Crack Western
#68
(September 1950)
Quality Comics,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Harry Stein; Elaine Allen (associate editor); Gloria Bley (associate editor); Alfred Grenet (associate editor); June Andrus (associate editor); Richard Arnold (associate editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gerald Durant (photography of Jerome Courtland)
- Reprints
-
in Crack Western (Bell Features, 1950 series) #68 ([circa 1951])
-
Indexer Notes
Star of Columbia’s "When You're Smiling" 1950. Credits inside front cover.
Phantom Town!
Arizona Raines / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines
Indexer Notes
Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[The Masked Outlaw!]
Two-Gun Lil / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Shooting high, shooting low, Two-Gun Lil conquers...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Two-Gun Lil [Lil Roberts]; Utt Milney (villain); Nacia Milney (his daughter)
- Reprints
-
in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #35 (2003)
-
Indexer Notes
Pointed faces with eyes far apart look like Riss, especially the two last pages, but inking makes it uncertain.
Title from reprint
Silver in Coyote Gap!
Dead Canyon Days / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Big Jim Croker (villain)
- Reprints
-
in Triple Western Pictorial Monthly (Magazine Management, 1955 series) #9 (February 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella.
Draw against Death
Arizona Raines / text story / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Woolfolk
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.
Target for Outlaw Guns!
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal / comic story / 7 pages
- Feature Logo
- Frontier Marshal
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bob Allen (town marshal)
- Reprints
-
in Gunsmoke Trail (L. Miller & Son, 1957 series) #4 (1958) - in Gunsmoke Trail (Farrell, 1957 series) #4 (January 1958) [retitled]
-
Indexer Notes
The layout and figure movement similar to many of Anderson's credited stories, as in T-Man Comics, Nyoka, and Mr. Scarlet and Pinky, but uncertain. His peculiar lines outside corners of eyes are missing, and he is only on pencils by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Phantom Town!
Arizona Raines -
2.
[The Masked Outlaw!]
Two-Gun Lil -
3.
Silver in Coyote Gap!
Dead Canyon Days -
4.
Draw against Death
Arizona Raines -
5.
Target for Outlaw Guns!
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal -
6.
Suspense! Thrills! Adventure!
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- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Katy Hayhurst
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
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