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Issue: Four Color #1018
Publication Date: May 1959
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Issues: #1018 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Rio Bravo
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell A Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/07/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "RIO BRAVO, No. 1018". Code number is RIO BRAVO O.S. #1018-596. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo".

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "May-July 1959" cover date.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Rio Bravo

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sheriff John Chance (photo of John Wayne); Dude [Borachón] (photo of Dean Martin); Colorado Ryan (photo of Ricky Nelson)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover photo has the background cropped out.
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Preview

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sheriff John Chance (photo of John Wayne); Dude [Borachón] (photo of Dean Martin); Colorado Ryan (photo of Ricky Nelson); Stumpy (photo of Walter Brennan)
Synopsis: Preview of story.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and partial cast and credits from the movie.
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Rio Bravo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sheriff John Chance; Dude [Borachón]; Colorado Ryan; Feathers; Stumpy; Pat Wheeler; Nathan Burdette; Joe Burdette
Synopsis: When Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for murder, the Burdette gang bottles up the town of Rio Bravo and refuses to let anyone in who will help the Sheriff. Chance has to depend on a crippled deputy and a disgraced drunk to hold out and keep Joe Burdette in jail until the Marshal arrives. Matters are complicated by the arrival of a young gunslinger and a mysterious woman on the last stagecoach.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1959 movie "Rio Bravo".
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Wanted! Wanted!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Facts about the use of "Wanted" posters in the old West.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Art by Ushler recognizeable by the hatbrim in sideview, and the bulging hair in the neck. Also face of wondering Sheriff.
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General Bulletin Tree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Facts about the posting of notices on trees in old West towns with no newspapers.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath. Art by Ushler recognizeable by face in sideview with the bulging hair in the neck. Also face of wondering man in green.

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