(December 1950)
Orbit-Wanted,
1948 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Patches Publications Inc.
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Wild Bill Pecos / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Make every bullet count, Calamity Kate!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wild Bill Pecos; Calamity Kate
- Reprints
in 
Ghost Town Raiders!
Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 10.67 pages
- Script
- Bill Woolfolk
- Pencils
- Mort Lawrence (signed); Syd Shores (see notes)
- Inks
- Mort Lawrence ?; Syd Shores ? (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pardner)
Indexer Notes
Writer credits this issue from Martin O'Hearn. Shores art assist on page 7 and parts of page 9 and 10. Info per Nick Caputo, November 2015.
Combats the Killin' Cappers
Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 8.67 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent
- Synopsis
- The hillbilly Cappers have a feud with the Nugents, and now they are looking for the last of the Nugents.
Indexer Notes
The artwork is similar to Shores' credited stories in Black Rider, accurate horses, long figures and faces, and some hats with round dents in the hat looking like two spooky eyes.
Dressed to Kill!
Nuggets Nugent / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mort Lawrence (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ed Hamilton
- Genre
- western-frontier
The Return of the Gaucho Kid
Calamity Kate / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Patricia Layne (lovely owner of the Bar M ranch) [Calamity Kate]; The Gaucho Kid (romantic desperado)
- Reprints
-
in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #12 ((April) 2000)
-
Indexer Notes
Artist ID from reprint.
El Conquistador!
Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Diego del Casto Sabrero [El Conquistador]
Indexer Notes
Penciller credit from the French fan magazine Back Up #14, as submitted by Stephane Petit, via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. Klein inks per Nick Caputo, November 2015.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Make every bullet count, Calamity Kate!"]
Wild Bill Pecos -
1.
Ghost Town Raiders!
Wild Bill Pecos -
2.
The Desert Ship
-
3.
Combats the Killin' Cappers
Wild Bill Pecos -
4.
Dressed to Kill!
Nuggets Nugent -
5.
The Six-Shooter Spoke Last
-
6.
Big Foot Wallace
-
7.
The Return of the Gaucho Kid
Calamity Kate -
8.
[no title indexed]
Wild Bill Pecos -
9.
El Conquistador!
Wild Bill Pecos
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Nick Caputo
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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