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Issue Details

Issue #1029
Published September-November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BOOTS AND SADDLES, No. 1029". Code number is BOOTS+SADDLES O.S. #1029-599. Copyright 1959 by California National Productions, Inc. Second of three Boots and Saddles Four Colors. Based on the 1959 syndicated TV series "Boots and Saddles".

Cover Details

Characters John Pickard (as Capt. Shank Adams, photo); Michael Hinn (as Luke Cummings, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "BOOTS AND SADDLES, No. 1029". Code number is BOOTS+SADDLES O.S. #1029-599. Copyright 1959 by California National Productions, Inc. Second of three Boots and Saddles Four Colors. Based on the 1959 syndicated TV series "Boots and Saddles".

1 page [Boots and Saddles] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters John Pickard (as Capt. Shank Adams, photo); Michael Hinn (as Luke Cummings, photo)
Synopsis Preview of first story.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos and brief typeset text.

10 page Boots and Saddles story "Bad Medicine"

Characters Capt. Shank Adams; Corp. Davis
Synopsis When Chief Otter Claw's son develops smallpox, his medicine man says it is the white man's fault and wants to wage war. Capt. Adams brings the fort doctor to apply a vaccination to the boy and his recovery is the key to war or peace.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Ray Bailey
Inks Ray Bailey
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records. (August 4, 2007)

12 page Boots and Saddles story "The Gun Smugglers"

Characters Capt. Shank Adams; Luke Cummings; Sgt. Bullock
Synopsis The Cavalry is frustrated when gun smugglers escape across the Rio Grande River, which they have orders not to cross. They trick the smugglers into stealing defective rifles and when the Mexicans chase them back across the border for selling them bad goods, the smugglers are caught in a crossfire from both the Mexicans and the Calvary.
Genre western
Pencils Ray Bailey
Inks Ray Bailey
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

10 page Boots and Saddles story "The Book Soldier"

Characters Capt. Shank Adams; Sgt. Bullock
Synopsis A new Sergeant at the fort does everything "by the book" of Army Regulations. His rigid adherence to the regulations causes friction in the fort and when he goes out on patrol, their horses are stolen by Apaches and he and his men have to walk.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Ray Bailey
Inks Ray Bailey
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records. (August 4, 2007)

1 page filler "Western Forts"

Synopsis Facts about life inside a western Army fort.
Genre fact; western
Script Paul S. Newman ?
Pencils Frank Giacioa
Inks Frank Giacioa
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Army Men"

Synopsis Facts about the types of men who joined the Army after the Civil War.
Genre fact; western
Script Paul S. Newman ?
Pencils Frank Giacoia
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).