Issue: #472
Published: June 1953, 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. 472." (Large blank spot after "472" in indicia may mean title was changed.) Code number is B.E.O.S. #472-536. Copyright 1953 by Stephen Slesinger. One of two Wild Bill Elliott Four Colors that interrupt his regular numbered series. This issue follows Wild Bill Elliott (Dell, 1950 series) #10 (September-November 1952) and could be considered issue #11.
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| Text Article (1 page) |
Western Stock Saddle |
| Synopsis: |
Facts about the western stock saddle. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Western-frontier |
| Comic Story (16 pages) |
Wild Bill Elliott and the River Slaughter |
| Synopsis: |
Rustlers are stealing cattle, slaughtering them, and selling the meat to a crooked distributer. Bill, with the help of Larry Lane of the Cattlemen's Association and Zeb Waters, an old friend who runs a ferry, has to find the location of the illegal slaughterhouse somewhere along the river. |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Wild Bill Elliott Stormy Night (horse) |
| Comic Story (16 pages) |
Wild Bill Elliott and the Robber Roundup |
| Synopsis: |
Bill comes across a stage robbery in progress and one of the robbers is captured. After arriving in Twin Peaks with the captive, Bill learns that there have been four other holdups, all involving gold shipments from the Antler Mining and Smelting Company. |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Wild Bill Elliott Stormy Night (horse) |
| Text Article (1 page) |
Black Kettle |
| Synopsis: |
Story of Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, whose camp was attacked in the Sand Creek Massacre. |
| Genre: |
Biography Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Black Kettle |
| Illustration (1 page) |
Bill washing his hands |
| Synopsis: |
Posed photo of Bill washing his hands in an old-fashioned washbowl. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photo) | Inks: ? (photo) | Colours: ? (photo) |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Wild Bill Elliott (photo) |
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