Dell Comics ran very few ads inside their books...
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| From Four Color #1125, art by Gil Kane and Russ Heath |
...instead running one or two-page illustrated features and text pages, usually on subjects related to the main story, written and illustrated by the same creators.
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| From Four Color #1125, art by Gil Kane and Russ Heath |
Since stagecoach travel was a major plot point in the Laramie stories in Four Color #1125 (1960), the features were about...stagecoaches!
The next Laramie issue, #1223, had tales about criminals using a ghost town for a hideout and a crooked Indian Agent.
Guess what the features were about?
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| From Four Color #1223, art by Gil Kane |
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| From Four Color #1223, art by Gil Kane |
The next issue, #1284, ran stories about the series characters being isolated by a snowstorm and a Native American who was considered a traitor by other Indians because he worked with settlers.
The feature pages were about...
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| From Four Color #1284, art by Gil Kane |
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| From Four Color #1284, art by Gil Kane |
Who says comics ain't educational?
