Credits
Colorist(s):
?
Letterer(s):
?
Subject Matter
Genres:
non-fiction, western
Feature(s):
Saddle Justice
Character(s):
Tom (railroad engineer); unnamed telegraph operator; Carl Dornson (telegraph operator); Sheriff's posse; Robert Ford (cameo); Fred Bader (surveyor, death); Carl Harper (irrigation engineer, death); Jessie (sic) James (villain, death); the James Gang [Frank James; Hank Catell (death); John Liddle (death)] (villains); Charlie (villain, death); Charlie's partner (villain, death)
Synopsis:
The James Gang had a remarkable career of robberies and killings, but the search for the treasure loot of the gang collided with the legend of the curse that hovered over that treasure and those who sought it out. Including the $37,000 in gold taken from a train and buried near a dead tree that was later struck by lightning and the gang was unable to locate its hiding area again. Various people later to discover the gold all met with death, leaving the treasure undiscovered to this date.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
8
Notes:
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
It's obvious that Feldstein misspelled the first name of James (should be Jesse).
Much of story told in flashback to July of 1875.
Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names. In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.
Thommy Burns, in the Fantagraphics book, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories" (October 2019), states that it is impossible to determine who penciled and who inked this story. Art credits revised to reflect both men as possible penciler and/or inker.
Feldstein fictionalized some of the names in this story.
Detail
EC
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Notes:
Gunfighter #10 published August 1949
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