Wild Western
#18
(October 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)
[no title indexed]
Black Rider / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed); Werner Roth (see notes)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed); Werner Roth (see notes)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Black Rider
- Reprints
-
in Ranger Trails (Bell Features, 1950 series) #22 ([circa November 1951]) [modified] - in Wild Western (Bell Features, 1948 series) #15 ([circa November 1951])
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Indexer Notes
Werner Roth inset taken from the cover of Apache Kid # 7.
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
The Secret of the Apache Kid!
Apache Kid / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- 8786
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Apache Kid; Nellie Green; Captain Bill Gregory; Red Hawk; Corporal Tim; Nightwind
- Synopsis
- Nellie learns the Apache Kid and Aloysius Kare are the same person and tries to blackmail the kid into helping her with a smuggling operation, but he calls in Captain Gregory. As the Kid struggles with Nellie's wagon it goes over a cliff with Nellie, killing her.
- Keywords
- Copper Canyon; Madison
Thunder Below the Border!
Red Larabee, the Gunhawk / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- 8759
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gunhawk [Red Larabee]; Tinto Chavez; Hontana Morades; Buff Parker; Ricardo Manuel Ibanez; Donna Teresa Orestes; Juan Sebastian Ibanez; Terror
- Synopsis
- Morades tricks Parker into releasing Chavez to him. Red pursues Chavez and meets Ricardo, who helps Red kill Chavez and his gang, obtaining vengeance on Chavez for killing his parents.
- Keywords
- Mexico; Tolputic
Innocent Men Don't Die
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Tumlinson (illustration)
- Inks
- Pete Tumlinson (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- 8700
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Kid Colt illustration, not in story
The Man Who Didn't Die!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 8564
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Pat Garrett; Billy the Kid; Bart Hederdeen; Mr. Heberdeen; Slim
- Synopsis
- Bart sees Billy the Kid kill his father. Many years after the Kid's death Bart meets a senile old man who seems to be Billy the Kid, still alive, but Bart lets the old man live at peace.
- Keywords
- Lewistown; New Mexico; Ogden
Indexer Notes
Maxon art per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com. Saltarella previously credited August Froelich on pencils and inks.
The Murderers of Crippled Bend!
Black Rider / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Robert Bernstein (signed)
- Pencils
- Jay Scott Pike (signed)
- Inks
- Chu F. Hing
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 8754
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Black Rider; Tod Rancer; Sandy; Thompson; Carerro; Nick Kelway; Jed Pinkham; Eve Calhoon; Satan (horse)
- Synopsis
- Silver is found on Eve's ranch and her foreman Tod is trying to get it on behalf of his backers, including Thompson and Carerro. After Tod is killed the Black Rider discovers the supposed US Marshal Kelway who 'infiltrated' the gang is actually the gang leader and exposes him.
- Keywords
- Colorado; Crippled Bend
Indexer Notes
Hing inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Jay Scott Pike.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Black Rider -
1.
The Secret of the Apache Kid!
Apache Kid -
2.
Thunder Below the Border!
Red Larabee, the Gunhawk -
3.
Innocent Men Don't Die
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4.
The Man Who Didn't Die!
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5.
The Murderers of Crippled Bend!
Black Rider
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