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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published January-March 1961
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Notes Issue updated with data from Alberto Becattini (April 2008). This comic title represents some of Dell's finest television series-based comics. Spiegle's work here is in top form here, and the stories are especially well-written. There's action mixed with cowboy sleuthing as found in television Westerns.

Cover Details

Characters James Garner; Jack Kelly
Synopsis Color photo of actors James Garner (Bret Maverick) and Jack Kelly (Bart Maverick) from TV series.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page Maverick foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Dan Spiegle"

Pencils Dan Spiegle; ? (photo)
Inks Dan Spiegle; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover: introductions to the two stories that make up this issue--comic panel art, panels similar to but not identical to those in the stories they introduce; also two small b&w bust photos of Garner and Kelly in their roles.

13 page Maverick story "A Banner Day"

Synopsis The Maverick brothers arrive in Redville and support a citizen attempting to protect townsfolk from con-man, but soon learn they've made a mistake.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald or Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle

1 page text article "Dangerous Feat"

Genre western
Pencils Sparky Moore
Inks Sparky Moore
Letters typeset
Notes One page/one illustration "fact filler" with eleven paragraphs of text devoted to how Westerners contended with snow.

4 page story "Law of the Prairie"

Synopsis King Slater tries to use his power to intimidate the law and other smaller outfits, as he attempts to get his prime herd of beef loaded on the trains and to market first.
Genre western
Pencils Mel Keefer
Inks Mel Keefer

13 page Maverick story "Trouble in Tucson"

Synopsis The brothers are waylayed on the stage to Tucson, then their arrival in town brings about new threats to their living.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle

Half page Maverick story "Thank Ye Ma'am"

Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes One page panel-illustrated "fact filler" focused on Old West courtship custom.

1 page Maverick story "The Ill-fated Two Dollar Bill"

Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes One page panel-illustrated "fact filler" presents a little history of the two dollar bill and some of the superstitions surrounding it.