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Issue Details

Issue #709
Published June 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE SEARCHERS, No. 709." Code number is T.S.O.S. #709-566. Copyright 1956 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. Adapted from the 1956 Warner Bros. movie "The Searchers."

Cover Details - "The Searchers"

Characters Ethan Edwards (as played by John Wayne, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
Letters typeset

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Searchers"

Characters Ethan Edwards (as played by John Wayne, photo); Martin Pawley (as played by Jeffrey Hunter, photo); Brad Jorgensen (as played by Harey Carey Jr., photo); Debbie Edwards (as played by Natalie Wood, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photographs)
Inks ? (photographs)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Seven photos from the movie plus a partial cast list.

34 page story "The Searchers"

Characters Ethan Edwards
Synopsis Three years after the Civil War, Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards' homecoming at his brother's Texas ranch is ruined by a Comanche raid. His brother and his wife and son are killed and his young nieces are kidnapped by the Comanches. Edwards and Marty, a young man his brother raised, go on a multi-year search to find them.
Genre western
Pencils Mike Roy
Inks Mike Peppe
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." This adaptation of the 1956 movie "The Searchers" is fairly faithful to the movie, though an early movie reference to Edwards possessing money from a railway robbery is omitted, as is the classic closing scene. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).