Issue: #643
Published: September 1955, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
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
Notes: Indicia title is "WILD BILL ELLIOTT, No. 643." Code number is B.E. #18-559 (Apparently originally intended to be Wild Bill Elliott #18 before ending up as a Four Color.) Copyright 1955 by Stephen Slesinger. Continues from Wild Bill Elliott (Dell, 1950 series) #17 (April-June 1955).
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Facsimile of Distinguished Achievement Award given Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. by Newsdealers Post Number 1169, American Legion, on November 14, 1954. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (17 pages) |
Mystery of Furnace Valley |
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Bill comes to Mojave to meet an old sourdough friend, Furnace Valley Scotty, who owns a ghost town called Akali. He finds that the town is now the base of an borax-hauling operation owned by Mike Gorin, a former rustler, who claims he bought the town from Scotty. |
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Western-frontier |
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Wild Bill Elliott Stormy (horse) Furnace Valley Scotty |
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Peril at Sundown |
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Bill is serving as temporary sheriff at Sundown. Meanwhile, rancher Gil Carson has an unwelcome guest in outlaw Slip Gavin. Carson was part of a bank robbery with Gavin ten years ago, but has gone straight since. Gavin threatens to expose him unless Carson allows him and his gang to stay at his ranch. While at the ranch, Gavin comes up with a scheme to fleece the local ranchers by pretending to be boss of a survey crew for a new railroad. |
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Western-frontier |
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Wild Bill Elliott Stormy (horse) |
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Western Roundup |
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Letters: typeset |
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Western-frontier |
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