie studio to see who had access to the film script.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning ?
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Art looks like Manning may have had assists from other artists. Store name in panel one of page 13 of the story says "Manning." Other store in same panel is named "Doe's" (Manning's wife's name.)

1 page 77 Sunset Strip story "Cool Thinking"

Characters Stuart Bailey; Kookie
Synopsis Kookie's jive talk trips up a robber who disguised himself as a Mexican immigrant.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Private Police"

Synopsis Facts about private police forces.
Genre fact
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page 77 Sunset Strip filler "Fences"

Synopsis Description of the activities of "fences" used to traffic in stolen goods.
Genre fact
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "77 Sunset Strip" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)