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Issue Details

Issue #757
Published March 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES, No. 757. Code number is J.JAMES O.S. #757-573. Copyright 1957 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Adapted from the 1957 movie "The True Story of Jesse James." 10¢ and 15¢ versions exist.

Cover Details - "The True Story Of Jesse James"

Characters Robert Wagner [as Jesse James] (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES, No. 757. Code number is J.JAMES O.S. #757-573. Copyright 1957 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Adapted from the 1957 movie "The True Story of Jesse James." 10¢ and 15¢ versions exist.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The True Story of Jesse James"

Characters Robert Wagner [as Jesse James] (photo); Jeffrey Hunter [as Frank James] (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie and a partial cast list.

34 page story "The True Story of Jesse James"

Characters Jesse James; Frank James; Cole Younger; Bob Ford; William Quantrill
Synopsis The last 18 years of Jesse James' life, mostly told in flashbacks. Covers his years with Quantrill's Raiders, his life of crime, the Northfield, Minn., bank robbery that proved the gang's undoing, and finally his death from being shot in the back by Bob Ford.
Genre western
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Letters Jesse Marsh
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1957 Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The True Story of Jesse James." Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)