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Issue: Four Color #449

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Publication Date: February 1953

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Issues: #449 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)

Title: Zane Grey's Tappan's Burro

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Dell

Brand: Dell Comic

Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/16/1952

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Indicia title is "Zane Grey's TAPPAN'S BURRO, No. 449." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #449-532. Copyright 1952 by Zane Grey, Inc. "Published by arrangement with the Hawley Publications, Inc." On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Pamphlets, page 217.
"Picturized edition adapted from the novel "Tappan's Burro" by Zane Grey, copyright 1923, by Zane Grey; copyright renewed 1951 by Lina Elise Grey."

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Format

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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Content Items (3 total)

Zane Grey's Tappan's Burro

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Pencils/inks/colors:
The burro is similar to one he painted on the cover of Lone Ranger #20 note the placement of the ears. Gollub's reference material for the burro drawings came from a year he spent in South Dakota studying the animals in Custer State Park. The wild burros have been there for a very long time and are fondly referred to as "begging burros" today, because they eagerly approach vehicles in the park looking for handouts. Gollub did a year in the park making wild animal drawings for the St Louis Natural History Museum in 1935.

The Wagon Train

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Synopsis: A traditional cowboy song about Sioux Indians attacking a wagon train.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration with typeset text. Stanzas two through seven of the nine stanza song printed under the title "Sioux Indians" in the 1918 book "Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads" by John Avery Lomax.

Zane Grey's Tappan's Burro

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Synopsis: The adventures of the prospector Tappan and his faithful burro Jenet as they battle desert heat, rustlers, and mountain snowstorms over the years.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 34

Notes: Adapts Zane Grey's 1923 novel "Tappan's Burro."

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 181, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script written as "Through Fire and Snow."

Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color.

Oddity: Man depicted as Tappan in the cover painting has dark hair and a beard. In the interior story, Tappan has light brown hair and is clean-shaven.