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Issue Details

Issue	#80
Published	October 1953
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	George T. Delacorte, Jr. (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)

Cover Details

Characters	Gene Autry (photo)
Genre	Western
Pencils	? (photo)
Inks	? (photo)
Colors	? (photo)

1 page Dell promo (ad from the publisher) "Hey, look! There's Gene Autry!"

Characters	Gene Autry (drawing)
Genre	Western
Notes	Subscription ad from the publisher, with short comic strip in full color.

23 page Gene Autry story "Gene Autry in Loggin' Trouble"

Characters	Gene Autry; Champion (horse); Scott Bailey; Bub; Marty Murdoch (villain); Tony Bixel (villain); Stowe
Synopsis	Two logger camps are competing to get their logs to the mill first, and Gene wonder if Murdoch is in cahoot with the other camp, and trying to get Bailey, but he can't prove it, yet...
Genre	Western

15 page Gene Autry story "The Dice Tattoo"

Characters	Gene Autry; Champion (horse); Windy Timmons; Glen Merrill; Max (villain); Scott (villain)
Synopsis	Gene is nearly run down by two men in a speeding car, and finds out they were bankrobbers on the run. Later he and Windy meets up with them at a Rodeo...
Genre	Western
Pencils	Nicholas Firfires
Inks	Nicholas Firfires
Notes	Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.23)

2 page text story "The Curly Bill"

Characters	Sheriff Red Mason; "Slick" Thompson
Synopsis	Trying to arrest a suspect, the Sheriff is taken by surprise and drops his gun, but he knows the Curly Bill spin...
Genre	Western
Letters	Typeset

6 page Panhandle Pete story "Tit for Tat"

Characters	Panhandle Pete; Tommy; Janey
Synopsis	Pete is telling stories just for laughs this time, of dumb burros and arrested woodpiles...
Genre	Western
Pencils	Tony Sgroi
Inks	Tony Sgroi
Notes	Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.23)

1 page filler "The Pike's Peak Saga"

Synopsis	A very few made it rich in the Pike's Peak gold rush in 1859, and many turned back...
Genre	Western; fact
Pencils	August Lenox (signed)
Inks	August Lenox (signed)
Letters	Typeset

1 page filler "The Great Buffalo Hunt"

Genre	Western; fact
Pencils	August Lenox (signed)
Inks	August Lenox (signed)
Letters	Typeset

1 page Schwinn Bikes advertisement "Hey Kids! Bike back to school on the best!"

Letters	Typeset
Notes	A kid in cowboy outfit roping a bike

1 page Wheaties advertisement "Spark Up...you need stamina to pitch!"

Characters	Robin Roberts
Notes	Baseball comic strip in full color from Wheaties "Breakfast of Champions"