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Cover: Sam Savitt

Four Color #996

Jun 1959 · Dell · 0.10 USD
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“The Cowboy's Saddle Gun”

In "The Cowboy's Saddle Gun," a 1959 Four Color comic from Dell, the arrival of the ruthless Major Doone on a frontier ranch sets off a violent chain of events. When Doone's men threaten an old neighbor, Chuckwalla, and a showdown with the local outlaw Nevada ends in murder, the innocent Nevada is framed and forced to flee. Written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Al Micale, this tense Western unfolds with a trail of suspicion and danger, as Nevada races to clear his name. The cover, by Sam Savitt, captures the story’s gritty atmosphere.

writer Gaylord Du Bois · artist, inker Al Micale · cover Sam Savitt

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artist, inker Al Micale
cover pencils, inks Sam Savitt

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Major Doone buys a ranch and immediately works on expansion, by hook or crook. Nevada gets involved when Doone's crew threatens a neighbor, an old rancher named Chuckwalla. After Nevada works over the foreman in a fistfight, he and Chuckwalla are ambushed in town, with Chuckwalla being killed. Doone tries to frame Nevada for the killing, but Nevada escapes. He must elude a posse as he tries to find out Doone's real identity.

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