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Issue Details

Issue #1027
Published September-November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE TEXAN, No. 1027." Code number is TEXAN O.S. #1027-599. Copyright 1959 by Rorvic Productions, Inc., and Desilu Productions, Inc. Based on the 1958-60 CBS TV series "The Texan."

Cover Details - "The Texan"

Characters Bill Longley (as played by Rory Calhoun, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

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

Characters Bill Longley (as played by Rory Calhoun, photo)
Synopsis Preview of first story.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Two photos with typeset text.

19 page The Texan story "Revenge In Rock River"

Characters Bill Longley
Synopsis Bill Longley comes to the tent town of Rock River, New Mexico, where he meets old friends from the war. They are prospectors and tell him that the town is under the thumb of John Flood, who charges the miners for protection from his hired guns.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Mel Keefer
Inks Mel Keefer
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

13 page The Texan story "Stage to Paradise"

Characters Bill Longley
Synopsis After capturing outlaw Clint Dirkson, Bill Longley takes him to the nearby town of Fenton, Oklahoma. There he finds the sheriff is dead and the townspeople don't want to deal with Dirkson's gang, which is following him. Longley and two volunteers take Dirkson on a stage to the nearest marshal, in Paradise 80 miles away.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Mel Keefer
Inks Mel Keefer
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Towns with Many Faces"

Characters Bill Longley (cameo)
Synopsis Facts about the development of towns in the old West, "narrated" by Bill Longley.
Genre fact
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Mel Keefer
Inks Mel Keefer
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath.

1 page The Texan story The "Invented" Bandits

Characters Bill Longley
Synopsis An express office clerk stages a fake robbery to cover up his own theft of cash.
Genre western
Script Bill Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Mel Keefer
Inks Mel Keefer
Notes Back cover; color.