Western Comics
#72
(November-December 1958)
DC,
1948 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-09-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Julius Schwartz (actual editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Rainbow Trail of Doom!
Pow-Wow Smith / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
-
in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992) [cover illustration]
-
The Rainbow Trail of Doom!
Pow-Wow Smith / comic story / 11.67 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Pow-Wow Smith
- Reprints
-
in Kid Colt Outlaw (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #55 ([1959]) -
in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #39 ([January 1959])
-
Look to the Stars!
public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh Bob, we're lost! What do we do now?
- Genre
- advocacy; math & science
- Characters
- Bob; Ted
- Synopsis
- Bob and his friends are saved from being lost in the woods because Bob knows how to find Polaris, the North Star.
Indexer Notes
Appeared across a range of DC comics in November/December 1958.
[no title indexed]
Redman's Magic! / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Chippewa Indians used to smoke the dried, powdered roots of aster flowers...
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Reprints
The Riddle of the Crystal Ball!
The Nighthawk / comic story / 6.67 pages
- Genre
- historical; western-frontier
- Characters
- Nighthawk [Hannibal Hawkes]; Lute; Jed
- Synopsis
- Nighthawk poses as a fortune teller to trap a pair of outlaws.
- Reprints
- in Kid Colt Outlaw (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #54
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) (1990 [January 1991])
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992)
-
Night Guards!
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Reprints
- from Hopalong Cassidy (DC, 1954 series) #92 (August 1954)
- in Kid Colt Outlaw (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #54
-
[no title indexed]
The Hitching Post / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Miller (credited as Hitching Post Editor)
- Pencils
- Morris Waldinger
- Inks
- Tom Nicolosi
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters from Brad Hawley, Jimmy Ross, John Chester, and Bill Hutchens.
[Sioux, Yuma, Kwalhioqua]
Indian Tribal Names! / cartoon / 0.5 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Rainbow Trail of Doom!
Pow-Wow Smith -
1.
[no title indexed]
Honor House Products Corp. -
2.
The Rainbow Trail of Doom!
Pow-Wow Smith -
3.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
4.
["Do you know the legend of Superman?"]
Superman -
5.
Look to the Stars!
-
6.
["Chippewa Indians used to smoke the dried, powdered roots of aster flowers..."]
Redman's Magic! -
7.
The Riddle of the Crystal Ball!
The Nighthawk -
8.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop -
9.
Night Guards!
-
10.
[no title indexed]
The Hitching Post -
11.
[Sioux, Yuma, Kwalhioqua]
Indian Tribal Names! -
12.
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park -
13.
The Mystery Lantern of Pinto Gap!
The Wyoming Kid -
14.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
15.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales -
16.
[no title indexed]
Charles Atlas -
17.
[no title indexed]
American Specialty Co.
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Paul Robinson
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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