(June 1950)
Orbit-Wanted,
1948 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Patches Publications Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Wild Bill Pecos Meets Widowmaker
Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pal)
- Synopsis
- How Wild Bill got his horse The Widowmaker
Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Mort Lawrence as Mort Leav, but they are two different Morts.
Mystery of the Missing Train!
Nuggets Nugent / comic story / 6.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein [as B. B. Krig] (signed)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein [as B. B. Krig] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Nuggets Nugent; Jonah (nephew); Geronimo (mule)
- Synopsis
- A gang of trainrobbers have taken a train into a camouflaged tunnel to rob it.
Calamity Kate Battles the Rustlers of the Lazy Bar 'M'
Calamity Kate / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Calamity Kate [Patricia Wentworth]; Pete; Mike
- Synopsis
- When cattle rustlers strike on the Lazy Bar M ranch, Calamity Kate tracks them down.
- Reprints
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in Lurid Little Nightmare Makers (Boardman Books, 2014 series) #1 (April 2014)
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- Keywords
- cattle rustling
Indexer Notes
First appearance in her own feature.
The art is similar to Krigstein's signed "Nuggets Nugent" story that it most probably is his work. Nick Caputo is uncertain of the pencils but notes the inking is clearly not the work of Krigstein as credited by the previous indexer.
From the Shadows
comic story / 5.67 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jim Dancer (member of Quantrell's Raiders)
- Synopsis
- Story from the Civil War.
Indexer Notes
The art is identical to Astarita's signed story "Mission Freebooter for Freedom" in Real Life Comics #53.
The Queen of Hearts Spells Death
Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wild Bill pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his pard); Molly Lownes (the 'queen of hearts'); Larry Spade (her boss; owner of a gambling saloon)
- Synopsis
- The Queen of Hearts was certain death to any man who listened to her.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Calamity Kate -
1.
Wild Bill Pecos Meets Widowmaker
Wild Bill Pecos -
2.
Mystery of the Missing Train!
Nuggets Nugent -
3.
The Farmer Goes to Boot Hill
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4.
Calamity Kate Battles the Rustlers of the Lazy Bar 'M'
Calamity Kate -
5.
From the Shadows
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6.
The Queen of Hearts Spells Death
Wild Bill Pecos
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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