King of the Royal Mounted is a fictional series featuring the character Dave King, created by Stephen Slesinger in 1936. Slesinger licensed popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed the character as Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted. Corporal Dave King is a Canadian Mountie who always gets his man. King has appeared in newspaper strips, comics, Big Little Books and movies.
Zane Grey's son Romer and Slesinger collaborated on many of the stories, and the artwork was produced by Allen Dean, Charles Flanders and Jim Gary in Slesinger's New York studio.
King of the Royal Mounted started as a Sunday comic strip from King Features Syndicate in, 1935. The strip was initially drawn by the comics artist Allen Dean.
Between 1948 and 1952, King appeared in Four Color Comics (Dell's catch-all title) Jim Gary cover art. Beginning in 1952, King appeared under his own numbering with King of the Royal Mounted #8 (June, 1952) through #28 (March, 1958). King's final Dell comic book issue was Four Color #935 (April, 1958). Dell's King of the Royal Mounted #8-19 were drawn in the Jim Gary style. All of the non-reprint issues were written by Gaylord Du Bois.
Here are presented the first 28 of them
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Thank you for the King of the Royal Mounted I'm sure I'll enjoy them.
I did, good classic stuff.
Thanks, One of my favorites !!
You are quite welcome. ------------------------ Rick