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Issue Details

Issue #1018
Published June 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "RIO BRAVO, No. 1018". Code number is RIO BRAVO O.S. #1018-596. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo". Cover photo has the background cropped out.

Cover Details - "Rio Bravo"

Characters John Wayne [as Sheriff John Chance] (photo); Dean Martin [as Dude (Borachón)] (photo); Ricky Nelson [as Colorado Ryan] (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "RIO BRAVO, No. 1018". Code number is RIO BRAVO O.S. #1018-596. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo". Cover photo has the background cropped out.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters John Wayne [as Sheriff John Chance] (photo); Dean Martin [as Dude (Borachón)] (photo); Ricky Nelson [as Colorado Ryan] (photo); Walter Brennan [as Stumpy] (photo)
Synopsis Preview of story.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and partial cast and credits from the movie.

32 page story "Rio Bravo"

Characters Sheriff John Chance; Dude (Borachón); Colorado Ryan; Feathers; Stumpy; Pat Wheeler; Nathan Burdette; Joe Burdette
Synopsis When Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for murder, the Burdette gang bottles up the town of Rio Bravo and refuses to let anyone in who will help the Sheriff. Chance has to depend on a crippled deputy and a disgraced drunk to hold out and keep Joe Burdette in jail until the Marshal arrives. Matters are complicated by the arrival of a young gunslinger and a mysterious woman on the last stagecoach.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo".

1 page filler "Wanted! Wanted!"

Synopsis Facts about the use of "Wanted" posters in the old West.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath.

1 page filler "General Bulletin Tree"

Synopsis Facts about the posting of notices on trees in old West towns with no newspapers.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath.