Best of the West #17

([January] 2001)

[Durango Kid Movie Still] (Table of Contents: 1)

Durango Kid / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Characters

Durango Kid (photo of Charles Starrett)

Synopsis

The Durango Kid has the drop on two cowboys with raised hands.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Movie still with no text.

Three Famous Badmen (Table of Contents: 2)

Red Mask / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Frank Bolle (signed)

Inks

Frank Bolle (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Redmask; Billy the Kid (impostor); Jesse James (impostor); Sam Bass (impostor); Black Phantom (cameo)

Reprints

• from Red Mask (Magazine Enterprises, 1954 series) #48 (March-April 1955)

Indexer Notes

Red Mask is two words in the logo, but one word in all references in the story.

Challenge of the Crusher (Table of Contents: 3)

The Durango Kid / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Muley

Reprints

• from Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #33 (December 1954)

The Murder Mine! (Table of Contents: 4)

The Lone Rider / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ken Battefield

Inks

Ken Battefield

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

The Lone Rider; Bright Feather; Seth Morse; Clay Worthing; Joe Bax

Reprints

• from The Lone Rider (Farrell, 1951 series) #22 (October-November 1954) [retitled; black and white]
• in Best of the West Roundup (AC, 2005 series) #2 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Original title was "Death on the Desert."

Gold Fever! (Table of Contents: 5)

Black Diamond / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Myron Fass (signed)

Pencils

Myron Fass (signed)

Inks

Myron Fass (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Black Diamond; Bumper; Webb Raymond; Morton Blaine

Reprints

• from Black Diamond Western (Lev Gleason, 1949 series) #56 (June-July 1955)

Shanghaied! (Table of Contents: 6)

Lash LaRue / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Morisi

Inks

Pete Morisi

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Lash Larue

Synopsis

In San Francisco, Lash gets shanghaied on a cattle boat.

Reprints

• in Best of the West Roundup (AC, 2005 series) #2 (2006)
• from ?

The Brain Came West (Table of Contents: 7)

Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider] / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils

Dick Ayers

Inks

Dick Ayers

Letters

?

Genre

superhero; western-frontier

Characters

The Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider; Rex Fury]; Spectre (horse); The Brain

Reprints

• from Tim Holt (Magazine Enterprises, 1948 series) #32 (October-November 1952)
• in Best of the West Roundup (AC, 2005 series) #2 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Ghost Rider's name re-lettered as "Haunted Horseman" or "The Haunter." (Except for the last panel, where a reference to "The Ghost Rider" slipped through.)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Writers of the West! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Black [as Wild Bill Black] (credited)

Pencils

John Severin

Inks

John Severin

Letters

typeset

Characters

American Eagle (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Letter from H. Krissoff (Middlesex, NJ). Also small repro of the cover of Prize Comics Western #101.

[AC Westerns] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

AC Comics - Preserving Yesterday's Heroes for Today's Readers (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)