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Issue Details

Issue #1202
Published July-September 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "RAWHIDE, No. 1202." Code number is RAWHIDE O.S. #1202-616. Copyright 1961 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Based on the "Rawhide" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Rowdy Yates (as played by Clint Eastwood, photo); Gil Favor (as played by Eric Fleming, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page Rawhide foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Whiplash / The Captives"

Characters Rowdy Yates (as played by Clint Eastwood, photo); Gil Favor (as played by Eric Fleming, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the two main stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle; ? (photo)
Inks Dan Spiegle; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photos and two-panel previews of each story.

15 page Rawhide story "Whiplash"

Characters Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates
Synopsis After his son is killed in a gunfight by a trail herder, Jack Morse takes to drinking and gives control of his cattle dip station to a thug who demands an unreasonable charge for using the tick-killing bath. Favor and Yates come up with a plan to force Morse to come to his senses.
Genre western
Script Eric Friewald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

2 page Rawhide story "A Greenhorn Learns the Facts"

Characters Wishbone; Gil Favor (cameo)
Synopsis Wishbone teaches a youngster facts about horses.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle

15 page Rawhide story "The Captives"

Characters Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates; Wishbone (cameo)
Synopsis When the cattle drive has a rest stop by a river, Rowdy Yates takes the opportunity to visit a young lady he met the year before. Meanwhile, a gang fleeing a bank robbery decides to hold up in the hacienda of the woman and her father and Yates is taken captive with the others.
Genre western
Script Eric Friewald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Rawhide filler "Cow Country Lingo"

Synopsis Definitions of four cowboy slang terms: rustle, maverick, buckaroo, and dogie.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. The Rawhide logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear.

1 page Schwinn Bicycles advertisement "New Schwinn Flying Star"

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Schwinn Flying Star model bicycle for $44.88. Arnold, Schwinn and Company, Chicago, Ill.