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Issue Details

Issue #1138
Published October-December 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Cover subtitle is "Johnny Yuma's Journal." Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1138." Code number is THE REBEL O.S. #1138-6010. Copyright 1960 by The Rebel Company. Second of four "The Rebel" Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Johnny Yuma (as played by Nick Adams, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Cover subtitle is "Johnny Yuma's Journal." Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1138." Code number is THE REBEL O.S. #1138-6010. Copyright 1960 by The Rebel Company. Second of four "The Rebel" Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series.

1 page The Rebel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Black Eagle / Johnny Yuma's Orphan"

Characters Johnny Yuma (as played by Nick Adams, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the stories in the issue.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky; ? (photo)
Inks Mike Peppe; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page The Rebel story "Black Eagle"

Characters Johnny Yuma
Synopsis Three outlaws try to get Johnny Yuma to join them. When he refuses, they become bitter enemies. Yuma goes to a ranch where he finds a teen girl who is badly treated by her uncle and aunt. The outlaws happen upon the ranch and set the rest of the story in motion.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Script submitted on March 16, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page The Rebel story "Johnny Yuma's Orphan"

Characters Johnny Yuma
Synopsis Johnny rescues an Apache boy from bullying cowboys, but doesn't know what to do with the boy.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script submitted on February 16, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page The Rebel filler "Quantrill's Raiders"

Characters Jesse James; William Clarke Quantrill
Synopsis Overview of Quantrill's Raiders, a band of Confederate guerrillas, some of whom later became an outlaw gang.
Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. "The Rebel" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script submitted on April 11, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page The Rebel filler "Meat Hunters"

Synopsis How the railroads provided meat to their track-laying crews in the Old West.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Back cover. "The Rebel" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. Script submitted on April 11, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).