Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #1

([October-November] 1949)

The Durango Kid Swings Into Action Against Four Badmen! (Table of Contents: 1)

Durango Kid / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Indexer Notes

On the inside front cover.

Fraud on the Hoof (Table of Contents: 2)

Durango Kid / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Muley Pike; Jagger (villain)

Synopsis

In Gunhammer Gulch, Steve Brand, aka The Durango Kid, exposes and defeats Jagger, a banker who has hired gunmen to rob money from his own bank in order to cause local ranchers to go broke, whereupon Jagger buys up their properties cheap.

Reprints

• in Seriemagasinet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1951 series) #21/1953 (november 1953)
• in Sheriff Classics (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #9215 (1973)
• in Ranchserien (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1968 series) #107 ([januar 1973]) [2. translation]
• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #5 (1999)

Indexer Notes

Retitled in Dutch reprint as "Fraude in de bank."

Blood of the Pioneers (Table of Contents: 3)

Durango Kid / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Durango Kid [Steve Brand]

Rebel Guns (Table of Contents: 4)

Durango Kid / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Durango Kid [Steve Brand]

Reprints

• in Sheriff Klassiker (BSV - Williams, 1964 series) #169
• in Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #3 ([July 1965])
• in Sheriff Classics (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #9169 (1971) [as "Rebellerende geweren"]
• in Ranchserien (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1968 series) #61 ([1971])

Trigger Justice (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

White Indian / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Krank

Pencils

Frank Frazetta (signed as F. Frazetta)

Inks

Frank Frazetta (signed as F. Frazetta)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Way back, when our country was young...

Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

White Indian [Dan Brand] (introduction; origin); Lucy Wharton; Tipi (introduction); Chief Great Deer (Tipi's father; introduction; death); Peter Bradford (villain; introduction; death)

Reprints

• in Sheriff Klassiker (BSV - Williams, 1964 series) #169
• in White Indian (Magazine Enterprises, 1953 series) #11 [A-1 #94] (1953)
which is reprinted
• in Cowboy Action (L. Miller & Son, 1956 series) #15 (1957)
• in Ranchserien (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1968 series) #61 ([1971])
• in The Complete Frazetta White Indian (Vanguard Productions, 2011 series) (May 2011)

Indexer Notes

Script previously credited to Gardner Fox, but Frazetta himself told Robert R. Barrett that "Ray Krank, who was also the editor at Magazine Enterprises, wrote the scripts." ("The Complete Frazetta White Indian" (Vanguard Productions, 2011), page 7).

Charles Starrett, Star of Columbia's "Durango Kid" Western Movies (Table of Contents: 7)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

On the inside back cover.