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Issue: Red Ryder Comics #58
Publication Date: May 1948
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Issues: #58 of 139 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
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Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/13/1948
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date per Page 104, Catalog of Copyright Entries 1948 Periodicals Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 1 Pt 2.

Entry states: "Red Ryder comics. Hawley publications, inc. 1948, no. 58. May © Apr. 13; B135082."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Smoke Signal

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: western
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Pages: 1
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Red Ryder Ranch News Page 1

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Genres: non-fiction, western
Feature(s): News from Red Ryder Ranch
First Line: With the buds and new shoots bursting out around us, we are enjoying Spring after a long Winter...
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Continued on inside back cover.
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Genres: western
First Line: On the trail to town Red and Little Beaver meet Sally Winters.
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Pages: 16
Job Number: R.R.C.#58-485
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Telecomics Presents Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (Telecomics portion); ? (King of the Royal Mounted portion)
Penciller(s): ? (Telecomics portion); ? (King of the Royal Mounted portion)
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Genres: western
First Line: Time for another swell program!
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Pages: 6
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Little Beaver's Whack-um-Busher

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Red Ryder (rancher); Little Beaver (Navajo youngster); Po-ko (Navajo youngster); dude rider (robber); Papoose (Little Beaver's horse); smaller pony (Po-ko's pony); unshaven man with a gun; a rifleman (counterfeiter); Red's two prisoners (counterfeiters)
First Line: Red Ryder pulled up his black horse, Thunder, beside the river trail in a small cloud of dust.
Synopsis: Red tells Little Beaver he's hunting counterfeiters for the sheriff. Little Beaver hopes he can help, and get out of doing women's work carrying water for Po-ko. A dude rider tells Little Beaver he's looking for one or two white men. Little Beaver wastes time leading him around, but fears entering a haunted cave. A rifleman murders the dude, Little Beaver knocks him out with a blunt arrow, binds him. Red arrives with two more prisoners. The dude had robbed the counterfeiters. Red's pleased all the gang have been nabbed. Little Beaver is, too.
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Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per page 90, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "Little Beaver's Whack-um-Busher. text for Red Ryder Comics #58. Sent December 14, 1947."

When Red asks, "You haven't heard of any strange white men hanging around this part of the range, have you," Little Beaver replies, "Doh-dah!"

The "white men" is a Du Bois identifier theme of race or skin color; and "Doh-dah" is a Du Bois identifier theme of language / foreign languages.

"dooda" in the Navajo-English dictionary, as an interjection, translates as "not" or "no"; is "used to show disagreement or negation"

Little Beaver complains, "All day me got to lug water, do-um squaw jobs! Me want to ride, hunt, fight---"

Two identifiers here: sex roles and cultural attitudes (which famously is a theme of the Du Bois Bonanza story, "Double Harness," and it also appears in a variety of other Du Bois comics stories, text stories, and Big Little Books).

Later, the dude rider tells Little Beaver, "I'm looking for a white man---maybe two of 'em." Again the race skin color Du Bois identifier.

Another passage is replete with identifiers.

"He [the stranger] gave another glance and a grunt, when Little Beaver pointed out a big, shallow cave, halfway up a sandstone cliff. Then he took the lead. Little Beaver hung back, afraid. Yet how to explain his reason to the dude white man? The way they were heading now would bring them straight to Spirit Rock. The ugly pock-marked butte---where the desert wind howled and whistled through a hundred holes and caves---had a bad reputation among the Navajos. To the superstitious savages the wind's eerie shrieks were the voices of evil spirits."

Du Bois themes and identifiers here include: 1) race, skin color ("the dude white man"); 2) Nature (cave, cliff, butte, desert wind); 3) peoples of the world (" the Navajos"); 4) cultural spiritual beliefs and religion ("evil spirits"); 5) American Indian superstition ("Little Beaver hung back, afraid"; Du Bois dealt with this same theme characterizing Tonto in the first chapter of the 1938 Big Little Book, BLB #1465, "The Lone Ranger and the Menace of Murder Valley" in which Tonto fears to enter a cave for the same reason); and, finally, 6) "savages."

In the 1930s and 1940s Du Bois routinely used "savages" in referring to preliterate people regarded as uncivilized (e.g., in "The Crusoes," and "Martan the Marvel Man").

From dictionary.com: "A savage: The (now offensive) noun sense 'a member of a preliterate people regarded as uncivilized' dates from the second half of the 16th century."
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Selden Strikes Again

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Harry Haynes (bank director, Billy's dad); Ben Lucas (bank president, Ted's dad); Doc Rivers (bank director, Sandy's dad); Sandy Rivers (Kiyotee, a kid); Chet Stevens (newsman); Ted Lucas (Kiyotee, a kid); Billy Haynes (Kiyotee, a kid); stage driver; paymaster (a Silver Streak Mine payroll guard); Silk Selden (outlaw gang leader); four Selden men (pictured, one dialogue); two News Office workers (pictured, one dialogue); Alkali Sheriff; Alkali townsperson; a second Silver Streak Mine payroll guard (referenced; a plot-hole)
First Line: First line Well, Ben, how does it feel to be the new President of The Alkali Bank?
Synopsis: The mine payroll has gone out with only two guards. Chet thinks Selden is out of action. The KKs believe Selden and his gang are still active and two guards aren't enough. They tail the stagecoach. With deliberate murderous aim of rifle, Selden murders the driver, and puts bullets into the door of the stage holding the paymaster. Ted starts a landslide, driving off the gang and saving the payroll. The paymaster is alive, with a shoulder wound. Ted sees the stage gets to the mine. Later, it returns to town with a note from the Kiyotee naming Selden and suggesting more guards next time.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per page 90, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "The Kyotee Kids. 6p. For Red Ryder Comics #58. Sent October 7, 1947."

Signed Harry Parks at bottom of penultimate panel.
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Genres: humorous, western
First Line: C'mon, Cactus! Get goin'!
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Red Ryder Ranch News Page 2

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, western
Feature(s): News from Red Ryder Ranch
First Line: Hi-yum folks! Here more pictures of Red Ryder Ranch friends...
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Continued from inside front cover.
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First Line: Fast moving adventure!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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