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Issue: Four Color #86

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Publication Date: October 1945

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Detail

Issues: #86 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)

Title: Roy Rogers Comics

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Dell

Brand: A Dell Magazine

Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/14/1945

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: •Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS COMICS, No. 86." Code number is ROY R. 86-4510. Copyright 1945 by Roy Rogers.
•The on-sale date is the date of publication as per the 1945 Copyright Entries.
•There is no cover-date. A cover-date (month) was a periodical's pull-date alerting retailers when to remove that issue of the periodical from the stands in order to make room for the next issue which would have already shipped. In this case, the next Roy Rogers Four Color did not ship until three and a half months, December 28, 1945; so, this issue's cover-date/pull-date (had it had one) would have been January (1946). In the past, before Copyright Entries data were readily available, and cover-dates were misunderstood to be month-of-sale dates, archivists of Dell Comics, when confounded by the absence of a cover-date, hacked Western Printing's issue-code and substituted its coded-date for the absent cover-date/pull-date. But that issue-code generally revealed only the first full month the issue was intended to be on-sale. For example, a quarterly that hit the stands (let's say) mid-December and whose next issue wouldn't come out til the Ides of March might have had a cover-date/pull-date of April but its issue-code would have been January --- a three-months' discrepancy. That flawed practice, having assumed the status of venerable tradition, persists today, 2018 September.

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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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- Roy and Trigger [Illustration on Cover, Front]0
- Deadly Treasure [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.

Reprinted From0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (5 total)

Roy and Trigger

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photograph)

Inker(s): ? (photograph)

Colorist(s): ? (photograph)

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Roy Rogers

Character(s): Roy Rogers (photograph); Trigger (horse) (photograph)

Reprinting

In Issue:

Roy Rogers #1 published October 2008

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Portrait of Roy

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Colorist(s): ? (photo)

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Roy Rogers

Character(s): Roy Rogers (photo)

Synopsis: Roy in a publicity-shot close-up.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; black, tan, and white.

Deadly Treasure

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): Albert Micale

Inker(s): Albert Micale

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Roy Rogers

Character(s): Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Judge Conroy; Dennis Conroy; Lorna Mattison

Synopsis: A hooded gang has kidnapped five people and murdered others and nobody knows why. When Lorna Mattison is kidnapped, Judge Conroy's son goes after the gang. Roy has to find Lorna and keep Conroy's son from getting killed.

Reprinting

In Issue:

Roy Rogers #1 published October 2008

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 32

Notes: This story and art work was also published separately in a different format--Whitman Better Little Book, no. 1437.

Gaylord Du Bois submitted this extra-long story 25 pages at a time. (script pages?)

Roy and Horse

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Colorist(s): ? (photo)

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Roy Rogers

Character(s): Roy Rogers (photo); Trigger, Jr. ? (horse) (photo)

Synopsis: Roy and horse, (Trigger, Jr.?), in rearing pose.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover; black, tan, and white.

Roy and Daughter Cheryl

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Colorist(s): ? (photo)

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Roy Rogers

Character(s): Roy Rogers (photo); Cheryl Rogers (photo)

Synopsis: Roy, with guitar, sings to daughter Cheryl.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.