(July 1948)

Marvel, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1948-04-01
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Some information on this issue supplied by the Atlas/Timely discussion list and Tom Lammers.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1948, 3rd Series, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 135.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Two-Gun Kid / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Vince Alascia
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Alascia inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlas tales: https://www.atlastales.com/issue/4619 Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.

Cover Thumbnail for Wild West (Marvel, 1948 series) #2
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No Guns For a Killer! (Table of Contents: 1)

Two-Gun Kid / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Vince Alascia
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2868
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

writer's credits from Woolfolk's paybook, via Martin O'Hearn. Story written in January 1948.

Alascia inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlas tales:https://www.atlastales.com/issue/4619 Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.

The Town That Wasn't There! (Table of Contents: 2)

Arizona Annie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
Gene Colan ?; Mike Sekowsky ?
Inks
Frank Giacoia
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2867
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

writer's credits from Woolfolk's paybook, via Martin O'Hearn. Story written in January 1948.

Colan credit per Michael J. Vassallo's Blog:
http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2011/08/gene-colan-1926-2011-timel…

Possible Sekowsky pencils and Giacoia inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlas tales: https://www.atlastales.com/issue/4619

The Payoff (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Lin Streeter (illustration)
Inks
Lin Streeter (illustration)
Letters
typeset
Job Number
SL-2463
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

Streeter credit per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlas tales: https://www.atlastales.com/issue/4619

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

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

Blazing Six-Shooters and the Thundering Herd! (Table of Contents: 5)

Tex Taylor / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2843
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

Writer's credit from Woolfolk's records, transcribed by Martin O'Hearn.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Two-Gun Kid
  2. 1. No Guns For a Killer!
    Two-Gun Kid
  3. 2. The Town That Wasn't There!
    Arizona Annie
  4. 3. The Payoff
  5. 4. ["Don't fail to read these other wonderful magazines published by the editors of Patsy Walker Comics!"]
  6. 5. Blazing Six-Shooters and the Thundering Herd!
    Tex Taylor
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