Best of the West
#12
((April) 2000)
AC,
1998 Series
- Price
- 5.95 USD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- AC Comics
- Brand
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AC Comics [straight, star in A]
- Editing
- Bill Black
[Durango Kid Movie Still]
Durango Kid / illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Durango Kid (photo of Charles Starrett); Raider (horse, photo); Smiley Burnette (photo)
- Synopsis
- Durango Kid and Smiley Burnett, on horseback, along with two other mounted cowboys.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Movie still.
Eyes of the Hypnotist
Latigo Kid / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Black
- Pencils
- Bill Black (signed as
BILL BLACK [stacked, underscore]) - Inks
- Bill Black (signed as BILL BLACK [stacked, underscore])
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He was a gambler and con man...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Demon; The Latigo Kid; Duke Cartee (also in flashback, death); Sheriff Porter (death); Doc Marvel; Two Knives; Kantos (death in flashback); Mary Lord
- Synopsis
- Outlaw Duke Cartee's hypnotic eyes freeze his opponents and give him time to shoot them. He takes over the town of San Clavel before Latigo learns the secret of Cartee's power and returns with Two Knives to gain revenge over the killer.
- Reprints
-
from The Shade Special (AC, 1984 series) #1 (Fall 1984)
-
- Keywords
- bullwhip; hypnotism; Indians; murder; shaman; snakes
They Dig by Night
Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider] / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero; western-frontier
- Characters
- Haunted Horseman; Spectre (horse); Sheriff Bannon; Sam Spanner
- Reprints
- from Tim Holt (Magazine Enterprises, 1948 series) #19 (August-September 1950)
-
Indexer Notes
Ghost Rider's name relettered as Haunted Horseman.
Passage to Poison Valley
Durango Kid / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Durango Kid; Muley
- Reprints
- from Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #23 (June-July 1953)
-
The Return of the Gaucho Kid
Calamity Kate / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Calamity Kate [Patricia Layne]; Gaucho Kid
- Reprints
- from The Westerner Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1948 series) #31 (December 1950)
-
Ruthless Railroad Double-Cross
Black Diamond / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Black Diamond; Bumper
- Reprints
- from Black Diamond Western (Lev Gleason, 1949 series) #29 (December 1951)
-
The Red Wheel
Red Mask / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Redmask; Black Phantom (host)
- Reprints
- from Red Mask (Magazine Enterprises, 1954 series) #50 (July-August 1955)
-
[AC Westerns]
AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Promo for ordering back issues of AC Western comics by mail from AC Comics Box 521216, Longwood FL 32752.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Latigo Kid; Haunted Horseman; Red Mask; Black Diamond; Durango Kid -
1.
[Durango Kid Movie Still]
Durango Kid -
2.
Eyes of the Hypnotist
Latigo Kid -
3.
They Dig by Night
Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider] -
4.
Passage to Poison Valley
Durango Kid -
5.
The Return of the Gaucho Kid
Calamity Kate -
6.
Ruthless Railroad Double-Cross
Black Diamond -
7.
The Red Wheel
Red Mask -
8.
[AC Westerns]
AC Comics -
9.
Western Movie Hero
AC Comics
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Darrel McCann
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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