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Issue Details

Issue #301
Published November 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER, No. 301." (note that it is "Zane Grey," not "Zane Grey's.") Code number is Z.G.O.S. #301-5011. Copyright 1950 by Zane Grey, Inc. Eighth of 26 Zane Grey Four Colors.

Cover Details - "The Mysterious Rider"

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

2 page filler "The Cowboy's Life"

Genre western
Script [traditional song]
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover and inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and lyrics to the western song "The Cowboy's Life" in large type. Lyrics are from "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" collected by John A. Lomax, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929.

48 page story "The Mysterious Rider"

Characters Bent Wade; Bill Bellhounds; Jack Bellhounds; Columbine Bellhounds; Wilson Moore
Synopsis Bent Wade mistakenly kills an innocent man who was accompanying his wife and newborn daughter. His wife takes their daughter back east, but the wagon train they are traveling with is massacred by Indians. Bent Wade spends the next 20 years searching for his daughter, whose body was missing from the remains of the wagon train. He is seemingly cursed, as innocent men die by various means whenever he is around. His travels take him to Bill Bellhound's Whiteslides Ranch, where unknown to him, his daughter was taken 20 years ago when she was found in a grove of Columbine trees. Columbine is pledged to marry the cruel Jack Bellhounds, but loves ranch hand Wilson Moore. Jack frames Moore for a robbery and Wade must find a way to clear him.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); ? (adaptation)
Pencils Bob Jenney
Inks Bob Jenney
Letters typeset
Notes Adapted from "The Mysterious Rider" by Zane Grey, originally published in 1921.

1 page filler "The Pecos Queen"

Characters Patty Morehead
Genre western
Script [traditional song]
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Painting with block of typeset lyrics to the western song "The Pecos Queen." Lyrics are from "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" collected by John A. Lomax, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929.