Roy Rogers Comics
#5
Roy Rogers Comics #5
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In the badlands Slick shoots Nella's horse. Nella takes Roy for Slick. He wins her trust. Using the riddle on a deerskin poke Nella seeks Grandpa's gold cache to pay the mortgage. Roy finds her a horse with saddle. They find three robbers' graves and a note, then Pete who dispatched them, digging relics right where the gold is cached. The deputy and posse fire on Roy and company thinking they are the four bank-robbers. Nella wins their trust. Pete is revealed young; gives Nella the gold. Slick is caught red-handed with rustled cattle and the bank swag. Pete and Nella romance. Roy departs.
Cover Date
May 10, 1948
Pages
36
Cover Price
$0.10
Editor
Marcus Kwame Anderson
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Characters
Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Slick Pomeroy (a gunman / rustler / bank-robber who holds the mortgage on the Alvin Dean ranch); Nella Dean (rancher Bob Dean's daughter); a riderless horse wearing a blood-spattered kak; Peter Smythe (an archeologist hunting Indian relics); Deputy Sheriff Hazen and his posse