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Issue Details

Issue #1044
Published October-December 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, No. 1044." Code number is H.G.W.T.O.S. #1044-5910. Copyright 1959 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Third of three Have Gun, Will Travel Four Colors. Continues as Have Gun, Will Travel (Dell, 1960 series) #4 (January-March 1960). Based on the 1957-63 CBS TV series "Have Gun, Will Travel."

Cover Details - "The Missing Man"

Characters Paladin (as played by Richard Boone, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page Have Gun, Will Travel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Missing Man / The Reluctant Rustler"

Characters Paladin (as played by Richard Boone, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo); Alberto Giolitti
Inks ? (photo); Alberto Giolitti
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. One photo. Two panels for each story with text underneath.

16 page Have Gun, Will Travel story "The Missing Man"

Characters Paladin
Synopsis A wealthy scrap and junk dealer's daughter defies her father and hires Paladin to find her missing fiancé. Paladin finds him held captive in the midst of a fleet of abandoned ships in San Francisco Bay.
Genre western
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page Have Gun, Will Travel story "The Reluctant Rustler"

Characters Paladin
Synopsis Paladin is summoned to help a lady rancher who is having small numbers of cattle stolen on a regular basis. Paladin recognizes her foreman as a former rustler and has to decide if he's gone straight, as he claims, or is part of the gang of rustlers.
Genre western
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Rustler's Paradise: Hole in the Wall"

Characters Butch Cassidy (cameo)
Synopsis Facts about a remote Wyoming valley used as a hideout by outlaws.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "San Francisco's Ships"

Synopsis Facts about ships left abandoned in San Francisco Bay when sailors jumped ship during the 1849 Gold Rush.
Genre fact
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with text underneath.