Gunfighter #10

(July-August 1949)

Sixguns and the Sisters (Table of Contents: 1)

Gunfighter / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Graham Ingels

Inks

Graham Ingels

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Reprints

• in Gunfighter (Superior, 1949 series) #10 ([circa August 1949])

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

The Curse of the Jessie James Treasure (Table of Contents: 2)

Saddle Justice / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as F.C. Aljon); Johnny Craig (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as F.C. Aljon); Al Feldstein (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Characters

Tom (railroad engineer); unnamed telegraph operator; Carl Dornson (telegraph operator); Sheriff's posse; Robert Ford (cameo); Fred Bader (surveyor, death); Carl Harper (irrigation engineer, death); Jessie (sic) James (villain, death); the James Gang [Frank James; Hank Catell (death); John Liddle (death)] (villains); Charlie (villain, death); Charlie's partner (villain, death)

Synopsis

The James Gang had a remarkable career of robberies and killings, but the search for the treasure loot of the gang collided with the legend of the curse that hovered over that treasure and those who sought it out. Including the $37,000 in gold taken from a train and buried near a dead tree that was later struck by lightning and the gang was unable to locate its hiding area again. Various people later to discover the gold all met with death, leaving the treasure undiscovered to this date.

Reprints

• in Gunfighter (Superior, 1949 series) #10 ([circa August 1949])
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #25 - The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories (October 2019) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

Kansas Pacific Railroad; Wyandotte Kansas

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

It's obvious that Feldstein misspelled the first name of James (should be Jesse).

Much of story told in flashback to July of 1875.

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names. In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

Thommy Burns, in the Fantagraphics book, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories" (October 2019), states that it is impossible to determine who penciled and who inked this story. Art credits revised to reflect both men as possible penciler and/or inker.

Feldstein fictionalized some of the names in this story.

Good-Luck Pieces (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Reprints

• in Gunfighter (Superior, 1949 series) #10 ([circa August 1949])

The End of the Trail (Table of Contents: 4)

Buckskin Kid / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Henry Kiefer

Inks

Henry Kiefer

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Reprints

• in Gunfighter (Superior, 1949 series) #10 ([circa August 1949])

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.