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Issue: Black Fury #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1955
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Issues: #3 of 57 Issues (60 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred V. Fago (Executive Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, western
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRodeo #28 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Captive of "Mustang" Long

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, western
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Powdersmoke Payoff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, western
Feature(s): Black Fury
Character(s): Bart Wade (name change from Cody)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCody of the Pony Express #1 published September 1950
was Powdersmoke Payoff [Story on Interior Page(s)]characters renamed
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This reprint is a prime example of two early phenomena at Charlton: (1) re-purposing inventory material from other publishers; and (2) editing reprints to appease Comics Code Authority censors. As previous indexers noted, the name of the lead character (Cody of the Pony Express) was changed to Bart Wade, and the wild stallion was changed from "Panther" to "Black Fury." But the entire encounter between Cody/Bart and Panther/Black Fury was rewritten. In the original, the bad guys shoot the heroes' horse in order to stop his mission, and the hero (Cody) has to "stalk" and then "break" the horse (Panther). In the revision, Bart's horse is only lamed as he falls off (because he, not the horse, was the target) and lies unconscious as the villains ride away. Then Black Fury nobly comes forward and literally offers himself to Bart as his new ride. Several panels from the original are eliminated, while at least two new ones are added, and multiple panels are both re-scripted and at least partly redrawn to change their meaning. The panel that in the original portrays Cody nearly being bucked off Panther has him saying, "I-I can't hang on much longer!" The same picture in the revision is now supposedly showing Bart and Black Fury riding off as a team: "It's hard to believe! Black Fury wants to help me--or he would throw me sky high!"

Other changes are clearly made to mollify the censors, since they are unnecessary to adapt the plot to different characters. For example, at the bottom of page five, Cody says, "But how would you know that, Ace, unless you were the hombre that set those killers on me?" to which Ace replies, "Cody! Get him men! Shut his mouth with lead!" In the tamer world of the Comics Code this interchange becomes: "But how would you know that, Ace, unless you were the hombre that set those men on me?" with the response, "Wade! Get him men! Shut his mouth!" Similar patches of narration and dialogue are watered down throughout the rest of the story, along with visual changes to eliminate sound effects and tone down violence and gunplay.

Unknown pencils and inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Campbell.
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Apache Frontier

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Stampede At Horseshoe Canyon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Little Cow Gal
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Is this a reprinted story?

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