Credits
Writer(s):
Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s):
Morris Gollub
Inker(s):
Morris Gollub
Colorist(s):
?
Letterer(s):
?
Subject Matter
Genres:
western
Feature(s):
The Kiyotee Kids
Character(s):
Ted Lucas (eldest Kiyotee, earnest leadership); Sandy Rivers (female Kiyotee, intelligent initiative, believer, soft on Ted); Billy Haynes (youngest Kiyotee, resourceful, faithful to Ted, useful); Dr. Rivers (Alkali town physician, Sandy's dad, volunteer vigilante); Mr. Lucas (Alkali town newspaperman, Ted's dad, volunteer vigilante); Mr. Haynes (Alkali town store proprietor, Billy's dad, volunteer vigilante); three other volunteer vigilantes (friends of the Kiyotees' dads); Silk Seldon (crooked gambler, vicious deadly leader of the bad element that controlled Alkali town); Lobo Lagrue (Seldon's partner in crime); six gun hands of Seldon and Lagrue; Sheriff Simms (husky former pet lawman of Seldon's, now conveniently but sincerely repentant, knows which side his bread is buttered on as Kiyotee winds of change bring political reversals to the town of Alkali)
First Line:
Yip Yip Yap YEOW-OO-OO-O
Synopsis:
Seldon and gang embark to ambush the vigilante volunteers. The Kiyotees expose and thwart their villainy.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
8
Notes:
Story continued from last issue's episode. Story continues in next issue's episode.
In Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1927 Barsoom novel The Master Mind of Mars, chapters 12 and 13 (Xaxa; and The Great Tur), the protagonists use a speaking tube within the hollow giant stone idol to make it appear as though the idol speaks (cf. the narrative of Bel, chapter 14, the extended [Apocrypha] Book of Daniel). Now here within the Coyote Rock, a hollow butte naturally occurring in the shape of a coyote howling at the sky (cf. Grandfather Mountain), Ted uses a speaking hose for similar ventriloquism. Author Du Bois, himself an ERBophile as well as a lay preacher licensed by the Church of the Nazarene, and a former Episcopal seminarian, as well as having traveled extensively throughout these United States (at the behest of his Western Publishing editor for the purpose of improving his stories), would likely have known and borrowed from these sources.
The themes of volunteerism, and of community organizers, which concretize in this series and this episode, are frequent themes in Du Bois's writings, e.g. very explicitly so in his latter run on Lassie.
Artist and writer identifications by David Porta, 2018 July. Du Bois writer credit as per author's Account Books as transcribd by Randall Scott 1985, page 89.
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