Dates
- Cover date
- June 1957
- On sale
- 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #820 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
script: Paul S. Newman, Dan Ullmanpencils: Bob Jenneyinks: Bob Jenneyletters: Ben Oda
Stories
- The Oklahoman · 32 pages
Dr. John Brighton settles in Cherokee Wells after his wife dies giving birth to his daughter. Five years later, big cattleman Cass Dobie is trying to run off the smaller ranchers and makes an enemy of the Doctor. Cass Dobie suspects there is oil on Indian Charlie Smith's property. He sends his brother Mel to take a sample for analysis, but Smith sees him and Mel tries to shoot him. Smith kills him with a knife and Cass Dobie vows revenge. Dr. Brighton has to keep Smith safe from Cass until the inquest.
- The First Oil Well · 1 pages
The drilling of the first oil well by Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania in 1859.
- The Land Rush · 1 pages
A description of the land rush in Oklahoma in 1889.
Reprinted in
The Oklahoman (1958)