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Issue Details

Issue #1225
Published October-December 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE DEPUTY, No. 1225." Code number is DEPUTY O.S. #1225-619. Copyright 1961 by Top Gun Company. Based on "The Deputy" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Simon Fry (as played by Henry Fonda, photo); Clay McCord (as played by Allen Case, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page The Deputy foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Renegade Rustler / Hide-Out Town"

Characters Simon Fry (as played by Henry Fonda, photo); Clay McCord (as played by Allen Case, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Sparling; ? (photo)
Inks Jack Sparling; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories.

15 page The Deputy story "The Renegade Rustler"

Characters Simon Fry; Clay McCord; Fran McCord; Brandy McCord
Synopsis Clay poses as a rustler to find out who is supplying stolen cattle to a contractor, who sells the cattle to an Indian agent as food for the Apaches.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling

2 page The Deputy story "Robber in the Night"

Characters Simon Fry; Clay McCord; Fran McCord
Synopsis Simon Fry has to decide which of four men robbed Clay's store.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling

15 page The Deputy story "Hide-Out Town"

Characters Simon Fry; Clay McCord; Fran McCord; Brandy McCord
Synopsis Simon and Clay go looking for an outlaw "hide-out town" that may be near Silver City.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling

1 page The Deputy filler "Arizona Towns--Charleston"

Synopsis The history of Charleston, Arizona; a once-booming silver smelting town, now abandoned.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. "The Deputy" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear.

1 page The Deputy filler "Arizona Landmarks"

Synopsis Description of some Arizona landmarks.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Notes Back cover. "The Deputy" logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear. This sequence is replaced in some copies by an ad. See Sequence 7.

1 page Kellogg's Corn Flakes advertisement "Official Huck Hound Club Special Membership Offers"

Characters Huckleberry Hound (cameo); Yogi Bear (cameo); Pixie (cameo); Dixie (cameo); Mr. Jinks (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Huck Hound Club. Membership cost is 15 cents and one boxtop from Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Mail-in coupon is part of ad. This ad replaces Sequence 6 in some copies.