Crack Western
#73
(July 1951)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
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A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Alfred Grenet; Richard Arnold (associate editor)
Issue Notes
Free Land!
Arizona Raines / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines; Spurs
- Reprints
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in Ajax Adventure Annual (T. V. Boardman, 1952 series) #[1] (Christmas 1952)
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Indexer Notes
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.
Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
The Counterfeit Whip!
The Whip / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Whip [Johnny Lash]; Ben (rustler); Colt (rustler); Jess Berger (crooked mine owner); Lola Morse
- Synopsis
- The Whip meets a girl masked as another Whip and who is out to get back gold stolen by Berger.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Sultan is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the many close up faces with his "bulging" eyes is most probably by him.
Six Guns from the Sky!
Two-Gun Lil / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Two-Gun Lil [Lil Peters]; Bat Sheldon (gunman); Mike Peters (sheriff)
- Synopsis
- The Sheldon brothers shoot the sheriff and reckon to take over the town and start running it their own way.
- Reprints
- in Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual (T. V. Boardman, 1949 series) #4 (1952)
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in The Lone Rider (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #32 ([March 1955]) - in The Super Album (Alexander Moring, 1956 series) #[nn] ([1956])
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Indexer Notes
Faces with marked noses, and movement of figures must be by Quinlan, out of the four artists credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.
Gun-Slinger's Gratitude
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bob Allen; Sam Westley (banker); Bart Egan (villain); Matt Egan (villain)
- Synopsis
- The bank is robbed and the banker shot. He is unconscious and it will take days before he can identify the robbers.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Anderson's special eyes with short lines on outer corner are not so evident here so inking uncertain.
Meet Ken Shannon
Ken Shannon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Synopsis
- House ad for Police Comics, with its new feature: Ken Shannon
The Phantom Stagecoach
Arizona Raines / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines; Spurs; Lucy Montain; Kem Randall (villain)
- Synopsis
- A stagecoach has been ambushed and driver and passengers killed, but now the same coach and passengers appear as a white phantom to scare the man behind the robbery.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Gustavson has special grinning faces with deep jaws and sparkling eyes, and he is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Gustavson credits confirmed by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.
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Free Land!
Arizona Raines -
2.
The Counterfeit Whip!
The Whip -
3.
Six Guns from the Sky!
Two-Gun Lil -
4.
Gun-Slinger's Gratitude
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal -
5.
Cactus Pete's Gold
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6.
Meet Ken Shannon
Ken Shannon -
7.
The Phantom Stagecoach
Arizona Raines -
8.
Another Smash Issue
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- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Len Wolinsky
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