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Issue Details

Issue #357
Published [November 1951]
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Subtitled "Picturized edition of The Shepherd of Guadaloupe." Indicia reads "Zane Grey's Comeback (The Shepherd of Guadaloupe), No. 357" Code number is Z.G.O.S.#357-5111. Cover title has exclamation point. Copyright 1951 by Zane Grey, Inc. Original story is from 1928. "Published by arrangement with The Hawley Publications, Inc."

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's Comeback!"

Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Subtitled "Picturized edition of The Shepherd of Guadaloupe." Indicia reads "Zane Grey's Comeback (The Shepherd of Guadaloupe), No. 357" Code number is Z.G.O.S.#357-5111. Cover title has exclamation point. Copyright 1951 by Zane Grey, Inc. Original story is from 1928. "Published by arrangement with The Hawley Publications, Inc."

1 page filler "Handling Ranch Stock"

Genre western; fact
Notes Inside cover; black and white. Illustrated article on chutes and corrals used to handle cattle in the old west.

32 page story "Comeback"

Synopsis Cliff Forrest, a disabled war veteran who has been told he only has six months to live, returns to his home town in the southwest; only to find that his parents have lost their ranch.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Notes Adaptation of "The Shepherd of the Guadaloupe" by Zane Grey (1928). Script submitted under that title on April 6, 1951. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

2 page filler "Sam Bass"

Characters Sam Bass
Synopsis Lyrics to a traditional cowboy song about 1870s Texas outlaw Sam Bass. Ten stanzas with one black and white illustration on the inside cover. One large color illustration on the back cover with a repeat of the third stanza.
Genre western
Script ? (song lyrics)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; back cover; color. Some versions of the song have an additional stanza, likely omitted here because of a reference to whiskey.