Issue | #1192 |
Published | June-August 1961 |
Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "RICKY NELSON, No. 1192." Code number is RICKY N. O/S #1192-615. Copyright 1961 by Ozzie Nelson. |
Characters | Ricky Nelson (photo) |
Genre | celebrity; adventure |
Pencils | ? (background); ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (background); ? (photo) |
Colors | ? (background); ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Indicia title is "RICKY NELSON, No. 1192." Code number is RICKY N. O/S #1192-615. Copyright 1961 by Ozzie Nelson. |
Characters | Ricky Nelson |
Synopsis | A pro football player rips up a stool at a soda fountain in order to sit at a table with Ricky and his girl. |
Genre | celebrity; teen |
Pencils | Russ Manning |
Inks | Russ Manning |
Notes | Inside front cover; color. Some copies may have photos of Ricky Nelson instead (need verification.) |
Characters | Ricky Nelson; Ozzie Nelson; Harriet Nelson; David Nelson; Bruce Brown |
Synopsis | Ricky and his friend Bruce win a trip to Hong Kong by entering an airline's contest. The pair get into trouble when they buy a vase in a store in Hong Kong. That particular vase wasn't supposed to be for sale, and after failing to find the vase in their hotel room, a criminal gang captures Ricky and Bruce during the "Festival of the Dragons" to get them to tell its location. |
Genre | celebrity; adventure |
Script | Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer |
Pencils | Russ Manning |
Inks | Russ Manning |
Notes | The name "Mannin" is on a sign on page 10. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
Characters | The Rifleman (cameo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Promo for 3000-prize Dell Comics Contest. First prize is a jet plane trip for four to Hollywood with visits to TV and movie studios and Disneyland. Entry is two cover logos from Dell comics. This promo comes after the second page of sequence 2, in the middle of the story. |
Characters | Yogi Bear (cameo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Centerfold. Promo for Dell Trading Post. Premiums available for clipped title strips from covers of Dell comics. This sequence comes after page 15 of Sequence 2, in the middle of the story. |
Characters | Ricky Nelson; David Nelson; Ozzie Nelson; Carol |
Synopsis | Ricky forgets that he's volunteered to help the charity carnival and has to break a date with Carol. He doesn't tell Carol the truth then has to pay the consequences when she shows up while he's manning the dunking booth. |
Genre | celebrity; teen |
Script | Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer |
Pencils | Russ Manning |
Inks | Russ Manning |
Notes | Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover; color. Ad for Kool-Aid soft drink mix featuring an "identify the animals" contest. Contest rules are on the bottom of the last interior page. |
Characters | Ricky Nelson |
Genre | celebrity |
Script | Eric Friewald; Robert Schaefer |
Pencils | Russ Manning |
Inks | Russ Manning |
Notes | Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 8. |
Characters | Twinkles; King Leonardo; Sanford; (parrot); (camel) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Back cover. Ad for Twinkles breakfast cereal featuring the characters from the Twinkles storybook packages. Premium is a 45 rpm record of Twinkles stories on one side and songs from the NBC cartoon series "King Leonardo and his Short Subjects" on the other for 25 cents and two box tops. This sequence replaces Sequence 7 in some copies. |