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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published April 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes "Note: regarding all of these color photo covers, these are usually high-gloss, high Q pictures, specially-posed."

Cover Details

Synopsis "Roy, in earlier series photo, kneeling beside desert brush"
Genre Western
Pencils ? (Photo cover)
Inks ? (Photo cover)
Colors ? (Photo cover)
Notes "Note: regarding all of these color photo covers, these are usually high-gloss, high Q pictures, specially-posed."

1 page Roy Rogers story

Notes Inside front: Publicity shot of Roy with original Trigger wearing the revolutionary plastic saddle

Roy Rogers story "Wolves of Hunger Pass"

Synopsis Sheepherders, goatherders and sheep-rustling kidnappers keep Rogers busy.
Genre Western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Albert Micale
Notes "Submitted September 22, 1949."

Roy Rogers story "Apache Blood"

Synopsis Babies switched at birth create hate and discontent.
Genre Western
Script Al McKimson
Pencils Randy Steffen
Inks Andrew Bensen
Notes "Note: the artists have given Roy a black hat in this story. (He actually wore such in some early films, but not during this period of time). Submitted September 12, 1949."

Pioneers of the Old West story

Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale
Notes "Submitted September 8, 1949"

Trigger story

Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Harry Parks
Inks Harry Parks
Notes Trigger is outfitted in rodeo tack, most appropo for the time. Submitted September 22, 1949.

Roy Rogers promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes Inside back: same subscription/photo page as previous.

Roy Rogers illustration

Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover: Roy sits on a fence, whittling. Unusual photo, for fringed shirts were almost never worn with rounded-crown hats from earlier period.