All Star Western
#81
(February-March 1955)
DC,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1954-12-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Julius Schwartz (actual editor)
Issue Notes
Script and art credits for stories and fillers verified from copies of DC editorial records sent to Gene Reed from Nelson Bridwell in 1986. On-sale date from copyright registration.
Sign of the Flaming Arrow!
The Trigger Twins / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Trigger Twins
[no title indexed]
My Greatest Adventure / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now- for the first time, you can share the world's most exciting exploits...
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
On the inside front cover. Includes a reproduction of the cover to My Greatest Adventure #1.
The Sign of the Flaming Arrow!
The Trigger Twins / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Trigger Twins
- Synopsis
- The local Cheyenne plan an uprising once a renegade, Bear Claw, arrives with a famed "flaming arrow", a flint arrowhead symbolic of victory. Walt ambushes Bear Claw, ineptly, and Wayne must save him. But Walt is captured and tied to a stake in a war dance. Wayne disguises as an Indian and gets close. Yet no one can find the flaming arrow - until it falls out of Wayne's holster at home!
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
1) Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. 2) A diagram shows the secret "Trigger Twins" cellar with spare costumes and hidden stable under Wayne's store.
Binky's Special Christmas Quiz "Christmas in Many Lands!"
Binky / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; teen
Prisoner of the Magic Horn!
Strong Bow / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A shaman blows a magic horn that summons Strong Bow, but the "hero" steals furs and wampum. The real Strong Bow arrives, waylays the shaman, but is strung up by a trap to be shot with arrows by disbelieving tribesmen! Fast thinking and fast arrows spring Strong Bow so he can expose his evil double. The magic horn will be cast into a deep lake "to lie concealed for all time!"
- Reprints
-
in Seriemagasinet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1951 series) #12/1957 ([desember] 1957) -
in Tomahawk (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #2/1975 (13 februari 1975) - in Tomahawk (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #2/1975 ([februar] 1975) [2. translation]
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Chief Hot Foot / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nice car!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #39 (February-March 1947)
-
[Ridin' and Ropin']
Tex / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Reprints
- from Jimmy Wakely (DC, 1949 series) #11 (May-June 1951)
- in Seriemagasinet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1951 series) #1/1958 ([januar] 1958)
-
The Blue-and-the-Gray and the U.S.A.!
Foley of the Fighting 5th / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Tracking renegade Indians, Lt Dan Foley is peeved that two "Vuh-ginian" and "Connecticut Yankee" troopers continue to fight the Civil War. When Foley calls for volunteers, they dare each other to scale a cliff, start an avalanche, and split the Indian forces in two while Foley captures the leader. The rivals shake hands. "Just remember you're all part of the U.S.A!"
- Reprints
- in Seriemagasinet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1951 series) #10/1956 ([august] 1956)
-
in All Favourites Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #22 ([December 1960])
-
The Phantom Gold Mine
text article / 2 pages
- Script
- Jack Miller
- Pencils
- Raymond Perry (header)
- Inks
- Raymond Perry (header)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
Silver Badge of Courage!
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A short account of the Graham-Tewksbury feud.
Johnny Thunder vs the Tarantula!
Johnny Thunder / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Thunder [John Tane]; Tarantula
- Synopsis
- Johnny Thunder rides into a town to learn that "Johnny Thunder is tanglin' with the Tarantula" across town! JT rides to a hay wagon fight - and is mobbed by thugs hidden under the hay. The Tarantula (an ordinary gunman, not costumed) wants to kill JT in a "fair fight" to encourage other gangs to capture towns. But Johnny jumps off the building, slashing his bonds, and fights "like a whirlwind" to stop the gang, even rescuing the Tarantula from a burning hay fire!
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Sign of the Flaming Arrow!
The Trigger Twins -
1.
["Now- for the first time, you can share the world's most exciting exploits..."]
My Greatest Adventure -
2.
The Sign of the Flaming Arrow!
The Trigger Twins -
3.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
4.
Binky's Special Christmas Quiz "Christmas in Many Lands!"
Binky -
5.
Prisoner of the Magic Horn!
Strong Bow -
6.
["Nice car!"]
Chief Hot Foot -
7.
[no title indexed]
Smith Brothers Cough Drops -
8.
[Ridin' and Ropin']
Tex -
9.
The Blue-and-the-Gray and the U.S.A.!
Foley of the Fighting 5th -
10.
The Phantom Gold Mine
-
11.
Silver Badge of Courage!
-
12.
Johnny Thunder vs the Tarantula!
Johnny Thunder -
13.
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912
-
14.
[no title indexed]
Cheerful Card Company -
15.
[no title indexed]
Motor's Auto Repair Manual -
16.
[no title indexed]
Fashion Frocks, Inc.
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Clayton Emery
- Dave Marchand
- Lou Mazzella
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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