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Issue Details

Issue #1058
Published November 1959-January 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "COLT .45, No. 1058." Code number is COLT.45 O.S. #1058-5911. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bro. Pictures, Inc. Third of three Colt .45 Four Colors. Continues as Colt .45 (Dell, 1960 series) #4 (February-April 1960). Based on the "Colt .45" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Chris Colt (as played by Wayde Preston, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page Colt .45 foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters Chris Colt (as played by Wayde Preston, photo)
Synopsis Preview of first story.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos with typeset text. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Colt .45 story "Search at Sunrise Spring"

Characters Chris Colt
Synopsis An Army supply wagon disappears between Fort Davis and Sunrise Spring, a rest area owned by Sam Dawson. Dawson owns the land and water and charges high prices for use of the camp and for water. Capt. Chris Colt goes to Sunrise Spring to investigate.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Colt .45 story "Sharpshooter"

Characters Chris Colt
Synopsis A number of post offices have been robbed at the same time a traveling circus has been in town. Chris Colt and Lt. Conners go undercover as a sharpshooting act in that circus to solve the robberies.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Freighting West"

Synopsis Facts about the freight haulers who brought supplies to the outposts and settlements of the West.
Genre fact
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page story "No Waste of Water"

Synopsis Facts about the use of scarce water in the old West.
Genre fact
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)