Crack Western #77

(March 1952)

Now You Can Buy This Amazing New Game... (Table of Contents: 1)

The Electric Game Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Arizona Raines / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Gustavson

Pencils

Paul Gustavson

Inks

Paul Gustavson

Colors

?

Letters

Paul Gustavson

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Long ago a valley of death...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Arizona Raines; Spurs; Helen; Ned Fenshaw (scout); Captain Grope (villain, crooked officer)

Synopsis

A wagon train bound to settle on open government land is led by a crooked cavalry captain.

Indexer Notes

Gustavson credits from of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Artwork looks a little like Al Bryant, but the ears are different here.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Two-Gun Lil / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Pete Morisi

Inks

Pete Morisi

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Two-Gun Lil had a heart...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Two-Gun Lil [Lil Peters]; Nola; John Hughes (crook); Dan Hylan; Crowface McCoy

Synopsis

John Hughes runs a murder racket, luring poor, gullible girls out to his ranch to be killed for the dowries they bring along.

Indexer Notes

Pete Motisi is credited to Two-Gun Lil 1952 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the artwork match other of his stories. He has some faces that look like Tuska, which can also be found in his signed work in Crime and Punishment.

Error report 6417 by Ger Apeldoorn, has this info: "Looks like Pete Morisi inked in the Quality house style, with some parts looking like either Morisi inked them after all, or his pencils must have been very precise, also has a couple of Tuska faces."

Bigger! Bigger! and Bigger! (Table of Contents: 4)

Blackhawk Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Colors

?

Letters

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Genre

adventure; war

Characters

Blackhawk

Synopsis

It's Blackhawk! The magazine that brings you every month the greatest adventures ever packed in one issue! Cover of Blackhawk #50 in three different sizes.

The Black Gun Gang (Table of Contents: 5)

Bob Allen Frontier Marshal / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Bob Allen; Lucius P. Potts (deputy, schoolmaster)

Synopsis

Lucius P. Potts played a game of blind bluff with the west's most venomous gang of desperados, to Bob's amazement.

Reprints

• in Action Comic (Trans-Tasman Magazines, 1965 ? series) #[nn] ([1965 ?])

The Original Candy Comic Book (Table of Contents: 6)

Quality Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.75 page (report information)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

Quality Comics, the most dynamic magazines on the newsstands!

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Everett M. Arnold

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Tenderfoot Cowboy (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Jeb Garfield; Pete Swanson; Marie Slater; Tom

Synopsis

Sometimes it takes a woman to make a man out of a boy.

Reprints

• in T-Man (Quality Comics, 1951 series) #38 (December 1956)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

The Whip / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Charles Sultan

Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Whip could perform miracles...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

The Whip [Johnny Lash]; Jake Adams; Chuck (killer); Maddow (land agent)

Synopsis

Old Mr. Adams is killed, and the killers frame the Whip for the murder in plot to gain control of the old man's property.

Indexer Notes

Sultan is credited to just pencils on The Whip by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and compared with Buffalo Belle, the layout and horses match, but not the inking.

Be Popular! (Table of Contents: 10)

Junior Zither / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Synopsis

No practising, no exercises, no lessons. Now you can play any popular song instantly with the Junior Zither.

Be a Success as a Radio-Television Technichian (Table of Contents: 11)

Mr. J. E. Smith / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photos)

Inks

? (photos)

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

America's fast growing industry offers you money and future.

Announcing the new Daisy Defender (Table of Contents: 12)

Daisy Air Rifles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

Daisy Defender Repeating Air Rifle by mail order.