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; 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

Artwork similar to Shores' credited stories in Black Rider.

Script 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 [Betsy]; Geronimo (horse); Marrying Willie

Synopsis

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

Indexer Notes

The art is identical to his signed cover of Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #15. Very clean and careful brush inklines.

The bride-to-be's name changes back and forth from Kate to Betsy.

[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.