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Issue Details

Issue #283
Published July 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's KING of the ROYAL MOUNTED, No. 283." Code number is K.O.S. #283-507. Copyright 1942 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Copyright 1950 by Stephen Slesinger.

Cover Details

Characters Sergeant King
Pencils Jim Gary (signed)
Inks Jim Gary (signed)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "The Mountie is the most diversified law enforcement officer in the world."

Synopsis Facts about the Mounties.
Genre fact
Pencils Jim Gary (signed)
Inks Jim Gary (signed)
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.

50 page King of the Royal Mounted story "Nitro the Bank Robber / The Found Money"

Characters Sergeant King; Aurora; Nitro; Shad; Ivy
Synopsis King flies to Plain City, where "Nitro" has sent "invitations" to the police and others to attend the robbery of the First National Bank. The robber shows up right on time and threatens to detonate a container of nitroglycerin if he isn't given $50,000. He takes King as hostage to gain passage to the mountains, where he leaves King without his gun or boots. After he makes his way back to town, King is again confronted by Nitro, who plans to repeat the robbery in 24 hours. King and his companion, a girl named Aurora, find out Nitro's real identity, but Nitro forces the pair into King's single engine police plane and orders King to fly him to the coast. King overcomes Nitro, but on the way back Nitro dumps the stolen money out of the plane. King must go on horseback into a wilderness area, where he finds that the stolen money has been found (and spent) by a poor backwoods family.
Genre detective; adventure
Script Jim Gary
Pencils Jim Gary
Inks Jim Gary
Notes Two plots that segue from one to the other. Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Reprinted from King of the Royal Mounted (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1942