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Genres: western

Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver

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News from Red Ryder Ranch

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Character(s): Fred Harman; Ben Larry Lynch: Bob Natiello

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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 ; Jake Barton; Bill (outlaw); Jim (outlaw)

First Line: Sheriff Newt's done a good job...

Synopsis: The crooked Jake Barton is trying to be elected Sheriff by using methods as crooked as himself.

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Pages: 16

Bunk House; Vaquero; Hair Brand

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Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): Red Ryder's Corral of Western Lingo

Synopsis: Drawings and text explaining many western words and expressions.

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Genres: adventure, humorous, western

Character(s): Slatsy (Telecomics boy); Janie (Telecomics girl); King; Kid; Igor (wrestler); Toby (society girl); Roger; Mad Mauler (wrestler); Slick (manager)

First Line: Hello, this is Janie...

Synopsis: Igor, a wrestler, has fallen in love with Toby, a rich society girl he has never met. He will defend his title in the stadium, but is watching the girl ringside more than his opponent, the Mad Mauler, and loses his title. In the dressing room he kills his manager in a quarrel.

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Pages: 5.75

Notes: First 1 & 2/3 page is the Telecomics kids watching King on TV.

Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: Publisher: K.K. Publications.

Little Beaver Cuts Loose

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Genres: western

Character(s): Little Beaver; Papoose (his horse); dead colt; Red Ryder; Thunder (his horse); four squirrels (dinner); lion hounds (heard); Three Toes (cougar); Gus Gowdry (rancher)

First Line: It was Little Beaver who first saw the dead colt.

Synopsis: Three Toes killed Gowdry's Colt; Little Beaver is delighted. Red rides to alert Gowdry. LB dislikes Gus; he and Po-ko embark to drive the cougar away, so Gus and his dogs will fail. They get a tree-top view. Three Toes, fleeing Gowdry's hounds, climbs the same tree. Gowdry beans Red with his gun butt, ropes Three Toes by a hind leg, drags Red under the dangling cat, then brags they'll find a man killed by a cougar, and he'll get the ranch for a song. Three Toes, cut loose by LB's arrow, drops on Gowdry, spitting fury. Gowdry backs to the gorge's edge, and fires; man and cat plummet.

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Notes: Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per page 91, 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 Cuts Loose. text for Red Ryder Comics #64. Sent June 26, 1948."

Ely art i.d. by David Porta, September 2021.

It's a tale of hard justice on an unrepentant sinner. Hard in the way Du Bois's The Crimson Badge of Bravery (Popular Comics #86 1943; p.d scans online) was hard in showing war to be a time of killing. Here, Red Ryder is the personification of mercy, riding to warn a neighbor; and Little Beaver is the Old Testament hard "wild Injun [who] can't ever forget a grudge" who settles accounts; but it is the villain's use of the killer cat that facilitates his own demise, just as (in another Du Bois story) the witch doctor lunging at Tarzan (who sidesteps) ends leaping to his own death.

Billy's Perilous Heroism

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Genres: western

Character(s): Billy Haynes (Kiyotee); Sandy Rivers (Kiyotee); Billy's pony; Silk Selden (outlaw); Ted Lucas (Kiyotee); Chet Stevens (journalist); Dr. Rivers (Sandy's dad); woman; Ben Lucas (Ted's dad); God (addressee of prayer)

First Line: Billy! Someone's shooting at Ted!

Synopsis: Shots ring out! Billy and Sandy deliver the gold per Ted's instructions. Billy returns for Ted, finds a blood trail to cliff's edge, floats downriver on a log. There's no purchase along the riverside's cliff walls, until he finds Ted lying delirious on a small hidden opening of sandy beach. He makes a raft, ties Ted to it, swims, steers. The rapids nigh kill them; they win through. Chet and Doc rejoice at the gold. Ben arrives: Billy brought Ted home! Doc goes to tend the boys. Clutching her hankie, tears on her cheek, Sandy prays God thanks.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Art signed in the last panel.

Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per page 91, 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: "Kyotee Kids. 6p. For Red Ryder Comics #65. Sent May 7, 1948."

Du Bois identifiers: the construction of the raft is this episode's engineering project. While each Kiyotee plays a part, here Billy takes the lead. Ted's active role is reduced to the instructions given before the episode gets underway: otherwise, he is an object for salvation. Sandy's expression of concern at the start is consistent with her established character of being motivated by compassion: Billy here is the steady head, the voice of obedience; then he takes the initiative, acting on the compassion Sandy expressed. As it often does in Du Bois scripts, Providence enters in, having preserved Ted in the hidden cove, and carrying both Billy and him through the rapids, safely, though the worse for wear. Sandy takes the role of prayer warrior, in an unusual turn where God is openly addressed and explicitly referred to in a comic book. An emotional prayer of thanks ("Thanks, God, for bringing them back--alive!"), it is the closing panel of the episode. Thematically, this is Du Bois's spirituality undisguised. Not pagan spirituality recast as monotheism. This is the God of Western civilization being acknowledged. Quite rare in a comic book of the time. Quite consistent with the life theme of Du Bois the fundamentalist lay preacher for whom writing comics was, as he expressed in an interview, only a means to finance his real ministry.

Fast Moving Adventure

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

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover