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Issue: Four Color #1164
Publication Date: March 1961
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Issues: #1164 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Western AdventureView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/15/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1164." Code number is WANTED DEAD O.A.O.S. #1164-615. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. There is an exclamation point on the title logo everywhere except in the indicia.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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Wanted: Dead or Alive!

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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Trail of the Bear / The Carved Bullet

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 stories in the issue.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories.
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The Carved Bullet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Josh Randall
Synopsis: Randall finds a man in an abandoned shack, delirious from blood poisoning after shooting himself in the foot. During the man's raving, Randall learns of a meeting of the gang of "Doc Cole, the most wanted man in California." Randall decides to go to the meeting and capture Cole.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 199, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.
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The Trail of the Bear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Josh Randall; Jase Nichols
Synopsis: Randall and his friend Jase track Bear-Tracks Borrman through Apache territory. Borrman captures them and takes them to a cavern full of gold nuggets.
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Miscellaneous
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.
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Famous Wanted Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Feature(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Character(s): Joaquin Murieta; Tiburcio Vasquez; Bill Miner; Sam Bass; John Wesley Hardin; William P. Longley
Synopsis: Brief biographies of six famous criminals of the old West.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 199, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott, which states: "Famous Wanted Men. Cover #3 for Wanted, Dead or Alive, February issue. Sent August 20, 1960." Cover #3.

Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo in on the sequence, but no characters appear.
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This is a Beaverbear

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kraft Caramels
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Part of series of "hybrid animals" ads for Kraft Caramels candy.

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