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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published August-October 1956
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36

Cover Details

Characters Tonto
Synopsis Full-page color illustration depicts Tonto ducking a bullet that shatters a hanging lamp.
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Notes front cover

1 page text article "The Dugout Canoe of the Southern Indians"

Synopsis Article with one black and white illustration about the construction and use of an Indian dugout canoe.
Genre fact
Script Red Thundercloud
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover

7 page Tonto story "Flood Water"

Characters Tonto; Scout; Doctor; Tim (settler); Settlers
Synopsis Tonto helps a doctor cross a raging river during a storm to treat settlers suspected of having contracted typhoid.
Genre western
Letters typeset

10 page Tonto story "The Hero Worshipper"

Characters Tonto; Scout; Stone Bear; Thunder Cloud; Tonto's Companions; Crow Youths
Synopsis Fourteen-year-old Tonto is followed about by a hero worshipping boy called Thunder Cloud. Crow youths attempt to steal horses from Stone Bear's camp.
Genre western
Letters typeset

1 page text story "Dig-in-the-Sand"

Characters Sun Cloud; Zuni Boys; Zuni Chief; Zuni Tribesmen
Synopsis Zuni boy Sun Cloud saves his people when he finds an underground stream during a drought.
Genre western
Pencils ? (header illustration)
Inks ? (header illustration)
Colors ? (header illustration)
Letters typeset

4 page The Painted Pony story "The Valley That Shook"

Characters The Painted Pony; Mustang Leader; Wolves; Herd of Wild Horses
Synopsis The herd enters an unknown valley and is threatened by an earthquake. The Painted Pony and the Mustang Leader guide the herd to safety.
Genre animal; western
Letters typeset

10 page Tonto story "The Fabulous Hunter"

Characters Tonto; Scout; Stone Bear; Lord Cecil; Guide; Ned (outlaw); Outlaw Gang
Synopsis Tonto and Scout rescue an English aristocrat from outlaws holding him in the badlands for ransom.
Genre western
Letters typeset

1 page text article "Indian War Records"

Synopsis Article with one black and white illustration about Indian pictographs and petroglyphs.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes inside back cover