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Issue Details

Issue #1048
Published September 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE HORSE SOLDIERS, No. 1048". Code number is H.S.O.S. #1048-599. Copyright 1959 by The Mirisch Company, Inc. Adapted from the 1959 movie "The Horse Soldiers." Cover appears to be a poster for the movie.

Cover Details

Characters John Wayne (as Col. John Marlowe, painting); William Holden (as Maj. Hank Kendall, painting); Constance Towers (as Hannah Hunter, painting)
Genre period; war
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE HORSE SOLDIERS, No. 1048". Code number is H.S.O.S. #1048-599. Copyright 1959 by The Mirisch Company, Inc. Adapted from the 1959 movie "The Horse Soldiers." Cover appears to be a poster for the movie.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Horse Soldiers"

Characters John Wayne (as Col. John Marlowe, photo) (cameo); Stan Jones (as Gen. U.S. Grant, photo) (cameo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre war
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie with a partial cast and credits list.

32 page story "The Horse Soldiers"

Characters Col. John Marlowe; Hannah Hunter; Col. Phil Secord; Maj. Richard Gray; Surgeon Curtis
Synopsis Col. Marlowe and his Union calvary strike deep into Confederate territory and after a pitched battle at Newton Station, continue to fight their way to the Union forces at Baton Rogue.
Genre war
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Adapted from the 1959 movie "The Horse Soldiers." Based on a true story from the Civil War. In the movie the surgeon is named Kendall, not Curtis.

1 page filler "The Confederate Foxhole"

Synopsis Short article on the Confederate use of gabions, a forerunner of the modern foxhole.
Genre fact; war
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Three photos from the movie plus typeset text.

1 page filler "The Spirit of the South"

Synopsis Facts about filming one scene from the movie.
Genre fact
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Four black and white photos from the movie and typeset text.