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Issue: Four Color #916
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Title: Red Ryder Ranch Comics
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1958
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "RED RYDER RANCH COMICS, No. 916." Code number is R.RYDER.R.O.S. #916-587. Copyright 1958 by Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc. This issue continues from "Red Ryder Ranch Comics" (Dell, 1956 series) #151 (April-June 1957). Last issue of the Red Ryder series.
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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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The Empty Fort

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
western
Red Ryder
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The Red Ryder Ranch...

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Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction
Fred Harman (photo); Little Beaver (photo); Angelo Viana (photo); Richard Valzonis (photo)
Three photos taken at Fred Harman's Red Ryder Ranch in Colorado, with commentary by Fred Harman.
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Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos and typeset text.
The Empty Fort

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
western
Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Duchess; Sheriff Newt; Thunder (horse); Papoose (horse)
Red Ryder and Little Beaver find an old prospector delirious with the heat. When they take the prospector to their home, two gunmen arrive and the prospector disappears, along with Little Beaver. Red Ryder goes to Rimrock and the whole town goes out searching for the pair. While they're gone a gang of bandits plunder the empty town.
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Originally credited to Fred Harman as it is signed, but he used ghost artists on the comic books. The ghost here is Tony Sgroi. The way Red turns his head in panel three on page two is good enough clue to Sgroi, but there is much more. The elegant horses on page three are Sgroi too, even if he is trying to make them look like Harman-horses. On page six the face of one of the bad guys is another clue, and on page 8 we have the face of Judd Beldon. The closed eyes and high cheekbones are only Sgroi. Page nine has some more Sgroi faces with lines for eyes and a frowning mouth. On page fifteen are some more faces with high cheekbones. Here we also have something he uses very often, the emotion lines round the head. This detail in ink make me think he also did the inking, although with very much blacks to simulate Harman.
Where There's Smoke

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
western
Little Beaver
Little Beaver; Papoose (horse); Grandma Snapturtle; Chief; Sheriff Newt
Little Beaver finds an injured man in the woods and takes him to the man's cabin. There he finds the man was shot in a robbery and his accomplices keep Little Beaver prisoner in the cabin. Little Beaver is able to send smoke signals by way of the cabin chimney to alert searchers of his plight.
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A Hatful of Tricks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
western
Little Beaver
Little Beaver; Red Fox
Peddlers offer the Navaho "white man's hats" in exchange for food and water. The peddlers' ultimate goal is to distract the tribe so they can steal their supply of turquoise.
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The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Sparky Moore is credited to Little Beaver in Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this is one of his stories. The jagged inking may be his imitation of Harman. The faces in the three first panels on page two points to Sparky, as the close up faces on page four to six.
The Walk of the Burros

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction, western
Big Jim Butler
How Big Jim Butler found gold while chasing his burros near Tonopah, Nevada, in 1900.
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Inside back cover; black and white. Text with 1/3 page illustration.
Have Fun Safely

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum
Summer safety tips for pedestrians.
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Back cover. Ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum. Part of a "Summer Safety" series. Alternate back cover is "Counterattack" (see sequence 7).
Counterattack

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Subject Matter
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Back cover. Alternate back cover is Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum advertisement (see sequence 6).

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