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Issue Details

Issue #1102
Published May-July 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1102. Code number is WANT. D. or A. O.S. #1102-605. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Cover logo and story logos have exclamation point, indicia does not. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1102. Code number is WANT. D. or A. O.S. #1102-605. Copyright 1960 by Four Star-Malcom. Cover logo and story logos have exclamation point, indicia does not. Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series.

1 page Wanted: Dead or Alive! foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Payment Delayed / Badman in Blue"

Characters Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen, photo)
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre western
Pencils ?; ? (photo)
Inks ?; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo plus two-panel previews of each story.

15 page Wanted: Dead Or Alive! story "Payment Delayed"

Characters Josh Randall; Andrew "Croak" Bascom
Synopsis A bank robber disappears after robbing a bank of $9,000 and killing the cashier and bank president. A year later, Josh Randall tries to pick up his trail.
Genre western
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale

1 page text article "Bounty Hunters of the Sierra"

Synopsis History of the use of bounty hunters by the Mexican government against the Apache and Comanche Indians in the Sierra Madres from the 1830s to the 1870s.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text with three illustrations.

16 page Wanted: Dead Or Alive! story "Badman In Blue"

Characters Josh Randall; Jason Fleager
Synopsis Josh Randall trails a wanted killer and finds him riding with the cavalry, disguised as a trooper.
Genre western
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

1 page Wanted: Dead Or Alive! story "The Man Hunt"

Synopsis The process of how the bounty system developed.
Genre western
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale
Notes inside back cover; black and white. The "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" logo is at the top of the page, but no characters appear.

1 page Kraft Caramels advertisement "This is a Kangarooseal"

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Part of a series of "hybrid animals" ads from Kraft Caramels candy.