Wild Western
#15
(April 1951)
Marvel,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Updated with information from atlastales.com.
The Man Who Died Twice!
Black Rider; Apache Kid; Gunhawk / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Hartley (see notes)
- Inks
- Christopher Rule (see notes)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg (see notes)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Black Rider; Apache Kid (inset); Gunhawk (inset)
Indexer Notes
Hartley pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com. Rule inks per Nick Caputo.
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
The Man Who Died Twice!
Black Rider / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Robert Bernstein (see notes)
- Pencils
- Al Hartley
- Inks
- Al Hartley
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 7940
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
-
in Boots & Saddle (Bell Features, 1951 series) #29 ([circa August 1951])
-
Indexer Notes
Bernstein script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-bernstein-black-rider.html.
Killer's Law!
Apache Kid / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- 7951
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
- in Boots & Saddle (Bell Features, 1951 series) #29 ([circa August 1951])
-
in Giant Gunsmoke Western (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #6 ([January 1961])
-
Indexer Notes
Shares the same job number as the Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 Series) #14 (May 1951) story, "The Boy Who Hunted Kid Colt!"
The Lady and El Diablo
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (illustration); ? (panel)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (illustration); ? (panel)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- 6827
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
- in Boots & Saddle (Bell Features, 1951 series) #29 ([circa August 1951])
-
Backfire!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mike Esposito (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 7984
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
- in Boots & Saddle (Bell Features, 1951 series) #29 ([circa August 1951])
- in Giant Gunsmoke Western (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #6 ([January 1961])
-
How Gunhawk Got His Name!
Gunhawk / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Clayton Martin (see notes)
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 7949
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
- in Boots & Saddle (Bell Features, 1951 series) #29 ([circa August 1951]) [splash page used as cover], #29 ([circa August 1951])
- in Giant Gunsmoke Western (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #6 ([January 1961])
-
Indexer Notes
Origin of Gunhawk.
Script credits from Michael J. Vassallo, from the records of Clayton Martin via Clayton's family (posted to the Timely-Atlas-Comics, a Facebook group, on 12 April 2020).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Man Who Died Twice!
Black Rider; Apache Kid; Gunhawk -
1.
The Man Who Died Twice!
Black Rider -
2.
Killer's Law!
Apache Kid -
3.
The Lady and El Diablo
-
4.
Backfire!
-
5.
How Gunhawk Got His Name!
Gunhawk
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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