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Issue Details

Issue #1076
Published February-April 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1076". Code number is THE REBLE.O.S. #1076-602. ("Rebel" is misspelled in the code number.) Cover is subtitled "Johnny Yuma's Journal". Copyright 1960 by The Rebel Company. First of four The Rebel Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Nick Adams (as Johnny Yuma [The Rebel], photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE REBEL, No. 1076". Code number is THE REBLE.O.S. #1076-602. ("Rebel" is misspelled in the code number.) Cover is subtitled "Johnny Yuma's Journal". Copyright 1960 by The Rebel Company. First of four The Rebel Four Colors. Based on "The Rebel" TV series.

1 page The Rebel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Previews"

Characters Johnny Yuma [The Rebel]
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page The Rebel story "Bad Medicine"

Characters Johnny Yuma [The Rebel] (intro)
Synopsis In the summer of 1865, Confederate war veteran Johnny Yuma returns to his small western town. He finds his father, the sheriff, has been killed and the murderers are now running the town. After taking his father's sawed-off shotgun, Yuma concocts a plan that results in the killing of the men who shot his father. Yuma then leaves town, because staying would remind him of his father. He then meets up with the proprietor of a traveling medicine show, who later is framed as a killer by a gang of hoodlums.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Script submitted on August 18, 1959, under the title "Johnny Yuma Fights Back." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page The Rebel story "Buzzard Bait"

Characters Johnny Yuma [The Rebel]
Synopsis After saving the life of an Apache strung up to die as "buzzard bait," Yuma finds the camp of four hard-bitten gold miners whose mules have been killed by Apaches. The miners put Yuma and his his horse to work crushing ore, but the Apaches return to finish their attack.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on August 27, 1959, under the title "Buzzard Bait." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page The Rebel filler "Hoodlums Went West"

Synopsis General overview of the problems old west towns had because they attracted drifters and hoodlums.
Genre western; fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on September 10, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

1 page Frisky Fudgie; Kraft Fudgies advertisement "Five Seconds to Play!"

Characters Friskie Fudgie
Synopsis Friskie Fudgie helps Billy make a long shot to win the basketball game.
Genre sports
Notes Back cover, color. Ad in comic form for Kraft Fudgies candy. Part of Frisky Fudgie series.