Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #8
Published July-September 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Cover: mixed media--color posed-for-comics shot of actress Gail Davis (as Annie Oakley), examing rifle bullet, painted desert/mountain scene in background. Some sequence page counts corrected per Martin Olsen, January 2009.

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Gail Davis [as Annie Oakley] (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Cover: mixed media--color posed-for-comics shot of actress Gail Davis (as Annie Oakley), examing rifle bullet, painted desert/mountain scene in background. Some sequence page counts corrected per Martin Olsen, January 2009.

1 page Famous Women of the West filler "Famous Women of the West--Frontier Angel"

Genre fact
Notes Inside front cover: illustrated fact filler short story.

14 page Annie Oakley story "The Ambushers"

Characters Annie Oakley; Tagg; Lofty Craig
Synopsis Annie, Tagg and deputy Lofty Craig find trouble when there's a sudden gold strike in their territory.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle

1 page text story "The Gunsight"

Notes "Filler; (one page illustrated fiction). All such filler material is copyrighted by Western Printing & Lithographing Co., and notice is shown. Most of such work however has fallen into public domain now."

6 page story "Trickery at Tyler Point"

Genre western
Pencils John Ushler
Inks John Ushler
Notes "Back-Up feature (comics story) Some evidence of Pete Alvarado contribution. Ushler and Alvarado were the first artists to draw the syndicated Roy Rogers newspaper comic strip, in 1949, as a team."

10 page Annie Oakley story "Double Error"

Synopsis Annie's rescuer turns out to be the thief she and her nephew and deputy have been chasing. A little detective work and her famous sharpshooting highlight this cowgirl's stories.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle

Half page text article "Dell Pledge to Parents"

Letters typeset

1 page filler "The Cowboy's Hat"

Genre fact
Notes Inside back cover: illustrated fact filler one page story, offers a concise history of this headgear.