(July 1949)

Marvel, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1949-03-20
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Marvel Comic [round logo]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Information on this issue supplied by the Timely/Atlas discussion list.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1949, 3rd Series, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 143, Copyright number: B187119.

When The Bell Tolled Murder! (Table of Contents)

Two-Gun Kid / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores ?
Colors
Stan Goldberg ?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Wild Western (Marvel, 1948 series) #8
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When the Bell Tolled Murder! (Table of Contents: 1)

Two-Gun Kid / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
4100
Genre
western-frontier

The Phantom Strikes! (Table of Contents: 2)

Black Rider / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema ?; John Severin ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
5335
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
The Phantom [Josh Mundy] (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

John Buscema credit from Back-Up #14 (edited by Tristan Lapoussière) (info via Stéphane Petit on the Error Tracker, February 2009). Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com credits John Severin on pencils.

California Gold Rush (Table of Contents: 3)

Scrapbook of the West / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mario DeMarco ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
5229
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

pencil credit per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.

A Letter to Our Readers and Their Parents (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ?
Letters
typeset

The Outcast (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
SL-3623
Genre
western-frontier

His Brother's Keeper! (Table of Contents: 6)

Kid Colt / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman (plot); Ernie Hart (dialogue)
Pencils
Russ Heath (signed as RH)
Inks
Russ Heath
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
4638
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.

The Horror of the Caves! (Table of Contents: 7)

Two-Gun Kid / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
4274
Genre
western-frontier
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. When The Bell Tolled Murder!
    Two-Gun Kid
  2. 1. When the Bell Tolled Murder!
    Two-Gun Kid
  3. 2. The Phantom Strikes!
    Black Rider
  4. 3. California Gold Rush
    Scrapbook of the West
  5. 4. A Letter to Our Readers and Their Parents
  6. 5. The Outcast
  7. 6. His Brother's Keeper!
    Kid Colt
  8. 7. The Horror of the Caves!
    Two-Gun Kid
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