(April 1961)

Charlton, 1954 Series
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Volume
4
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bimonthly
On-sale Date
1960-12-27
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Charlton Comics Group
Brand
A Charlton Publication
Editing
Pat Masulli (executive editor)

Issue Notes

Older editions of The Overstreet Price Guide erroneously state that this issue features the origin of Gunmaster. On-sale date from Bestsellers Vol15 #10 December 1960.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Gunmaster / cover / 0.8 page (report information)

Pencils
Dick Giordano
Inks
Dick Giordano
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wyatt Earp (inset headshot); The Gunmaster [Clay Boone]; Wild Bill Hickok (inset headshot)

Coupons worth $3.37 (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.2 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Gunmaster / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Charles Nicholas
Inks
Vince Alascia
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
A-136
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Romeo Riva, The Chihuahua charlatan, came north across the Rio Grande...
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
The Gunmaster [Clay Boone]; Nancy; Romeo Riva (villain); Pablo (villain)

The Buffalo Men (Table of Contents: 3)

Wyatt Earp / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inks
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
A-135
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wyatt Earp; Barker John (villain, leader); Ned Bahm (villain); Bull McQueen (villain); Skelly (villain)

The Eliminator (Table of Contents: 4)

Wild Bill Hickok / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Bill Molno
Inks
Vince Alascia
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
5705
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wild Bill Hickok; Doc Sloan; Cliff; Sheriff Paley; Jeff Stubbs (villain); Pete Stubbs (villain)

Indexer Notes

Molno pencils per Nick Caputo, November 2015. Previous indexer credited Charles Nicholas.

Crossfire (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Bill Molno
Inks
Vince Alascia
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
6552
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Clamp Murdock (a Ranger); Tom (a Ranger, poses as Shep Devlin); Blacky Rivers (villain); Ticktock Charlie (villain)

Indexer Notes

Alascia inks per Nick Caputo, November 2015. Previous indexer credited Bill Molno.

His Lordship was a Cowboy (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 1.8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Bon (narrator); Cecil (Bon's brother, mentioned); Thomas (Bon's brother, mentioned); Antone; Mat; Nat; Pete; Sam; Dick (Bon's horse); Loco (a mustang)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.2 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Located at the bottom of the first page of the previous story.

The Brain Job (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inks
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
6750
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Deputy Charlie Webb; John Peters (bank watchman); unnamed bank president; Cal Eastland (villain); Puncher Haas (villain)

Indexer Notes

Mastroserio art per Nick Caputo, November 2015. Previous indexer credited Charles Nicholas on pencils and Sal Trapani on inks.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Gunmaster
  2. 1. Coupons worth $3.37
  3. 2. ["Romeo Riva, The Chihuahua charlatan, came north across the Rio Grande..."]
    Gunmaster
  4. 3. The Buffalo Men
    Wyatt Earp
  5. 4. The Eliminator
    Wild Bill Hickok
  6. 5. Crossfire
  7. 6. His Lordship was a Cowboy
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
  9. 8. The Brain Job
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • John Censullo
  • Steve Coates
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore