(December 1956)
Marvel,
1956 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
They Raid by Night!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- K-781
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Got him, boys!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Hutch Simpson; Tod
- Synopsis
- His gang break Hutch Simpson out of jail. They grab guns which are laying around the office and make their escape. Simpson decides that people work hard by day and sleep by night, so from now on they will only raid at night. The sub-zero temperatures are their undoing. The guns stolen from the sheriff have not yet had their pre-winter oiling, so the hammers are frozen.
- Reprints
The Thief
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- G-909
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sheriff Bob Finnerty carefully inspected his fly-rod...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Sheriff Bob Finnerty; Chard Fulton
- Reprints
-
from Two Gun Kid (Marvel, 1953 series) #28 (December 1955) [as "The Thief"] -
in Frontier Western (L. Miller & Son, 1956 series) #6 ([1956])
-
The Last Ride
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-794
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did we shake 'im, Pete?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- An outlaw robs the stage of an army payroll. Riding west, the robber imagines himself living in luxury, safe from the law, when a band of Indians attack. He is saved by a cavalry unit sent out to retrieve the payroll, but faces twenty years in jail.
- Reprints
Pearl-Handled Colts!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-749
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm taking you in, Calkins!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Sheriff; Calkins; Brad Calkins; Burrows
- Synopsis
- The new sheriff of Twin Forks outdraws one Calkins and puts him in jail for thirty days. Fearing reprisals by Calkins' brother Brad, the townsfolk plead with the sheriff to levy a fine and turn him loose. He refuses, but when it is learned that Brad Calkins and two other hard men are on their way, the sheriff meets them outside town, outdraws all of them and throws them in jail also.
- Reprints
- in Frontier Western (L. Miller & Son, 1956 series) #6 ([1956])
-
in Giant Gunsmoke Western (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #10 ([September 1961])
-
Ambush in Coyote County!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- K-783
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The gray dawn broke...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Hawk Potter; Ned Warbley; Deputy Tim Sherry
- Synopsis
- More by luck than design, aged deputy Tim Sherry manages to capture two gangs of outlaws and bring them to jail.
- Reprints
- in Frontier Western (L. Miller & Son, 1956 series) #6 ([1956])
- in Rawhide Western Library (Yaffa / Page, 1974 series) #2 ([December 1974])
-
The Man From Owlhoot City!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- K-782
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sheriff! Yuh got to do somthing!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- "The Man From Owlhoot City"; Jasper Hawkins
- Synopsis
- A town sheriff sends for "The Man From Owlhoot City", who had cleaned up another town single-handed. No one knows his name or anything about him beyond his reputation as the fastest gun in the west. All wait with eager anticipation, but the next stage to arrive brings no one but a 'dude' and a young woman. Local rough Jasper Hawkins shoves the 'dude' around, but he grabs a gun and claims he cannot stop firing. The gang ride off and he grabs a horse and follows, hanging on to the neck for dear life. Catching up, he subdues them with ease and brings them back to jail.
- Reprints
- in Frontier Western (L. Miller & Son, 1956 series) #6 ([1956])
- in Range War Westerns (Yaffa / Page, 1974 ? series) #3 ([December 1974])
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Ambush
-
1.
They Raid by Night!
-
2.
The Thief
-
3.
The Last Ride
-
4.
Pearl-Handled Colts!
-
5.
Ambush in Coyote County!
-
6.
The Man From Owlhoot City!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Ethan Hoddes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Dick Sabo
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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