Bob Steele Western #1

(December 1950)

Dimwit Diddle Gets Bumped! (Table of Contents: 1)

Dimwit Diddle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Dimwit Diddle; Butch

Hangman's Bait Chapter 1 The Fire of Death (Table of Contents: 2)

Bob Steele / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

Eddie Robbins

Inks:

Eddie Robbins

Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Bob Steele; Bullet (horse); Bert Crandall; Ben Howland (lawyer)

Synopsis:

Bob is helping lawyer Howland to solve a case against an innocent man. Chapter one.

Indexer Notes

Art ID from Boyd Magers, and confirmed by comparing stories in Adventures into Terror #12 and Astonishing #19. Also the face and eyebrows in 0169 RobbinsEd from Jerry Bails' Who's Who confirms the artwork.

Fool's Gold (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Otto Binder [as Eando Binder] (signed)

Pencils:

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Colors:

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Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Dusty Jones (prospector); Lop Ears (mule); Jod Jackson (robber); Squint Peters (robber)

Synopsis:

Fool's gold used to fool two robbers.

Hangman's Bait Chapter 2 The Trigger Trap! (Table of Contents: 4)

Bob Steele / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

Ed Robbins

Inks:

Ed Robbins

Colors:

?

Letters:

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Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Bob Steele; Bullet (horse); Bert Crandall; Ben Howland (lawyer); Mary Crandall; Jed Caton (banker); Charly McCann (crook); Pinto (crooked deputy)

Synopsis:

Bob is locked in jail by the crooked deputy

Indexer Notes

Notes as for chapter one.

Fine Accompanist (Table of Contents: 5)

Pianist Pete / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Pianist Pete; Buck

There is Always Action! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Monte Hale Western / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.34 page (report information)

Hangman's Bait Chapter 3 Guns and Grit (Table of Contents: 7)

Bob Steele / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Robbins

Inks:

Ed Robbins

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Bob Steele; Bullet (horse); Bert Crandall; Ben Howland (lawyer); Mary Crandall; Jed Caton (banker); Charly McCann (crook); Pinto (crooked deputy); Ace (gambler)

Synopsis:

Bob manages to get out of jail and find Cato's record books.

Indexer Notes

Notes as for chapter one.

Not a Department Store! (Table of Contents: 8)

Bronko Betsy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Bronko Betsy; Paw

Synopsis:

Betsy and Paw are gone fishing.

Lost (Table of Contents: 9)

Fizzy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Fizzy; Old Timer

A Boner! (Table of Contents: 10)

Glib Gibbons / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Letters:

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Genre:

humor; western-frontier

Characters:

Glib Gibbons; Curly

Bob Steele The Roughest, Toughest Cowboy of Them All! (Table of Contents: 11)

Bob Steele / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Colors:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Bob Steele

Indexer Notes

Back cover.