(October 1951)

Orbit-Wanted, 1948 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Patches Publications Inc.
Editing
?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Wild Bill Pecos; Lobo / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Syd Shores (signed)
Inks
Syd Shores ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Stay back, Lobo! I'll handle these Injuns myself!
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent; Lobo the Wolf Boy

Wild Bill Pecos Meets the Undertaker! (Table of Contents: 1)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
John Buscema ?
Colors
?
Letters
Ed Hamilton

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his pard); Mike Hantland [The Undertaker] (villain)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Penciller credit from the French fan magazine Back Up #14, as submitted by Stephane Petit, via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. Possible Buscema inks per Nick Caputo, June 2015.

Hostage for Death! (Table of Contents: 2)

Lobo the Wolf Boy / comic story / 5.5 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Finger
Pencils
Mort Lawrence
Inks
Mort Lawrence ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lobo; Black Jacques (villain)
Synopsis
Three white men are out to get a valuable totem pole from Lobo's tribe.

Indexer Notes

The face of Lobo with narrow nose on last page is similar to faces in Lawrence's signed story in #26.

Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Wild Bill Pecos / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

ad for the next issue

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Wild Bill Pecos Pow Wow / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Wild Bill Pecos]
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

The Swirling Peril! (Table of Contents: 5)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his pard)
Synopsis
Looters prey upon Tombestone City under cover of a blinding sandstorm.

Indexer Notes

Art similar to Shores's signed stories in this series.

The Greatest Hero or Hair-o of the West? (Table of Contents: 6)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his pard)
Synopsis
Nuggets is mistaken for the lost husband of an old hillbilly maid.

Indexer Notes

Horses point to Shores as artist. Very probably his work.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Stay back, Lobo! I'll handle these Injuns myself!"]
    Wild Bill Pecos; Lobo
  2. 1. Wild Bill Pecos Meets the Undertaker!
    Wild Bill Pecos
  3. 2. Hostage for Death!
    Lobo the Wolf Boy
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Wild Bill Pecos
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Wild Bill Pecos Pow Wow
  6. 5. The Swirling Peril!
    Wild Bill Pecos
  7. 6. The Greatest Hero or Hair-o of the West?
    Wild Bill Pecos
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