Best of the West #36

([June] 2003)

America's Favorite Singing Cowboy-Gene Autry! (Table of Contents: 1)

Gene Autry / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Gene Autry (photo)

Synopsis:

Gene holding a pistol and leaning on a fence with his right hand and his left hand on his waist. (front view)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Full page publicity still.

Best of the West (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Bill Black [as Wild Bill]

Pencils:

? (photos)

Inks:

? (photos)

Letters:

typeset

Characters:

Marshal Steve Autry (photo of Gene Autry); Champion (horse, photo); ? (photo of Justin Aldrich [Jay Aldrich])

Indexer Notes

Introduction with photos, including a still from "Rim of the Canyon" (1949).

The Bighorn Hunt (Table of Contents: 3)

Gene Autry / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Nicholas Firfires

Inks:

Nicholas Firfires

Letters:

Nicholas Firfires

Genre:

western-frontier

Reprints:

• from Western Roundup (Dell, 1952 series) #8 (October-December 1954)

Indexer Notes

Three pages cut?

One Night of Death (Table of Contents: 4)

Durango Kid / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Certa

Inks:

John Belfi ?

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Reprints:

• from Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #2 ([December] 1949 - [January 1950])

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys-or-A Day at the Autry Museum (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Jeffrey M. Bembaron (signed)

Pencils:

? (photograph)

Inks:

? (photograph)

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Gene Autry (photos)

The Desert Robbers (Table of Contents: 6)

Tim Holt [Red Mask] / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Bolle (signed)

Inks:

Frank Bolle (signed)

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Reprints:

• from Tim Holt (Magazine Enterprises, 1948 series) #40 (February-March 1954)

The Ghost's Apprentice (Table of Contents: 7)

The Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider] / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Ayers

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Letters:

Dick Ayers

Genre:

superhero; western-frontier

Characters:

Haunted Horseman; Spectre (horse)

Reprints:

• from Tim Holt (Magazine Enterprises, 1948 series) #40 (February-March 1954) [retitled, "The Ghost's Apprentice"]

Indexer Notes

All references to Ghost Rider have been replaced with "Haunted Horseman" or "the Haunter."

["AC Comics presents a classic omnibus of Golden Age..."] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Golden-Age Treasury / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Terror in the Night! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

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