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Issue Details

Issue #265
Published February 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Notes Indicia title is "KING of the ROYAL MOUNTED, No. 265." Code number is KING O.S. #265-502. Copyright 1944, 1945 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Cover Details - "Plot to Kill Prudence Plenty"

Characters Sergeant King; Prudence Plenty
Genre detective
Pencils Jim Gary (signed)
Inks Jim Gary (signed)
Notes Cover has the "This is a King Feature" bullet on it.

1 page filler "Royal Canadian Mounted Police"

Characters Sergeant King
Synopsis Facts about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Genre fact
Script Jim Gary ?
Pencils Jim Gary (signed)
Inks Jim Gary (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

50 page King of the Royal Mounted story "Beard, the Blind Beggar / Plot to Kill Prudence Plenty"

Characters Sergeant King; Ivy; Beard, the Blind Beggar; Prudence Plenty; Desire; Pinky Dill
Synopsis A man posing as a blind beggar robs and kills a messenger. He sets the city morgue on fire to cover his getaway. Beard leads King on a chase into the mountains. Beard is killed in a fire and King meets a girl who tells him Prudence Plenty is targeted for murder. King goes to see Miss Plenty and gets caught up in a plot to murder Miss Plenty.
Genre detective
Script Jim Gary
Pencils Jim Gary
Inks Jim Gary
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in full color. Two plots that segue from one to the other. Says "by Zane Grey" in the logo box, but that is the same as "by Walt Disney." Also in logo box is "Produced by Stephen Slesinger, Inc."
Reprinted from King of the Royal Mounted (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944 and 1945