Credits
Colorist(s):
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Subject Matter
Genres:
western
Feature(s):
The Kiyotee Kids
Character(s):
Billy Haynes (Kiyotee, a kid); Ted Lucas (Kiyotee, a kid); Silk Selden (outlaw gang leader); Hondo (Selden outlaw); Sandy Rivers (Kiyotee, a kid); six Selden men (described, several dialogue); Brazos (one of the six, addressed); Sheriff Simms (Alkali Town Sheriff)
First Line:
Armed only with baseball bats and a toy cannon, Ted and Billy take the trail of their kidnapped Kiyotee partner, Sandy Rivers.
Synopsis:
The boys find a cabin under a hanging rock where Hondo proposes killing the witness and dumping her in a hole. Silk concurs. The boys blast red pepper through the window, charge the room swinging, disabling the villains. Billy checks Sandy, who says bind the badmen first, then unbind her. Riding with the prisoners, Ted hears the outlaws' signal. They hush. Sandy's horse whinnies! The arriving gang think it's Silk coming in late. The kids make town, toss a note through the sheriff's bedroom window saying pick up the badmen and the counterfeit money they'd been passing.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
6
Notes:
Du Bois entry states: "Kyotee Kids. 6 (+2) pages. For Red Ryder Comics #56. Sent September 15, 1947."
Account books entry states "6 (+2) pages." Story is presented in 6 pages with 46 panels, the panel count per page being 7-8-7-8-8-8. Had it been presented in 8 pages, retaining the wide panels as is, it would have been 5-6-6-5-6-6-6-6. The flow of the panels' narrative is clearly designed for the 8-page presentation, with the 8-page panel breakdown presenting each page as an internally consistent dramatic sequence.
Du Bois identifiers:
Nature/geography; Language: ("arroyo" a steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, found chiefly in the southwestern US).
Language: ("monte" - Silk: "We took in $1,089 in genuine bills and passed out $2,000 in counterfeit at monte last week, Hondo, but now we've got to move on!" Hondo: "You mean because of the kid? Why not kill her and drop her in a hole and keep on with the monte game in town? If we pull out now, it's the same as admittin' we snatched her!" Referring to Three Card Monte.)
Language: ("curly wolves" - Sandy: "--but don't stop to untie me until you've made sure of those curly wolves! They won't stay out long!" Western lingo, Curly Wolf: Real tough guy, dangerous man).
Assertive female characters (same passage, Sandy being sensible).
Kids working in concert, each making a contribution: Sandy, above. Billy, looking to her welfare; Ted, hushing everyone when the bandits arrive, and, when the horse whinnies, possibly giving them away to the bandits, telling everyone to hold still, keeping his head in a tense moment.
Language: ("burn the wind" - Ted: "Okay, Kiyotees! BURN THE WIND! We're far enough away now..." to travel very fast; 1891 American dialect).
Nature/geology: ("that hanging rock")
Animals/horses: (The horse ridden by Sandy as they're escaping the hide-out is the horse that almost gives them away to the outlaws who have just arrived at the cabin, when it whinnies: the whinnying is presented in a word balloon, "Wheee-eeee eeee-eeee! Heee-heeee-heee-heee!" because in Du Bois animals are distinct characters, each with its own voice. Animals with word balloons or with sound effect voices are a staple in Du Bois. And the animal creates a moment of suspense in the plot, carrying the narrative forward.)
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