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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published June-August 1956
Frequency Quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing George T. Delacorte, Jr. (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Notes Designed, produced, and © 1956, by Western Printing & Lithographing Company.

Cover Details

Characters Rex Allen (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Photo cover

1 page filler "Pay Dirt!"

Synopsis Article about methods of separating gold from sand and gravel used in the California Gold Rush.
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Black and white. Large illustration with typeset text.

14 page Rex Allen story "The Fort"

Characters Rex Allen; Koko (horse); Sheriff Duncan; Deputy Chet Morse; Hardtack; Mike Cannon; Matt; Pete; Cal Cannon
Synopsis First line: "Rex Allen and his old friend, Sheriff Duncan, ride into the foothills near the little town of Elkhorn..."
Genre western
Pencils Nicholas Firfires
Inks Nicholas Firfires ?

4 page Tales of the Roaring West story "The Badman"

Characters Hector Webb; Gent Lacey; Bruno Vaden
Synopsis First line: "Hector Webb, head of Granite City´s Shool Board, is in a strange setting as he meets a new textbook salesman..."
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle

1 page text story "Big Foot"

Synopsis First line: "The Frontier Days celebration in the town of Mile-High, intended to be a week of revival of its trail town youth, had somehow gone sour."
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with 1/8 page highly-stylized title illustration.

13 page Rex Allen story "No Time to Spare"

Characters Rex Allen; Koko (horse); Sheriff Regan; Gage Kemper; Jim Stanley
Synopsis First line: "Late one night, Rex enters the town of Sunrise to visit his friend, Jim Stanley..."
Genre western
Pencils Nat Edson
Inks Nat Edson

1 page filler "Comstock Underground"

Synopsis Article about a "war" fought between two competing groups of miners who accidently connected their mines underground.
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover. Black and white. Large illustration with typeset text.

1 page Rex Allen illustration "Rex Allen"

Characters Rex Allen (photo)
Synopsis Rex Allen strikes a casual pose leaning against a building.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover. Color photograph with no text.