Crack Western
#80
(September 1952)
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
- Alfred Grenet; Richard Arnold (associate editor)
[Mexican Massacre]
Arizona Raines / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once upon a time, across the border in gay Mexico...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Arizona Raines
Indexer Notes
Story title taken from the cover.
Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
The Murder on Stage!
Two-Gun Lil / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Two-Gun Lil [Lil Peters]; Rufus; Chaunsey De Greef (crooked actor); John Maxwell
- Synopsis
- A man is jailed for spreading counterfeit money.
- Reprints
-
in Ringo Kid (Horwitz, 1955 series) #4 ([September 1955])
-
Indexer Notes
The broad faces with round eyes and small mouth are the art of Morisi. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.
[no title indexed]
Blackhawk / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fantastic! Weird!
- Genre
- adventure; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Synopsis
- House ad for Blackhawk Comics with a cover reproduction of issue #55.
[no title indexed]
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Snow means many things to many people, to Eskimos it's...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bob Allen; Kortner (villain); Tim Acres (farmer)
- Synopsis
- Allen is out in the snow nailing up posters and discovers the outlaws are hiding on a nearby farm.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited an uncertain Harry Anderson. Not him. This art has much the same close up faces, figures and very large guns as in Certa's Durango Kid stories. He is the most probable on pencils.
A Ranger Again
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Chet Kenny
- Reprints
-
in T-Man (Quality Comics, 1951 series) #36 (July 1956)
-
[no title indexed]
The Whip / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As if catching outlaws weren't tough enough, Johnny Lash...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Lash [The Whip]; Marty (traitor); Macafee (Ranger)
- Synopsis
- A traitor in the Ranger Headquarters tips off bandits.
Indexer Notes
Sultan is credited on pencil on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the eyes gives him away.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Mexican Massacre
Arizona Raines -
1.
[Mexican Massacre]
Arizona Raines -
2.
The Murder on Stage!
Two-Gun Lil -
3.
["Fantastic! Weird!"]
Blackhawk -
4.
["Snow means many things to many people, to Eskimos it's..."]
Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal -
5.
A Ranger Again
-
6.
["As if catching outlaws weren't tough enough, Johnny Lash..."]
The Whip
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Chris Boyko
- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Len Wolinsky
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