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Issue Details

Issue #1221
Published September-November 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BONANZA, No. 1221." Code number is BONANZA O.S. #1221-618. Copyright 1961 by National Broadcasting Company. Index by Max Capp. Additonal information added by Merlin Haas (August 3, 2008)

Cover Details - "Bonanza"

Characters Lorne Greene (as Ben Cartwright, photo); Michael Landon (as Little Joe Cartwright, photo); Dan Blocker (as Hoss Cartwright, photo); Pernell Roberts (as Adam Cartwright, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
Notes Indicia title is "BONANZA, No. 1221." Code number is BONANZA O.S. #1221-618. Copyright 1961 by National Broadcasting Company. Index by Max Capp. Additonal information added by Merlin Haas (August 3, 2008)

1 page Bonanza foreword, introduction, preface, afterword " The Snow Walkers / Rapiers at Paiute Creek"

Characters Lorne Greene (as Ben Cartwright, photo); Michael Landon (as Little Joe Cartwright, photo); Dan Blocker (as Hoss Cartwright, photo); Pernell Roberts (as Adam Cartwright, photo)
Synopsis Introductions to "The Snow Walkers" and the "Rapiers At Paiute Creek" stories, with photograph of the Bonanza cast.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Script submitted on November 11, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

15 page Bonanza story "The Snow Walkers"

Characters Ben Cartwright; his sons [Adam Cartwright; Hoss Cartwright; Little Joe Cartwright]; Birdsong; Captain Warwick; deserters [including Corbey; Nucky; Stagg]; Jerry Buck (as a corpse); Rolf Thorsen
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Script submitted as a 16-page story on October 8, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

2 page Bonanza story "Little Joe's Secret"

Characters Ben Cartwright; his sons [Adam Cartwright; Hoss Cartwright; Little Joe Cartwright]; Chief Walking Horse; his daughter [Dancing Bough]; Susan Wall
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Script submitted on December 7, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

15 page Bonanza story "Rapiers At Paiute Creek"

Characters Baron Werner Frass Von Felsenheim; his daughter Maria Von Felsenheim; his dog Victor; Ben Cartwright; his sons [Adam Cartwright; Hoss Cartwright; Little Joe Cartwright]; Jobart; his sons [Dan Jobart; Shack Jobart]; Larson; Murray; Sam Holt; Sheriff Burr
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Script submitted as a 16 page story on October 24, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

1 page filler "Snowshoe Thompson"

Characters James Sisson; John A. "Snowshoe" Thompson [born Jon Torsteinson Rui]
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on November 8, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

1 page filler "Duelling In America"

Characters Aaron Burr; Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington); Colonel Morton; Deaf Smith (scout); James Bowie; James Shields (politician); President Abraham Lincoln; Robert Ogden
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Outside back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. Script submitted on November 8, 1960 under the title "Duelling in the USA." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).