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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published February-April 1955
Frequency Quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing George T. Delacorte, Jr. (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Notes Copyright, 1954, by Gene Autry. Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

Cover Details

Characters Champion; Gene Autry (photo, inset)
Synopsis Champion, center, running toward the reader, on a rocky snow-covered slope, is chased by two wolves, one on either side.
Genre Animal
Pencils ? (painting); ? (photo)
Inks ? (painting); ? (photo)
Colors ? (painting); ? (photo)
Notes Painted cover

1 page text article "Old Whitey, Warhorse in Three Armies"

Synopsis Whitey served on both sides in the Mexican-American War (for Gen. Zachary Taylor on the U.S. side), and for the Union Army in the Civil War.
Genre Fact
Pencils ? (illo)
Inks ? (illo)
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside front cover

17 page Champion story "Champion and The Trap"

Characters Champion
Synopsis Ricky, Champion, and Rebel thwart horse thieves who use an old-fashioned water trap (pen-up a water-hole with cut trees, and a narrow opening) to capture horses.
Genre Animal

17 page Champion story "Champion and Trouble at Coyote Ridge"

Characters Champion
Synopsis Bank robbers on the run waylay a stranger, leaving him unconscious in the brush. Ricky and Champ rescue him, and recover incriminating evidence. The robbers assume the stranger's reservation at a dude ranch; they are found out.
Genre Animal