Target Comics #v1#1 [1]

(February 1940)

[On the Trail of Travis Trent] (Table of Contents)

Bull's-Eye Bill / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Everett [as Everett Blake] (signed)

Pencils:

Bill Everett [as Everett Blake] (signed) (also signed as Blake)

Inks:

Bill Everett [as Everett Blake] (signed) (also signed as Blake)

Colors:

Bill Everett [as Everett Blake] (signed)

Letters:

Bill Everett [as Everett Blake] (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

"Bull's-Eye" Bill [Bill Target] (introduction); Quing (introduction, a cook); Dee Parsons (introduction); Steve Casey (introduction); un-named Sheriff; Travis Trent (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Bull's-Eye Bill protects his friend Steve from the Sheriff's posse after Steve uses a gun to settle a land dispute with his neighbor. This puts Bill in hot water with the law, but all is soon forgiven when cattle rustler Travis Trent strikes, and the Sheriff needs Bill's help to bring him in. Dee suffers an unrequited love for Bill, who has no time for women.

Reprints:

• in Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphic Books, 2012 series ) #1

[The Coming of Manowar] (Table of Contents)

White Streak / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Pencils:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Inks:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Content Information

Characters:

The White Streak [Manowar] (Intro; Origin); Simms (Intro); Ramon (Intro); Don Ruizen (Intro; Death; Villain)

Synopsis:

Archeologists Simms and Ramon explore an erupting South American volcano. They discover, emerging from the devastation, the robot Manowar, who tells that he is the last servant of an ancient civilization. He was sent by his masters to bring the war mongers of the world to justice. He gets his first mission in the surrounding countryside, where Dictator Don Ruizen wages war for the benefit of corrupt oil companies.

Sabotage (Table of Contents)

Lucky Byrd / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Campbell?

Pencils:

Harry Campbell

Inks:

Harry Campbell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Harry Campbell?

Content Information

Characters:

Lucky Byrd (Intro); Rocky Stone (Villain; Intro; Death)

[The Fifty-Year-Old Infants] (Table of Contents)

Hi-Grass Twins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

Jack Cole

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Characters:

Hi-Grass Twins [Moe; Joe] (Intro)

The Case of the Black Widow Spider (Table of Contents)

T-Men / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

E. F. Webster

Pencils:

Joe Simon

Inks:

Joe Simon

Colors:

?

Letters:

E. F. Webster

Content Information

Characters:

T-Man Turner (Origin; Intro); Dr. Black (Villain; Intro)

[The Clip-Ear Case] (Table of Contents)

City Editor / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harold Potter

Inks:

Harold Potter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

The City Editor (Intro); Pinky (Intro); Katie (Intro); Phil Manners (Intro); Joyce Bellamy (Intro)

Bullseye Bill Gets His Moniker (Table of Contents)

Bull's-Eye Bill / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gray Browne (signed)

Pencils:

Bill Everett (Illustration) [as Blake] (signed)

Inks:

Bill Everett (Illustration) [as Blake] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Bull's-Eye Bill [Bill Target] (origin); Jess Barnard (general store owner); Steve Casey; un-named Sheriff

Synopsis:

Bill is mystified by a stranger coming out of the general store who is packing a gun, but also is said to be heading out to the Veedor mining claim to have a shootout. To make matters worse, Bill's friend, Steve Casey, has not been seen at his mining claim in a week.

Reprints:

• in Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphic Books, 2012 series ) #1

Indexer Notes

Text with 1/2 page spot illustration. The Archive edition reprints only the first page.

[The Turkey Whistle] (Table of Contents)

Little Puppet Man / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Spina?

Pencils:

John Spina

Inks:

John Spina

Colors:

?

Letters:

John Spina?

Content Information

Characters:

The Puppet Man (Intro); Jerry (Intro); Jane (Intro); Jerry's Mother (Intro)

[The Redemption of Speck] (Table of Contents)

Calling 2R / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alonzo Warren

Pencils:

Alonzo Warren [as Alonzo Vincent] (signed)

Inks:

Alonzo Warren [as Alonzo Vincent] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Alonzo Warren [as Alonzo Vincent] (signed)

Content Information

Characters:

The Captain (Intro); The Skipper (Intro); V-Y (Intro); Speck (Intro); Other inhabitants of Boyville (Intro)

Synopsis:

A scientist known only as The Captain runs a foundation called Boyville, whose mission is to train young men to be Rangers. With the assistance of the Skipper and Ranger V-Y, they take an errant trainee, Speck, into the field for some much-needed discipline. The training mission runs into unexpected complications when V-Y and Speck are captured by spies.

Indexer Notes

2R refers to the home base from which the Captain and the Skipper monitor the progress of their trainees.

[Rip Rory's Initiation] (Table of Contents)

Rip Rory / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Rip Rory (Intro); Bart (Villain; Intro); Anne Stuart (Intro)

Synopsis:

Rip Rory is a freshman at State College, entering with a reputation as a star basketball player from high school. Upperclassman Bart decides to show up the freshman by taking him to the gym and making a fool of him on the basketball court. The plan backfires, as Rip's turns the tables on Bart. Bart's girlfriend Anne sees Bart's cruelty, and introduces herself to Rip.

[Introducing the Sapps] (Table of Contents)

Sapp Family / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Schwab

Pencils:

Fred Schwab

Inks:

Fred Schwab

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fred Schwab

Content Information

Characters:

Elmer Sapp (Intro); Ima Sapp (Intro); Junior Sapp (Intro)

The Maskless Axeman (Table of Contents)

Fantastic Feature Films / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tarpe Mills

Pencils:

Tarpe Mills

Inks:

Tarpe Mills

Colors:

?

Letters:

Tarpe Mills