Among the various genres for which he wrote comic book scripts, most were of the outdoor adventure variety, particularly Westerns, including
Red Ryder Comics (for which he wrote "Little Beaver" text pages,
The Fighting Yanks WWII feature, and, particularly, the "Kyotee Kids" Western series, 31 scripts, the first being sent to his editor 12/23/1946, the last being sent 3/19/1949, that ran from about issue #43 ending with #72; Du Bois had previously been one of the ghostwriters for the
Red Ryder newspaper comic strip drawn by
Fred Harman. Before its format change to all-new Red Ryder material,
Red Ryder Comics featured
Red Ryder newspaper strip reprints. He also wrote stories for
Gene Autry Comics,
Roy Rogers Comics (1944–1956, 1959–1960, all of the first run in the
Four Color Comics series, and, under its own numbering,
Roy Rogers Comics #1 through about #108, and approximately #134 through #143),
Zane Grey's
King of the Royal Mounted (Du Bois had previously been one of the ghost-writers for the
King of the Royal Mounted newspaper comic strip drawn by illustrator
Jim Gary),
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon,
Bat Masterson (adapting
Bat Masterson (TV series)),
Tales of Wells Fargo /
Man from Wells Fargo,
Wanted: Dead or Alive,
The Rebel,
Bonanza and
Hotel de Paree Sundance. Gaylord Du Bois also wrote comic book script adaptations of Zane Grey's western novels for the Dell Four Color Series' "Zane Grey's" issues, which achieved its own numbering with #27 as "Zane Grey's Stories of the West." Du Bois wrote the first issue. In total, he wrote 31 of the series' 39 issues. Du Bois excelled writing animals: he wrote the entire run of ''The Lone Ranger's Famous Horse Hi-Yo Silver
, the entire run of National Velvet under both the Dell and Gold Key imprints, the first 9 issues of Roy Rogers' Trigger
, sixty issues of Lassie, plus nine Lassie issues of March of Comics'', the last issue of Gene Autry's Champion, as well as the animal adventure back-up features
Bullet the dog,
Lotor the raccoon,
Yukon King the dog,
Grey Wolf,
Blaze the horse,
et al.. He also adapted
Owd Bob for
Four Color Comics #729. Du Bois created several American Indian features: "
Young Hawk" ran as a back-up feature in Dell's
The Lone Ranger #11-#145 (1949–1962). It had first begun in
The Funnies, and then appeared in
New Funnies, both in 1942. Since Du Bois's pre-1943 Account Books were lost in a house fire, we can only guess that he created Young Hawk.
Turok, Son of Stone was created by Du Bois, originally as a Young Hawk one-shot, but Young Hawk and Little Buck were renamed to be Turok and Andar. (Du Bois wrote the first 8 issues.) He also created the American Indian feature
The Chief, the first issue of which debuted in
Four Color #290, August, 1950. It assumed its own numbering with #2, April, 1951. The title changed to
Indian Chief with #3, August, 1951. Gaylord Du Bois wrote all or nearly all the stories for the first four issues. (His stock of remaining scripts were used in at least three later issues (#12,13, and one other), but they mostly appeared in "Indian Chief" issues of
March of Comics.) In
Hi-Yo Silver, the recurring human character is Keenay, an American Indian. Du Bois's early comic-book -writing career included many cartoon characters, including
Raggedy Ann,
Andy Panda,
Our Gang,
Tom and Jerry and
Uncle Wiggily. Additionally he wrote scripts for
Dell Junior Treasury (2,3,4,5,6,8),
Santa Claus Funnies,
Frosty the Snowman, ''
Walt Scott's Little People, The Littlest Snowman, Jungle Jim, Space Family Robinson (which spawned Lost in Space TV show) (Gaylord Du Bois became the sole writer of Space Family Robinson'' once he began chronicling the Robinsons' adventures with
Peril on Planet Four in issue #8. He had already begun the
Captain Venture second feature beginning with
Situation Survival in issue #6.) Du Bois also chronicled the adventures of his own creations, e.g.
Turok, Son of Stone,
Brothers of the Spear, and
Jungle Twins. Gaylord Du Bois wrote script adaptations to comic book form of motion pictures, for the Dell
Four Color Series "Movie Classics" issues. His movie adaptations included:
Robin Hood (Disney-Movie) (Four Color #413, 1952),
Quentin Durward (Four Color #672, 1956),
The Animal World (Four Color #713, 1956),
Around the World in Eighty Days (Four Color #784, 1957),
The Story of Mankind (Four Color #851, 1958),
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Four Color #944, 1958),
Last Train from Gun Hill (Four Color #1012, 1959),
The Horse Soldiers (Four Color #1048, 1959),
Solomon and Sheba (Four Color #1070, 1959),
Spartacus (Four Color #1139, 1960),
The Story of Ruth (Four Color #1144, 1960),
North to Alaska (Four Color #1155, 1960),
Master of the World (Four Color #1157, 1961),
Dondi (Four Color #1176, 1962),
Pepe (Four Color #1194, 1961); and
Lord Jim (Gold Key #10156-509, 1965). Additionally, he wrote adaptations to comic book form of the TV series
Marlin Perkins'
Zoo Parade, and
Lowell Thomas'
High Adventure. He also wrote many
one-shot comics, including the
Dell Giant comics
Abraham Lincoln, Moses and the Ten Commandments, and The Treasury of Dogs that won him the
Thomas Alva Edison Award in 1956. A devout
Christian, Du Bois co-authored
Biblical Cartoons from Daily Life! with Phil Saint in 1981. Du Bois came out of retirement to co-create and write the Christian comic character Bukki in
Aida-Zee #1, published in 1990, and in
Christian Comics & Games Magazine #0 in 1995, both by
The Nate Butler Studio. The latter magazine was noted for containing
"the last completed comic-book script of Gaylord DuBois, one of the most prolific comics writers of all time." ==Books==