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Issue Details

Issue #460
Published April 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BUCK JONES, No. 460". (Large blank space in indicia after "460" seems to indicate title was changed at last minute.) Code number is B.J.O.S. #460-534. Copyright 1953 by Mrs. Odille D. Jones. Series continues from Buck Jones (Dell, 1949 series) #8 (October-December 1952).

Cover Details

Characters Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
Genre western
Pencils Morris Gollub (painting)
Inks Morris Gollub (painting)
Colors Morris Gollub (painting)
Notes Art credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

24 page Buck Jones story "Buck Jones and the Headless Horseman"

Characters Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
Synopsis A headless horseman is terrorizing an old prospector who has retired to a small ranch. Buck goes to visit and ends up at the home of Karl Mueller, who tells him the story of Don Miguel, an old Spanish soldier who built the hacienda Mueller lives in, and who was later beheaded by bandits. The legend is that the headless horseman is Don Miguel's ghost.
Genre western
Pencils Sparky Moore
Inks Sparky Moore
Notes Story begins on inside front cover in black and white. Karl Mueller is a stereotypical German, complete with monocle and dueling scar.

11 page Buck Jones story "The Books of Death"

Characters Buck Jones; Silver-B (horse)
Synopsis After finding an empty stage with no passengers or baggage and the driver dead nearby, Buck goes to the Gopher City sheriff. There he finds that the bank's $20,000 in reserve cash has been substituted with counterfeit money.
Genre western
Pencils Sparky Moore
Inks Sparky Moore
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)