With art by Godwin and scripts by Rod Reed, the first Rusty Riley daily appeared on January 26, 1948.

[2] The storyline follows the adventures of a redheaded orphan youth, Rusty Riley, who flees the orphanage with his faithful fox terrier, Flip.

In the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, he is hired as a stable boy by wealthy racehorse owner Mr.

[4] Dell Comics reprinted Rusty Riley stories in the comic-book series Four Color, in issues #418 (cover-dated Aug. 1952), #451 (Feb. 1953), #486 (Aug. 1953), and #554 (April 1954).

[citation needed] In Chile, it was published in weekly installments, composed of dailies arranged as comic book pages, translated as Pepe Rubio in the magazine El peneca, between 1957-58.