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Issue Details

Issue #314
Published February 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's AMBUSH (WESTERN UNION), No. 314." Code number is Z.G. #1-512. (Note that code number does note include Four Color number.) Copyright 1950 by Zane Grey, Inc. Numbered "Z.G. #1" on cover only.

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's Ambush"

Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "Famous Guns of the Old West"

Synopsis Descriptions of Colt .44, Derringer pistol, and Winchester lever action rifle.
Genre fact; western
Notes Inside front cover. Three illustrations and text.

48 page story "Zane Grey's Ambush"

Characters Cameron Boston; Vance Shaw; Jack Lowden; Tom Darnell
Synopsis Three cowboys and a tenderfoot become a team working with the crews of Western Union that are stringing the first transcontinental telegraph line.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
Notes Adapted from the 1939 novel "Western Union" by Zane Grey.

1 page filler "The Buffalo Skinners"

Synopsis Lyrics to the western song "The Buffalo Skinners."
Genre western
Script [traditional song]
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Text with illustrations. Back cover illustrates a line in the song.

1 page filler "We left old Crego's bones to bleach on the range of the buffalo."

Synopsis Painting illustrating the title scene, which is a line from the western song "The Buffalo Skinners."
Genre western
Script [traditional song]
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Full lyrics of the song are on the inside back cover.