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Issue Details

Issue #1013
Published August-October 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BAT MASTERSON, No. 1013". Code number is B.M.O.S. #1013-598. Copyright 1959 by Ziv Television Programs, Inc. First and only Bat Masterson Four Color. Becomes Bat Masterson (Dell 1960 series) with #2 (February-April 1960). Based on the "Bat Masterson" TV series.

Cover Details - "Bat Masterson"

Characters Gene Barry (as Bat Masterson, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "BAT MASTERSON, No. 1013". Code number is B.M.O.S. #1013-598. Copyright 1959 by Ziv Television Programs, Inc. First and only Bat Masterson Four Color. Becomes Bat Masterson (Dell 1960 series) with #2 (February-April 1960). Based on the "Bat Masterson" TV series.

1 page [Bat Masterson] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters Gene Barry (as Bat Masterson, photo)
Synopsis Preview of first story, "The Tough Crew".
Genre western
Pencils Jerry Robinson; ? (photo)
Inks Jerry Robinson; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five panels with text underneath plus photo of Gene Barry as Bat Masterson. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page Bat Masterson story "The Tough Crew"

Characters Bat Masterson; Terence O'Rourke;
Synopsis Bat stops a gang of bullies from harrasing an orphan boy. Later the boy tells Bat that the gang is the same one that robbed a railroad payroll and killed his father. Bat leaves town and has the boy keep a lookout on the bank. That night the boy spots the gang breaking into the bank and at the same time Bat comes back into town to disrupt the operation.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script submitted on February 5, 1959. 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).

16 page Bat Masterson story "The Treasure Hole"

Characters Bat Masterson; June Borden; Shifty Means (villain)
Synopsis June Borden comes west only to find her father murdered in a tussle over a gold nugget. Bat has been entrusted with a map to the gold that the prospector drew while dying. She and Bat go to the prospector's camp, but are followed by a pair of claim jumpers. Bat overcomes them and after they leave, he and the girl find a large bag of gold that was stored at the bottom of a seep-spring.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on February 7, 1959. 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 Landmarks of the Old West filler "Apache Pass"

Synopsis Events at Apache Pass.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Script submitted March 2, 1959. 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).

1 page Roaring Towns of the Old West filler "Tombstone"

Characters Wyatt Earp (cameo); Doc Holiday (cameo); John Slaughter (cameo)
Synopsis Some of the more famous events that happened in Tombstone, Arizona.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Notes Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Script submitted March 2, 1959. 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).