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Issue: Four Color #1102
Publication Date: May 1960
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Issues: #1102 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Western AdventureView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/31/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1102." Code number is WANT. D. or A. O.S. #1102-605. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Cover logo and story logos have exclamation point, indicia does not. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Josh Randall (photo of Steve McQueen)
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Pages: 1
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photo)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Josh Randall (photo of Steve McQueen)
Synopsis: Previews of the two stories in the issue.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Photo plus two-panel previews of each story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Josh Randall; Andrew Bascom [Croak Bascom]
Synopsis: A bank robber disappears after robbing a bank of $9,000 and killing the cashier and bank president. A year later, Josh Randall tries to pick up his trail.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.
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Bounty Hunters of the Sierra

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: History of the use of bounty hunters by the Mexican government against the Apache and Comanche Indians in the Sierra Madres from the 1830s to the 1870s.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.

Text with three illustrations.
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Badman In Blue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Josh Randall; Jason Fleager
Synopsis: Josh Randall trails a wanted killer and finds him riding with the cavalry, disguised as a trooper.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.

The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
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The Man Hunt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Synopsis: The process of how the bounty system developed.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 198, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott, which states: "The Man Hunt. cover #3 for Wanted, Dead or Alive, stock. Sent October 27, 1959." Cover #3.

Inside back cover; black and white. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo is at the top of the page, but no characters appear.
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This is a Kangarooseal

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kraft Caramels
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Part of a series of "hybrid animals" ads from Kraft Caramels candy.

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