Can you tell us what's weird about the first page of this tale of Roy Rogers' horse,Trigger?
Roy, though he appears in the story, isn't named!
Only referred to as "Trigger's owner" or, later, "Trigger's master"!
Writer Gaylord DuBois and artist Harry Parkhurst treated this never-reprinted short feature from Dell's Roy Rogers Comics #26 (1950) more like an illustrated prose story than a normal comic tale, heavy on narrative captions with minimal word balloons!
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Besides a strip in Roy Rogers Comics, Trigger (like Gene Autry's Champion and the Lone Ranger's Silver) had his own comic, which ran 16 issues!
In his own title, Trigger was shown in his re-Roy Rogers days as a wild horse traveling with a herd, but the Roy Rogers Comics strip showed him in the care of "Uncle" Mike Hanford, who told stories of Roy and Trigger in the past tense.
Was Roy (the character, not the actual Western performer) retired or deceased at the time of the "Uncle Mike" atrips?
There's never a clear answer...
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