The Westerner Comics #30

(November 1950)

The Water Rustlers! (Table of Contents: 1)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils

Syd Shores

Inks

Syd Shores

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent; Bull Durko (villain)

Synopsis

Wild Bill and Nugent challenge the merciless monopoly of the water rustlers.

Reprints

• in Wild Bill Pecos Western (AC, 1989 series) #1 (1989)

Indexer Notes

The artwork is similar to Shores' credited stories in Black Rider, accurate horses, long figures and faces, and some hats with round dents in the hat looking like two spooky eyes.

Marshal of No-gun Town (Table of Contents: 2)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils

Syd Shores

Inks

Syd Shores

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Wild Bill Pecos; Widowmaker (his horse); Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pal); Geronimo (Nuggets' horse)

Synopsis

Wild Bill must survive as Marshal in a town where firearms are strictly forbidden.

Reprints

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #38 (2003)

Indexer Notes

Same notes as for the first story.

The Phantom Bugle (Table of Contents: 3)

A Legend of the West / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Hamilton

Reprints

• in Crime Does Not Pay (Pembertons, 1950 ? series) #6 (1950)

Good-Luck Charm (Table of Contents: 4)

Nuggets Nugent / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Lawrence (signed)

Inks

Mort Lawrence ? (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Hamilton

Genre

western-frontier

Wagons of Doom (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Readin' -Ridin' and Robbin' (Table of Contents: 6)

Calamity Kate / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett ?

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Patricia Layne [Calalmity Kate]; Jeff Tyler (deputy sheriff); Martha Alden (new school teacher)

Reprints

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #40 (2004)

Indexer Notes

Possible Everett pencils and inks per Nick Caputo, November 2015.

The Big '3' (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Killers of the Plains! (Table of Contents: 8)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Syd Shores

Inks

Syd Shores

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Hamilton

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his pard); Spike Jensen

Synopsis

A gang of white men attacks and massacres a wagontrain loaded with supplies.

Reprints

• in AC Annual (AC, 1990 series) #1 (1990)
• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #25 ([February] 2002)
• in Best of the West Roundup (AC, 2005 series) #3 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Art ID from reprint.