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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published July-September 1962
Cover Price $0.12
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes First issue is Dell Four Color #1303 (1961). Cover code is 12-414-209. Although the Overstreet Price Guide has a colon between "Lad" and "A Dog" in the title, there is none listed in the actual comic.

Cover Details

Characters Lad
Genre animal
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes First issue is Dell Four Color #1303 (1961). Cover code is 12-414-209. Although the Overstreet Price Guide has a colon between "Lad" and "A Dog" in the title, there is none listed in the actual comic.

1 page filler "Training Tips"

Synopsis Facts about training dogs.
Genre animal; fact
Pencils Sam Glanzman
Inks Sam Glanzman
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

27 page Lad A Dog story "Killer!"

Characters Lad (a dog); Stephen Tremayne; Elizabeth Tremayne; (his owners)
Synopsis Lad is accused of killing a neighbor's colts. He is taken to New York City, where he becomes separated from his owners. After a series of adventures he returns to his owners.
Genre animal; period
Pencils Sam Glanzman [as SJG] (signed)
Inks Sam Glanzman [as SJG] (signed)
Notes Not specified, but by depiction of cars and clothing, the story appears to take place in the 1930s.

1 page text story "A Real Bird Dog"

Synopsis A tall-tale about a dog who chirps like a bird.
Genre animal; fantasy
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with no illustration.

4 page story "Canine Cowpoke"

Synopsis Mongrel dog Rex rescues his master from being attacked by a bull.
Genre animal; western
Pencils Sam Glanzman
Inks Sam Glanzman

1 page filler "Ancient Beliefs About Dogs"

Characters Hercules (cameo)
Synopsis Facts about dogs in ancient cultures.
Genre animal; fact
Pencils Sam Glanzman [as S.J.G.] (signed)
Inks Sam Glanzman [as S.J.G.] (signed)
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page filler "Dogs At War"

Synopsis Facts about the use of dogs in war.
Genre animal; fact
Pencils Sam Glanzman
Inks Sam Glanzman
Notes Back cover; color.