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Issue Details

Issue #1097
Published May-July 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "RAWHIDE, No. 1097." Code number is RAWHIDE O.S. #1097-605. Copyright 1960 by Columbia Broadcasting System. Second of six Rawhide Four Colors. Based on the CBS TV series "Rawhide."

Cover Details - "Rawhide"

Characters Eric Fleming [as Gil Favor] (photo); Clint Eastwood [as Rowdy Yates] (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "RAWHIDE, No. 1097." Code number is RAWHIDE O.S. #1097-605. Copyright 1960 by Columbia Broadcasting System. Second of six Rawhide Four Colors. Based on the CBS TV series "Rawhide."

1 page Rawhide foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Outlaw Trail"

Characters Eric Fleming [as Gil Favor] (photo); Clint Eastwood [as Rowdy Yates] (photo)
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils Russ Manning; ? (photos)
Inks Russ Manning; ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Two small photos plus one panel for each story with text underneath.

20 page Rawhide story "The Outlaw Trail"

Characters Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates; Wishbone
Synopsis Two young boys try to join the trail herd after they stumble across the hideout of Cram Kincaid and his outlaw gang. After Kincaid tries to kidnap the boys from the camp, Favor and Yates leave to take the two boys back home. On the way they are ambushed by members of the gang, who are in turn run off by the Sheriff and the boys' fathers who have been searching for them. The boys then lead the men to the outlaws' hideout.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

12 page Rawhide story "Wishbone's Luck"

Characters Gil Favor; Rowdy Yates, Wishbone
Synopsis After taking the chuck wagon to get supplies for the trail crew, Wishbone is stopped by two outlaws who take him and the supplies to their hideout. There they make Wishbone tend to the bullet wound of their partner and make them supper. Favor and Yates find the trail and arrive on the scene just as the outlaws and Wishbone flee from the cabin that Wishbone has intentionally set on fire with his cooking.
Genre western
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Sure Crossing"

Characters Col. Andy Snyder (Confederate Army)
Synopsis Facts about Col. Andy Snyder of the Confederate Army, a trail boss who invented a novel method of getting cattle herds to cross rivers.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Russ Manning
Inks Russ Manning
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. See Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #41 (sequence 24).

1 page Frisky Fudgie; Kraft Fudgies advertisement "Home Run Hero"

Characters Frisky Fudgie
Synopsis Frisky Fudgie helps Jimmy hit a grand slam home run to win the big baseball game.
Genre sports; children
Notes Back cover. Ad in comic form for Kraft Fudgies candy. Part of "Frisky Fudgie" series.