The Westerner Comics #34

(March 1951)

Chief Angry Sun! (Table of Contents: 1)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pard); Chief Angry Sun

Synopsis:

Wild Bill seeks to answer the question of who is supplying the indians with guns and ammunition.

Reprints:

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #52 (2005)

Indexer Notes

Shores is credited on both pencils and inks on Wild Bill Pecos by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and artwork similar to his credited stories in Black Rider.

Writer credit taken from Woolfolk's record book by Martin O'Hearn.

The Return of Kid Runt (Table of Contents: 2)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Mort Leav (signed); staff (signed)

Inks:

Mort Leav (signed); staff (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pard); Kid Runt (killer)

Synopsis:

Only Wild Bill can match the snake-swift draw of the smallest killer who ever dealt death, Kid Runt.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit transcribed from Woolfolk's record book by Martin O'Hearn.

Wedding Bells for Nuggets (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pete Tumlinson

Inks:

Pete Tumlinson

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Nuggets Nugent; Yancy Bates (villain); Kate Henshaw [Kate]

Synopsis:

Yancy Bates is trying to force Betsy to marry him just to get the property of her father.

Indexer Notes

Tumlinson is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is identical to his signed cover of Kid Colt Outlaw #15. Very clean and careful brush inklines.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Wild Bill Pecos Pow Wow / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script:

editors; readers

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

The Two-Gun Grandpappies (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

John Buscema

Inks:

John Buscema ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

Characters:

Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pard); Owlhoot Orton (villain)

Synopsis:

Wild Bill and Nugget track down a notorious outlaw while playing nursemaid to three retired sheriffs.

Reprints:

• in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #63 (2007)

Indexer Notes

Penciller credit from the French fan magazine Back Up #14, as submitted by Stephane Petit, via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. Possible Buscema inks per Nick Caputo.

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.

Alibi (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Sheriff Jim Tylor

Death Hunt (Table of Contents: 8)

Wild Bill Pecos / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Ray Thayer

Inks:

Ray Thayer

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Wild Bill Pecos; Nuggets Nugent (his saddle pard); Otis Stoker (crooked sheriff); Pancho (villain)

Synopsis:

Wild Bill and Nugget are hired as deputies by a crooked sheriff.

Indexer Notes

Ray Thayer drew on the Chuckwagon Charley in Dell's Roy Rogers Comics and Zane Grey's Tappan's Burro in Four Color Comics #449. Softly rounded inklines and figures.

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.