Bill Boyd Western #2

(April 1950)

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Captain Marvel / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Perilous Journey (Table of Contents: 2)

Bill Boyd / comic story / 23.66 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pete Riss ?

Inks:

Pete Riss ?

Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Bill Boyd; Topper (horse); Sheriff Graystone; Hank Parr (outlaw)

Synopsis:

Bill is tricked into helping an outlaw to escape from the posse, and is himself put in jail suspected of being a member of the outlaw gang. He escapes from jail and joins up with the gang to catch the outlaw.

Indexer Notes

Pete Riss is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the inking seems similar to his credited stories on "Kid Eternity", but few of his wedge shaped faces with eyes far apart, as in most of his credited stories in "Adventures Into the Unknown", are present in this story. The horses with large, square snouts and extremely large hooves, are identical to the horses in 4-5 issues in this series. Only Riss and Elkan are credited on Bill Boyd, so these stories could either be Riss, or some other uncredited artist. He had more realistic horses in 1953 than here.
Bill Boyd's black horse is called Midnite in the first issue, here it is Topper, and has a light blue color.

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Fighting Fool (Table of Contents: 4)

Hammerhead / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Hammerhead

Synopsis:

Hammerhead is splashed by a passing rider and wants a fight.

Rustler's Range (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Dick Kraus

Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Dad Parker (ranch hand); Jeff Scott (boss); Sheriff

Synopsis:

No one seemed to be able to stop the rustlers on Grand Prairie.

Eye See (Table of Contents: 6)

Brainy Buster / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Brainy Buster; Dopey Doran

Synopsis:

Keep your eyes open, or folks will think you are loco.

The Pony Express Rider (Table of Contents: 7)

Windy Whopper / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Windy Whopper; Tourist

Synopsis:

Windy shows a tourist around town.

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