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Issue: Four Color #177
Publication Date: December 1947
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Issues: #177 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Roy Rogers Comics
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell Magazine [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/28/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS COMICS, No. 177." No code number. Copyright 1947 by Roy Rogers. Most information for this index from Robert Phillips.

• On sale date (date published) per Robert W. Phillips' "Roy Rogers" (Jefferson, NC: MacFarland, 1995, 446 pages). Copyright expired October 1, 1975 (ibid.).
• The entry of this work on page 523 of Catalog of Copyright Entries 1947 Pamphlets contains no publication date. It reads:
"ROY ROGERS COMICS. Dell magazine no. 177. New York, Dell Pub. Co., inc. Pamphlet, col., illus. © Roy Rogers, Van Nuys, Calif.; AA69967."
• Phillips lists the Copyright Entries code as AA 69967, with a space.
• October 28, 1947 is also the publication date of the two prior issues of Dell Four Color, #176 and #175.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Roy Rogers
Character(s): Roy Rogers (photo); original Trigger (horse, photo)
Synopsis: Posed-for-comics photo, has Roy astride original Trigger.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Roy and Owl

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Roy Rogers
Character(s): Roy Rogers (photo)
Synopsis: Candid-like photo, taken on filming location ("On the Old Spanish Trail", identified in caption), has Roy with owl.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white.
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Roy Rogers and the Wolves of the Little Moab

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): Harry Parkhurst [as Harry Parks] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Parkhurst [as Harry Parks] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Roy Rogers
Character(s): Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse)
Synopsis: Roy helps Sheriff Bill Prime, an old friend, solve a murder and cattle-rustling committed by the "Wolves of the Little Moab" gang (so-called because they wear wolf's head masks.)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Original copyright October 28, 1947, in name of Roy Rogers: AA 69967, now expired.

Story submitted October 28, 1946.

Story opens with Roy Rogers singing a song, one of the few such instances in comic books. Roy's likeness undergoes drastic change with this artist.

Art is signed in last panel.
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Roy Cleaning Rifle

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Roy Rogers
Character(s): Roy Rogers (photo)
Synopsis: Captioned, candid-like photo has Roy on movie location, cleaning rifle.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.
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Roy and Trigger

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); original Trigger (horse, photo)
Synopsis: Horizontal publicity photo shows Roy astride what appears to be original Trigger, but touched up by photographers.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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