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Issue Details

Issue #856
Published November 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BUFFALO BILL, JR., No. 856." Code number is B.BILL.JR. O.S. #856-5711. Copyright 1957 by Flying A Productions, Inc. Based on the "Buffalo Bill Jr." TV series. Continues as Buffalo Bill Jr. (Dell, 1958 series) #7 (February-April 1958)

Cover Details

Characters Buffalo Bill Jr. (as played by Dickie Jones, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page Buffalo Bill Jr. foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "A Bronc Named Gunboat"

Characters Buffalo Bill Jr.; Calamity Jane
Synopsis Preview of the first story in the issue. (Note that the title does not exactly match that of the interior story.)
Genre western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

14 page Buffalo Bill Jr. story "A Bronc Called Gunboat"

Characters Buffalo Bill Jr.; Judge Wiley; Calamity Jane
Synopsis Buffalo Bill Jr. tries to ride a dangerous mustang to get money to buy the Judge a birthday present, but fails. After an outlaw takes Bill's horse, Bill again tries to ride the killer horse.
Genre western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky

1 page text story "The Feud"

Characters Jed Wayne; Pete Logan; Jim Colt
Synopsis Sheriff Jim Colt tries to make two feuding cattlemen share access to a waterhole.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with 1/4 page illustration.

4 page The Buffalo Hunter story "The Big Stampede"

Characters Sandy Hill; Wise Knife
Synopsis Sandy Hill and Wise Knife survive a buffalo stampede and follow the herd to kill enough buffalo to settle a debt.
Genre western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky

13 page Buffalo Bill Jr. story "Pawnee Stampede"

Characters Buffalo Bill Jr.; Judge Wiley; Calamity Jane; Rev. Palmer
Synopsis An Indian agent extorts hides from the Pawnee in order to keep the government from opening the land to homesteaders. The townspeople get enough signatures on a petition to open the land, but the Indian agent plans on dynamiting a pass in order to claim the best land for himself and his gang.
Genre western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky

1 page filler "Breaking a Bronc"

Synopsis The process of breaking a wild horse to a saddle.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky ?
Letters typesset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text above.

1 page filler "Settling the West"

Characters Abraham Lincoln (cameo)
Synopsis History of land claims in the Old West.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with typeset text above. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."