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Issue: Four Color #438
Publication Date: December 1952
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Issues: #438 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Annie Oakley
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "ANNIE OAKLEY, No. 438". Code number is A.O.O.S. #438-5212.
Copyright 1952 by Annie Oakley Enterprises, Inc.
First of three Annie Oakley Four Colors.
This is not based on the "Annie Oakley" TV series, which didn't air until 1954, but it is from Annie Oakley Enterprises (who eventually made the TV series) and features the first appearance of Tagg Oakley, Annie's fictional little brother who was a fixture on the TV show.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Annie Oakley; Tagg Oakley
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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The Western campfire

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Inker(s): August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Synopsis: Different ways to build campfires for cooking.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover, black and white. Illustrations with typeset text.
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Annie Oakley and the Death Brand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Annie Oakley; Tagg
Synopsis: Annie and Tagg find a steer with a message branded on it with a running iron saying "Dying - BB shot LS". Annie's neighbor is Luke Simmons and when they go to check they find that Bat Braddock is in charge of the Simmons ranch and Simmons is missing. Annie goes to town to get advice from Colonel Dyke, not knowing that Dyke is a partner with Braddock in the scheme.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Annie and Tagg's ranch is the "Lazy Z". Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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Gunsight Gal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Annie Oakley (intro); Tagg (intro)
Synopsis: Annie is working as a sharpshooter in her uncle's traveling carnival, when she receives a telegram that she has inherited a ranch from a distant relative. It is located near Gunsight, "the toughest town west of the Pecos". She and her brother Tagg leave to settle on the ranch, not knowing that gold has been discovered there. Eli Bolton sends a thug to find out some information on Annie, but he is fooled by a gag photo for a store contest. When the stage to Gunsight is attacked by Indians, Annie drives them off, then takes over for an injured Pony Express rider. After arriving with the mail at Gunsight, she later surprises Bolton's gang, who expect her to be in the stagecoach when it arrives.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Though it is the second story in the comic, it is the introduction of the characters. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

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