Tim Holt #30

(June-July 1952)

Precision Routes to Everywhere (Table of Contents: 1)

Know Your Airlines! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; aviation

Indexer Notes

A feature on Swissair, Switzerland's airline. Appears on inside front cover.

The Death Wheel! (Table of Contents: 2)

Tim Holt / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils

Frank Bolle (signed)

Inks

Frank Bolle (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It rattles and spins...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Deputy Sheriff Tim Holt [Redmask of the Rio Grande]; Lady Doom [Liz Beckett, villain, apparent death]; Everett Masters (death)

Reprints

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #28 ([July] 2002)

Mission to Venus (Table of Contents: 3)

Major Mars; Popsicle / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?; typeset

Editing

?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Major Mars; his commander; Professor

Synopsis

Major Mars is sent to Venus to copy, not steal, their invasion plans.

Indexer Notes

Advertisement for the Popsicle Major Mars Rocket Ring that prints photos with the sun's rays. Advertisement agency editing.

The Claws of Horror! (Table of Contents: 4)

The Ghost Rider / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)

Inks

Ernie Bache

Colors

?

Letters

Dick Ayers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The harpy is a creature of legend...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

The Ghost Rider [Federal Marshal Rex Fury]; The Harpy [Belle Martin] (villain); Carl Pasdach; Eli Welles; Frank Hoover; Tom Tisdale

Reprints

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #69 (2008)
which is reprinted
• in Sheriff Classics (Windmill Comics, 2011 series) #9261 ([september] 2015)
• in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #17 (2015)

Indexer Notes

Bache inks per Dick Ayers interview with Bill Black.

Outlaw Hands (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Colors

? (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

He was a lean man...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Turk Madden (outlaw); Sheriff Parker

The Fight at the Water Hole! (Table of Contents: 6)

Tim Holt / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Frank Bolle (signed)

Inks

Frank Bolle (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

With only three bullets left...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Tim Holt; Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamente Rafferty (his prairie pard)

Reprints

• in Western Treasury (AC, 2010 series) #2 (2011)

The Man of 1,000 Faces! (Table of Contents: 7)

Tim Holt / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Frank Bolle (signed)

Inks

Frank Bolle (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

He was the most desperate criminal in all Europe!

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Deputy Sheriff Tim Holt [Redmask of the Rio Grande]; Anton Lemaire (The Man of 1,000 Faces); Alphonse Bertillon (French detective and criminologist); Jim Spencer (death); Detective Paul Calvert (death); Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamente Rafferty

Reprints

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #45