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Issue Details

Issue #1262
Published December 1961-February 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1262." Code number is THE REBEL O.S. #1262-6111. Copyright 1961 by The Rebel Company. Cover title is "Johnny Yuma's Journal The Rebel." Fourth of four "The Rebel" Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series. This issue exists in ad and non-ad versions. See the index for Four Color #1262 [ad].

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Characters Johnny Yuma (as played by Nick Adams, photo)]
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1262." Code number is THE REBEL O.S. #1262-6111. Copyright 1961 by The Rebel Company. Cover title is "Johnny Yuma's Journal The Rebel." Fourth of four "The Rebel" Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series. This issue exists in ad and non-ad versions. See the index for Four Color #1262 [ad].

1 page The Rebel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Frightened Town / Cloud of Danger"

Characters Johnny Yuma (as played by Nick Adams, photo)
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky; ? (photo)
Inks ?; ? (photo)
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script submitted on April 13, 1961. 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). This sequence is replaced with a promo in some copies.

15 page The Rebel story "The Frightened Town"

Characters Johnny Yuma
Synopsis Yuma fights off robbers as he takes a stage. When the stage arrives at its destination, a fellow passenger learns that her father, the town's sheriff, had been killed three months earlier. The woman had seen one of the bandits' unmasked face and Yuma has to protect her from retribution. Later Yuma overhears a conversation that deepens the mystery regarding the woman's father.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks George Roussos ?; Mike Peppe ?
Notes Script submitted on March 28, 1961. 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). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

2 page The Rebel story "The Flying Norseman"

Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe ?
Notes Script submitted on April 13, 1961. 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). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by a centerfold ad in some copies.

15 page The Rebel story "Cloud of Danger"

Characters Johnny Yuma
Synopsis Yuma is ambushed by Wolf Yorick during a blizzard and is forced to guide the man to the Big Nugget mining camp. At the camp, Yorick holds a young girl captive to force the miners to give him her weight in gold.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Frank Giacoia ?
Notes Script submitted on April 11, 1961. 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). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Half of the last page is replaced by an ad in some copies.

1 page The Rebel filler "Sierra Gold"

Synopsis Facts about finding gold in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Genre western; fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Sequence has The Rebel logo, but the characters do not appear. Script submitted on April 13, 1961. 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). Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page The Rebel filler The "Long Tom"

Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Notes Back cover. Script submitted on April 13, 1961. 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). Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.