Four Color #1102 for Sale - First Appearance of Josh Randall - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)
Issue: #1102
Issue title: Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Publication date: May-July 1960
Key date: 1960-05-00
On-sale date: 1960-03-31
Indicia publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Josh Randall - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Payment Delayed	cover	1	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); colors: ? (photo); letters: typeset	Josh Randall First
1	Payment Delayed / Badman in Blue	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ?; ? (photo); inks: ?; ? (photo); letters: typeset	Josh Randall First
2	Payment Delayed	comic story	15	script: Gaylord Du Bois; pencils: Al Micale; inks: Al Micale	Josh Randall First
3	Bounty Hunters of the Sierra	text article	1	script: Gaylord Du Bois
4	Badman In Blue	comic story	16	script: Gaylord Du Bois; pencils: Al Micale; inks: Al Micale	Josh Randall First
5	The Man Hunt	comic story	1	script: Gaylord Du Bois; pencils: Al Micale; inks: Al Micale

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Before you buy

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Look for tanning at the page edges and transfer stains on the inside covers.
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Series context

‹ #11011102 of 1332#1103 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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