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Issue Details

Issue #1096
Published May-July 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE TEXAN, No. 1096." Code number is THE TEXAN #1096-605. Copyright 1960 by Rorvic Productions, Inc. and Desilu Productions, Inc. Second and final The Texan Four Color. Based on the 1958-60 CBS TV series "The Texan."

Cover Details - "The Texan"

Characters Rory Calhoun (as Bill Longley)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE TEXAN, No. 1096." Code number is THE TEXAN #1096-605. Copyright 1960 by Rorvic Productions, Inc. and Desilu Productions, Inc. Second and final The Texan Four Color. Based on the 1958-60 CBS TV series "The Texan."

1 page [The Texan] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Ambush Alibi"

Characters Rory Calhoun (as Bill Longley)
Synopsis Preview of first story in issue.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle ?; ? (photo)
Inks Dan Spiegle ?; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and illustration with typeset text.

17 page The Texan story "Ambush Alibi"

Characters Bill Longley
Synopsis Whit and Zane Reagan save Bill Longley's life after a trail accident. Longley finds the two are on the run after being accused of murder when they shot back in self-defense in an ambush. Longley knows the father of the accuser, B.J. Weston, from his service in the Civil War, and goes to talk with him to find out the truth.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

15 page The Texan story "Gunfight at Fury Falls"

Characters Bill Longley
Synopsis Gunman Mark Danson is on his way to Fury Falls to have a shootout with the sheriff for jailing his brother. The townspeople ask Bill Longley for help because the sheriff's vision is failing and he is too proud to step down or ask for help.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page [The Texan] story "Artist in Disguise"

Characters Bill Longley
Synopsis Bill Longley recognizes the new guest at the hotel as an outlaw after seeing a boy draw a beard on a wanted poster.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page American Geographical Society advertisement Imagine "touring" Russia for only 10ยข

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for "guidebook album" on Russia. Part of "Around the World" program by American Geographical Society, Garden City, N.Y.