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Issue Details

Issue #1287
Published February-April 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "MAN FROM WELLS FARGO, No. 1287." Code number is WELLS FARGO O.S. #1287-621. Copyright 1961 by Overland Productions, Inc. Based on the "Tales of Wells Fargo" TV series. Error: Jim Hardie's name is spelled Jim Hardy in the cover text.

Cover Details

Characters Dale Robertson [as Jim Hardie (photo)]
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "MAN FROM WELLS FARGO, No. 1287." Code number is WELLS FARGO O.S. #1287-621. Copyright 1961 by Overland Productions, Inc. Based on the "Tales of Wells Fargo" TV series. Error: Jim Hardie's name is spelled Jim Hardy in the cover text.

1 page Man from Wells Fargo foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Montezuma's Pay-Off / Money in the Coffin"

Characters Dale Robertson [as Jim Hardie (photo)]
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti; ? (photo)
Inks Alberto Giolitti; ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of the stories. Script submitted on June 8, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

15 page Man from Wells Fargo story "Montezuma's Payoff"

Characters Jim Hardie
Synopsis While tracking stage robber Chris Demaray, Hardie is captured by Demaray and a band of Ute Indians. Demaray leads Hardie to a forbidden area to try to find enough Aztec treasure to pay off Wells Fargo for the stage robberies.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Script submitted on May 29, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

2 page filler "Aztec Gold in Southern Utah"

Synopsis A treasure hunt for Aztec gold in Kanab, Utah, in the early 1920s.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Script submitted on June 8, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

15 page Man from Wells Fargo story "Money in the Coffin"

Characters Jim Hardie
Synopsis After two trains are robbed in the same general area, Hardie is assigned to guard a shipment of gold and silver that is due to pass through the same area.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Script submitted on May 26, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

1 page Man from Wells Fargo filler "Montezuma's Legendary Treasure"

Synopsis Legends of the hiding places of the gold of Aztec Emperor Montezuma.
Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on June 8, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Sequence has "Man from Wells Fargo" logo on it, but no characters appear.

1 page Man from Wells Fargo filler "Famous Train Robberies"

Synopsis An account of the robbery of a Union Pacific train in 1889.
Genre fact; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Back cover. Script submitted on June 8, 1961, under the title "Famous Train Robberies - Wilcox Way." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Sequence has "Man from Wells Fargo" logo on it, but no characters appear.