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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published March-May 1956
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 Designed, produced, and © 1956, by Western Printing & Lithographing Company.

Cover Details

Characters Rex Allen (photo); Koko (photo; horse)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo); ?
Inks ? (photo); ?
Colors ? (photo); ?
Notes Photo cover of Rex Allen and his horse Koko with painted background art added.

1 page text article "Dwarf of the Desert"

Synopsis Facts and legends about the pinyon tree of the Southwest.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Sparky Moore (signed)
Inks Sparky Moore (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Black and white. Text article with one large illustration. Just below the foot of the kneeling indian, is an S., the sign of Sparky Moore.

15 page Rex Allen story "Blueprint for Disaster"

Characters Rex Allen; Koko (horse); Mitch Gates; Sheriff Bush
Synopsis Rex Allen has to outwit a gang who are getting inside tips to set up ambushes of stages.
Genre western
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning

8 page story "Melvina Finds a Way"

Characters Bobby; Melvina (mule); Dusty Harrison; Lige (villain); Gard (villain)
Synopsis A crooked foreman tries to take over a man's ranch, but the owner is saved with help from a mule named Melvina.
Genre western
Pencils Nat Edson
Inks Nat Edson

1 page text story "Jezebel"

Synopsis A burro with a disagreeable disposition guides her owner to a gold strike.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with small title illustration.

9 page Rex Allen story "The Penny Ante Rustlers"

Characters Rex Allen; Koko (horse)
Synopsis Rex Allen has to find a couple of crooks who are building up a herd by stealing just a couple of horses at a time.
Genre western
Notes Story concludes on inside back cover in black and white. Last panel is Dell's "Pledge to Parents."

1 page [Rex Allen] illustration

Characters Rex Allen (photo); Koko (photo; horse)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover. Posed photograph of Rex Allen and his horse Koko.