Crack Western
#75
(November 1951)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Alfred Grenet; Richard Arnold (associate editor)
[Trampling Hoofs of Murder!]
Arizona Raines / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall
- Inks
- Reed Crandall
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines; Spurs (his young pal); Buck Stevens (villain)
Indexer Notes
Title from the story the cover is illustrating.
Pencils:
1) Crandall is credited on covers for Quality Comics by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and his faces are not to be mistaken. He made most of the following covers for Crack Western.
2) Charles Cuidera suggested by Saltarella.
Trampling Hoofs of Murder!
Arizona Raines / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines; Spurs; Nita Duncan; Red Hager (villain, foreman)
- Synopsis
- Arizona and Spurs are nearly killed by stampeding longhorns.
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 verified by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Cover story
The Vultures of Goldhill!
Two-Gun Lil / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Millard
- Pencils
- Leo Morey
- Inks
- Leo Morey
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Two-Gun Lil [Lil Peters]; Dawson (crooked mine owner); Rodney (villain)
- Synopsis
- Dawson floods the mines to get the holders to sell to their shares to him.
Indexer Notes
Most probably art by Morey when comparing with some credited work, like grave long faces and the girl in profile.
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.
Hangnoose Sunrise!
The Whip [Johnny Lash] / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Charles Sultan
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Lash [The Whip]; Jake (bank robber); Rupe Hedge (bank robber); Sag Sawyer (bank robber)
- Synopsis
- Johnny Lash is framed and jailed for bank robbery.
- Reprints
-
in Apache Trail (Farrell, 1957 series) #3 (February 1958) [retitled and reworked] which is reprinted
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in 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 make this most probably by him.
Kill or Be Killed!
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Anderson ?
- Inks
- Harry Anderson ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bob Allen; Tom Mason; Jed Mason; VILLAINS: Ben Prue; Pete Bliss; Mark Sont; Lefty Riel
- Synopsis
- A man is killed trying to help the marshal.
- Reprints
-
in Crack Western (Magazine Management, 1950 series) #17 (March 1952)
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Indexer Notes
Some close up faces have resemblance to Anderson's art in Quality's T-Man Comics, but uncertain.
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0.
[Trampling Hoofs of Murder!]
Arizona Raines -
1.
Here it is at Last!
Ken Shannon -
2.
Trampling Hoofs of Murder!
Arizona Raines -
3.
The Vultures of Goldhill!
Two-Gun Lil -
4.
Hangnoose Sunrise!
The Whip [Johnny Lash] -
5.
[no title indexed]
Blackhawk -
6.
A Trap for Rustlers
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7.
Kill or Be Killed!
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mougin
- Craig Delich
- Len Wolinsky
- Per Sandell
- Peter Croome
- Steinar Ådland
- Clint Maxwell
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