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Genres: western

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Feature(s): News from Red Ryder Ranch

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Notes: Inside front and back cover B&W

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Genres: western

First Line: Yesterday Little Beaver and the Duchess...

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Telecomics Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted

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Little Beaver Finds His Friends

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Genres: nature, western

Feature(s): Little Beaver

Character(s): Red Ryder (rancher); Thunder (his horse); Little Beaver (Navajo youngster); Papoose (his pony); Sheriff Crewe (dialogue); posse (referenced); four horses (Red's purebreds); cow-pony (one of the four); beavers; four bad men (train robbers, hoss thieves); fourth robber

First Line: The big cowboy and his small Navajo shadow had just hit their saddles when a shout and a mutter of hoofbeats halted them.

Synopsis: The robbers replaced their worn-out ponies with Red's purebreds. The Sheriff's posse's ponies are spent. Red and Little Beaver follow sign until they lose it, then head in opposite directions. Beaver follows a hunch, finds the robbers, but is outnumbered. He takes refuge, through the underwater entrance, in a beaver lodge under the beaver dam. He talks to them in Navajo hoping they won't bite him. By and by, he fetches Red, who beards the robbers, and with Little Beaver's help captures them. Beaver wonders how much of the reward his beaver friends earned.

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Notes: Du Bois entry states: "Little Beaver Finds Friends. text for Red Ryder Comics #54. Sent August 18, 1947."

This is a straight ahead animal story (by the co-creator of Animal Comics) told organically. The outlaws are the plot device that drives the action, but from the start Du Bois draws attention to animals and to nature, the landscape and it's residents, unfolding an ecological panorama that lands itself inside a beaver lodge.

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Animals:
"a mutter of hoofbeats"; "my purebred quarter horses"; "the worn-out ponies"; "'Our hosses are played out, Red."; "Grouse and squirrels"; "a beaver pond"; "Tying Papoose"; "the cow-pony"; "from the pond came the loud slap of a beaver's tail. The horses bolted."; "The sudden thunder of hoofs"; "pushed his mount to a gallop"; "A bullet burned his pony's rump. The response was a wild bucking."; "a large hogan-shaped beaver lodge rising out of the pond"; "through the water he saw the base of the lodge"; "he could FEEL that one or more beavers were there in the blackness"; "he began talking to his furry hosts"; "Little brothers. Give me leave to stay here in your lodge ... Let me stay here"; "Something soft and furry brushed past him and slipped into the pond. There were two more splashes"; "the lodge of his furry friends"; "

Nature:
"a wild, mountainous country. Brawling brooks and swift, small rivers coursed through the timbered valleys. Tiny lakes gleamed here and there below the heights."; "...a brook where the water washed out every sign."; "an hour till daylight... At sunset"; "The sun was just peaking over the mountains"; "a little pocket-like valley"; "in a thick stand of trees"; "bushes along the edge of the stream and pond."; "a large hogan-shaped beaver lodge rising out of the pond"; "into the water ... the pond's shadowy depths"; "through the water he saw the base of the lodge"; "the submerged entrance"; "Swimming underwater to the edge of the pond"; "a breeze brought the scent of frying meat'; "silent as a weasel"; "my beaver friends"

Peoples of the World:
"his small Navajo shadow"; "hogan-shaped"; "the small warrior"; "He told them in Navajo"; "Little Beaver's arrow, fired from the window, had pinned [the fourth robber's] hand to the wood."; "'Doh-dah,' the Navajo youngster denied."

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• "played out"

• "Hoss thieves"

• "stand of trees" (A forest stand is a contiguous community of trees sufficiently uniform in composition, structure, age, size, class, distribution, spatial arrangement, site quality, condition, or location to distinguish it from adjacent communities. A forest is a "collection of stands" also utilizing the practices of forestry. Wikipedia);

• "cow-pony ("cow pony noun a small horse trained for use in cattle ranching." Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages);

• "silent as a weasel";

• ""H'ist 'em!'";

• "Doh-dah";

Accents: ""H'ist 'em!'"; "Hoss thieves"

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Genres: western

Feature(s): The Kiyotee Kids

Character(s): Ted Lucas (Kiyotee, kid); Silk Selden (counterfeiter, bank robber, gambler, killer); Gib (a Selden outlaw); "Judge" Tobey (a Selden outlaw); Sheriff Simms; Doc Rivers (Sandy's dad, a posseman); Billy Haynes (Kiyotee, kid); Sandy Rivers (Kiyotee, kid); Jace Orcutt (schoolboy); two other schoolboys

First Line: Dressed as a Mexican sheepherder, Ted Lucas builds a trap for nightriders.

Synopsis: Ted leaves Tobey and Gib tied up for Sheriff Simms and Doc, along with the recovered stolen bank loot. Among the Kiyotees Ted reckons Alkali Town is free of bums and badmen: Silk won't be back anytime soon. A month later Sandy picks up a twenty dollar bill Jase dropped. She presents it to the other Kiyotees for inspection, pointing to evidence it's counterfeit. Billy confirms. They'll shadow Jace in shifts, Sandy taking first shift, evening, and leave a chalk trail if need be.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Du Bois entry states: "Kyotee Kids. 6 (+2) pages. For Red Ryder Comics #54. Sent September 8, 1947."

"Copr. 1947 by Stephen Slesinger Inc."

Account books entry states "6 (+2) pages." Story is presented in 6 pages with 46 panels, the panel count per page being 7-8-8-8-7-8. Had it been presented in 8 pages, retaining the opening wide panel as is, it would have been 5-6-6-6-6-6-5-6. The flow of the panels' narrative fits the 8-page presentation, which, had it been so, the panel breakdown would conform each of 8 pages as an internally consistent dramatic sequence.

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"nightriders" (archaic meaning, e.g. "Wade now reached the conclusion that he was being held up by a highwayman, and the best thing for him to do would be to comply with his request, for he knew that these fellows in this country, highwayman or Nightrider, were as desperate in character as the most blackened criminal the world holds." The Nightriders' Feud (1912), Walter Caruth McConnell).

Panel 1:
Sheriff: "Pull up. There's a hoss ahead!"
Doc: ""Look out for a trick, Sheriff."

Panel 2:
Sheriff: "It's tied and here's a sack!"

Panel 3:
Doc: "Sheriff Simms, look here! 'Judge' Tobey and Gib, all tied up for delivery--and another sack of bank loot."

Panel 4:
Sheriff: "..With the sign stuck on their backs! Say, Doc, who are these unseen citizens that always sign their work with the picture of a COYOTE?"
Doc: "Your guess is as good as mine, Sheriff..They seem to be everywhere!"

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Ted [to himself, hiding, off in the bushes]: "If they only knew..that we're just three kids--it would spoil everything!"

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Feature(s): Panamint Patty

First Line: Help! Help! Hey Shairf, Help!

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