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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published [June 1950]
Cover Price .10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title for this issue is "Lassie." Publication date inferred from code number. The code number is Lassie O.S. #282-506, which would indicate that this book was planned to be Four Color #282. There is also an excess of blank space in the indicia between the title "LASSIE" and "Published by Dell Publishing Co." into which the "No. 1" is dropped. That extra space was presumably to accomodate the larger Four Color issue number.

Cover Details

Characters Lassie
Genre animal
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)

1 page Lassie illustration

Characters Lassie
Genre animal
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Notes Inside front cover

48 page Lassie story "Lassie Finds a Friend"

Characters Lassie; Rocky Langford; Mr. Pettibone; Matilda Benway; Jeb Ordway; Cap'n Caleb; Ben; Uncle Norrie; Commando; Mr. Lawrence; Gerry Lawrence; Mr. Warner
Synopsis Rocky runs away from the orphanage, meets Lassie and, later, Ben, and secures a job with coffee planter Mr. Lawrence.
Genre animal
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Mo Gollub ?
Inks Mo Gollub ?
Notes Writer credit suggested by Jerry Bails's Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999 (www.bailsprojects.com). The Who's Who also notes that Mo Gollub was penciler and inker of the Lassie feature in 1950, hence the art ID.

1 page Lassie illustration

Characters Lassie
Genre animal
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Notes Inside back cover

1 page Lassie illustration

Characters Lassie
Genre animal
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
Notes Back cover