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Issue Details

Issue #33
Published November 1949
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Gene Autry (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

6 page Champion story "Champion Meets a Horse Thief -PLEASE DELETE-"

Characters Champion (horse)
Genre animal
Script Gaylord DuBois
Notes Script submitted January 3, 1949. Script credit from David Porta, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal account books. PLEASE DELETE - Steinar Ådland found out that this story belongs in Gene Autry #30.

illustration "Gene Autry Pinup"

Characters Gene Autry (photo); Champion (photo; a horse)
Genre Western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)

24 page Gene Autry story "Outlaw Gold"

Characters Gene Autry; Sheriff Dan Wilder; Brick Gamlen; Champion (horse); Lena; Doc Joel Knapp; Flapjack Hobbs; Jocko (burro); Sheriff Creston
Synopsis First line: "One afternoon in a west Texas courtroom, Gene Autry and sheriff Dan Wilder listen intently..."
Genre Western
Pencils Nicholas Firfires
Inks Nicholas Firfires
Notes Horses and hands are so consistant Firfires, that he must have done both pencilling and inking Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.23)

6 page story "Kinda Irregular"

Characters Earl Dorsey: Max Talbot; Monty; Bob Harris; Alice Dorsey; Sheriff
Synopsis First line: "One morning, Earl Dorsey, editor of the Sagebrush Gazette, has a couple of callers"
Genre Western
Notes Can this be the pencil of Pete Alvarado? It is the same style that several of the Panhandle Pete and Gene stories in Gene Autry Comics. He is credited to have pencilled Panhandle and Gene at this time. I don't think he was that good with horses, so maybe he is credited with too much in Gene Autry. Then who is it? Art comments by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.23)

2 page text story "Hop Sing"

Characters Whitey Gibbs; Sheriff Dave Kelsey; Hop Sing
Synopsis First line: "The night was loud with storm. Between the deafening thunderclaps, Whitey Gibbs could hear the rain beating..."
Genre Western
Pencils Pete Alvarado ?
Letters typeset
Notes Copyright, 1949, by Western Printing & Litho. Co.

16 page Gene Autry story "Alias the Dude"

Characters Gene Autry; Champion [as Champ] (a horse); The Dude; Rick Landin; Hype Wilbur; Chub; Flapjack Hobbs; Sheriff
Synopsis First line: "Footprints! In the middle of this waterless nowhere!"
Genre Western
Notes The art in this story is very similar to several Panhandle Pete and some Gene stories, but is it Alvarado work? He is supposed to have started on Gene as penciller in 1950. But may have been credited with too much. The horses and hands are too good to be him when compared with some Alvarado drawing in Whitman Books. Art comments by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.23) The last half page is a promo ad from the publisher: Subscribe now-Mail this coupon now!

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Characters Gene Autry (photo)
Genre Western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes On inside back cover in black and white.

1 page illustration "Gene Autry Pinup"

Characters Gene Autry (photo)
Genre Western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover