Best of the West #36

([June] 2003)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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) (Expand) /

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

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

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