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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: western

Character(s): Little Beaver

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Pages: 1

Notes: Signed Fred Harman, but it is more likely one of his ghost artists.

Red Ryder Ranch

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Character(s): Fred Harman; Fred Harman Jr.; George Russell

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Pages: 2

Notes: Letter and photos from Fred Harman inside front and back cover.

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Genres: western

Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Sheriff Newt; Rustler one; Rustler two

First Line: Rustlers!

Synopsis: Red Ryder and Little Beaver tangle with two rustlers.

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Pages: 16

Job Number: R.R.C. #62-489

Notes: Jerry Bails' Who's Who has John Hampton as one ghost artist on Red Ryder comics in 1948. This could be him, as the horses are very similar to some in a Gene Autry Whitman book. Inking is heavier, but may be an imitation of Harman.

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Feature(s): King of the Royal Mounted; Telecomics

Character(s): Slatsy (TV kid); King; Kid; Glowing Ghost

First Line: Lessee...

Synopsis: The Glowing Ghost stops the train to get to the Nickel Mine payroll by jamming the stop-signal. To be continued...

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Pages: 6

Little Beaver Makes a Promise

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: adventure, western

Character(s): Po-ko; Little Beaver; mystery hermit; grizzly bear

First Line: 'Little Beaver!' wailed Po-ko, as her small warrior rode out of the sunrise toward the sheep corral.

Synopsis: Po-ko's twin lambs stolen, LB finds gold in payment tied to the ewe. LB reads the tracks. They lead to a masked hermit's ranch in a hidden valley within the wasteland. He holds them; they escape. Grizzly! LB's arrows fly, the man empties his bullets into the bear who swipes a paw at him: they both go down. LB approaches. The hermit's face is disfigured from a prior bear attack (why he didn't go to town to sell his gold, to buy livestock). LB leaves a pictogram in bear blood showing his hand over his mouth: LB's promise they'll keep respectful silence of the hermit's existence.

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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 Makes a Promise. text for Red Ryder Comics #61. Sent April 5, 1948."

Ely art i.d. by David Porta September 2021. Du Bois identifiers: "little brown fist" (Race, skin color; used a couple episodes later describing LB's "brown finger"); repeated identification of the kids as Navajos (Peoples of the world), and the story involves Po-ko's lambs missing from the flock (Didacticism, Peoples of the world: the Navajo were historically a great sheep-herding people); LB can tell from the tracks that the person wore moccasins but walked like a white man (World Cultures: moccasins, reading tracks); lambs, ewe, bear (Animals, ever present in Du Bois); LB's means of escape involves cutting his chaps into things to make a rope, tossing a loop over the wall to catch a projecting pole, and climbing up (Invention; Engineering); LB's arrows (American Indian culture); the hermit's disfigured face (the physically handicapped: a topic Du Bois covers in various other stories, generally accompanied by, or, as here, implying, community ostracization, and the afflicted bearing shame; Du Bois was himself afflicted, from childhood until he was about 40, with chronic brucellosis, resulting in his being mustered out of the Coast Guard as a young man, and forced to live as a convalescent at his parents' when he was 35, which led to his writing career); LB's promise, a pictogram (Compassion; Invention).

Hoist with His Own Petard

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Genres: adventure, drama, western

Character(s): Sandy Rivers (Kyotee); Dr. John Rivers; Mrs. Helen Rivers; Chet Stevens; Ted Lucas (Kyotee); Billy Haynes (Kyotee); Silk Selden (outlaw); Dobie (outlaw); two outlaws; Mr. Haynes

First Line: Back from the Kyotees Sunday meeting, Sandy Rivers reaches her bedroom window unobserved.

Synopsis: Sandy gets home, packs provisions, returns to the Kiyotee cave, and treats Chet. Ted and Billy rig a snare outside the Enterprise building, and deliver Kiyotee notes warning their and Sandy's folks of the Selden gang. Billy brings more provisions to the cave, and relieves Sandy to return home. On the way, she overhears Selden plot with his gang to bomb the Enterprise building and raid the town. She rides through town at night and warns the vigilantes of the coming attack. After setting the bomb, Dobie is caught in the snare. Boom! "Continued next month."

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Pages: 6

Notes: Signed Mical--e in last panel behind the blastboom.

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Genres: humorous, western

Character(s): Panamint Patty; Bareface

First Line: Things is shore pickin' up...

Synopsis: Bareface gets a letter telling him to send a line. Instead he sends a lion.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Dan Gormley also drew the Andy Panda comics.

Fast Moving Adventure

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Fred Harman; Red Ryder; Little Beaver

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Notes: Subscription form with drawing and photo on back cover.