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Issue: Four Color #1284
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #1284 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Laramie
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/30/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "LARAMIE, No. 1284." Code number is LARAMIE O.S. #1284-621. Copyright 1961 by Revue Studios. Based on the "Laramie" TV series. 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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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
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The Doomed Captive

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Laramie
Character(s): Slim Sherman (photo of John Smith); Jess Harper (photo of Robert Fuller)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Snowbound / The Doomed Captive

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Russ Heath; ? (photo)
Inker(s): Russ Heath: ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Laramie
Character(s): Slim Sherman (photo of John Smith); Jess Harper (photo of Robert Fuller)
Synopsis: Preview of two stories in the issue.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Photo from TV series plus two panel preview for each main story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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The Doomed Captive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Russ Heath [as RH] (signed, see notes)
Inker(s): Russ Heath [as RH] (signed, see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Laramie
Character(s): Slim Sherman; Jess Harper; Johnny Feather
Synopsis: Stage driver Johnny Feather, an Indian, is captured by renegade Indians who plan to take him back to Indian territory to kill him for working for the white man. Slim and Jess rescue him from an underground cavern.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

On page 4, in the first story, the large bottom panel shows Slim's horse has an "RH" brand on his flank. Dell didn't like the artists signing their work, so this was Russ Heath's way around it.
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A Lame Excuse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Gil Kane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Laramie
Character(s): Slim Sherman; Jess Harper
Synopsis: Jess opts out of helping unload a stage due to sprained wrists; but they don't hurt enough to keep him from helping a pretty young lady down from the stage.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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Snowbound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Russ Heath
Inker(s): Russ Heath
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Laramie
Character(s): Slim Sherman; Jess Harper
Synopsis: In the midst of a severe winter snowstorm, outlaws take over the stage stop.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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Western Winters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Gil Kane
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Synopsis: Anecdotes about harsh winters in the Old West.
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In Content Item: FlagColt Western #10-63 published March 1970
as Western Winters [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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The White Man's Road

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Gil Kane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Character(s): Geronimo (cameo)
Synopsis: Indians' attempts to adapt to the white man's ways.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.

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