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	Best of the West No. 41 It's action and intrigue on the American Western frontier in classic reprints from the best cowboy comics of the 1940's and '50's!! First, The Durango Kid takes up high-stakes gambling in "The Big Frame-Up", with art by Joe Certa and John Belfi. Then, that lovely queen of the sagebrush frontier, Firehair, sorts out mine swindles and claim-jumpers on the Dakota plains in an untitled story drawn by the great Bob Lubbers. The original ghost rider, The Haunted Horseman, tangles with a gang of train-robbers in "The Blasts of Doom!", with illustration by Dick Ayers; Tim Holt, as Red Mask takes a "Ride Against Death", with art by Frank Bolle, from a Gardner F. Fox script; Bob Powell's Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders battle the insect world, and Wild Bill Hickock faces "Tenderfoot Terror", as drawn by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Crisp, clean full-story reprints originally seen within the pages of Magazine Enterprises, Fiction House and Charlton comic books. 44 pages, black & white with color cover. Standard Best of the West size and format. Printed in 2004 Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 42 More great frontier action behind a beautiful painted Black Diamond cover ( by Walt Howarth) this issue. The action starts with Dick Ayer's original Ghost Rider, The Haunted Horseman in "Magico Vs. The Haunted Horseman!! Then, it's Redmask in "The Luck of Major Hanley", drawn by Frank Bolle, followed by cover-feature Black Diamond in "Terror Island", drawn by Bill Walton. As usual, Drango Kid is spotlighted in "The Man Who Hated Everybody"- drawn by Fred Guardineer, American Eagle in "Laughing Dog's Revenge, and Lone Rider in " Glittering Shadows". Bonus features include two Pistol Packin' Pattie shorts by Bolle, "Ill Feelings" and "Cuts Him Short", (both by Bolle) and an inside cover photo still of Charles Starrett as The Durango Kid- with Smiley Burnette!! Great full-story reprints from the Golden Age of the Western comic book, featuring stories originally appearing in books published by Magazine Enterprises, Prize Comics, Ajax-Farrell, and Lev Gleason, in the 1940's and '50's. 44 pages, black & white with color cover. Standard Best of the West size; 61/2" X 10". Printed in 2004. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 43 Inside a great ALL NEW cover by illustrators Dick Ayers and Ed Coutts are these memorable stories from out of the past: The Haunted Horseman faces "The Ghost-Ants of San Pedro", drawn by Dick Ayers, AND relates the macabre morsel, "A Web for Her Wedding Dress", and "Death Came Calling", both by the venerable Mr. Ayers. Then, it's John Severin's American Eagle in "A Life For A Life". Durango Kid finds himself up to his neck in "Blood And Oil", drawn by Joe Certa and John Belfi; Frank Bolle does art chores on "The Junk Robbers", a Tim Holt/Redmask adventure; and Pete Morisi delineates The Masked Rider in "Trail of the Eagle". All this plus some new art plates starring cowgirl Buckaroo Betty, by Ed Coutts. Tops in Western comic book adventure, featuring material originally presented by Magazine Enterprises, Prize Comics, and others. 44pages, black and white with color covers Printed in 2004. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 44 In the cover and lead spot for the first time ever this issue, The Hooded Horseman slaps leather to avoid becoming "Buzzard Bait!", an 8-page oater lushly illustrated by Ogden Whitney. Durango Kid teachers a young man to stand up for himself in "Get Out of My Sight!!", drawn by Fred Guardineer, and comic's original Ghost Rider, The Haunted Horseman learns the grim secret behind "The Haunted Portrait!!", with art by Dick Ayers. Frank Bolle contributes artistically on "Reward for Redmask", co-starring The Black Phantom, and Bob Powell's Bobby Benson and his B-Bar-B Riders play out the drama "Bobby Wins His Spurs!". All this plus plus short features "Blackjack's Hitching Post", and Tales of The Haunted Horseman- "Tortures of the Damned", also by Ayers. 44 pages of great full-stopry Western reprints from the original Magazine Enterprises, Charlton, and ACG comics of the 1950's. Standard comic book format, color covers with black and white interiors. Printed in 2004. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 45 Slap leather with the best of comic's Golden Age cowboys- this issue, start off with Durango Kid in a Fred Guardineer-drawn classic, "The Roar of the Rapids" Then, artist Fread Meagher shows White Indian "The Arrows of Justice"! The Haunted Horseman (comic's original Ghost Rider) clashes with "The Greedy Ghosts of Boot Hill", illustrated by Dick Ayers; Annie Oakley has a "Photo Finish"; Tim Holt as Red Mask meets "The Man of 1,00 Faces", drawn by Frank Bolle- plus featurettes like Tales of the Haunted Horseman- "The Torture of the Damned", by Dick Ayers; Ropin' n' Ridin with Rocky Lane, by Dick Giordano; and Roy Rogers Western Scrapbook. All classic, all vintage- perfect, full-story reprints from the Magazine Enterprises and Dell comics of the 1940's and '50's. 40 pages, black & white with color covers, standard Best of the West size. Printed in 2004. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 46 Wild West wonders abound in this issue, as comic's original Ghost Rider, The Haunted Horseman stalks in "The Vulture Swoops"!! A moody melodrama drawn by the master, Dick Ayers. Then, Fred Guardineer contributes "Six -Gun Empire", another top-notch Durango Kid adventure. Special guest appearance this issue by Wild Bill Elliot, in "The Clock". And finally, a feature-length adventure starring Lash LaRue- "The Dead Man Walks the Range". As always, BOW features crystal-clear reprints of the best in Western comic book stories from the 1940's and '50's, from such publishers as Magazine Enterprises, Dell and Fawcett. 44 pages, black & white with color covers. Standard Best of the West size and format. Printed in 2004. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 47 Special Monte Hale tribute issue!! In honor of the last of the great movie cowboys, Monte Hale, this issue features photos of the November, 2004 ceremony where Monte gets his long-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, plus not one but TWO classic Golden Age Monte Hale comics stories; "The Song of Death", and "The Worst of the Badmen", with art by Ed Good. BOW's big three are here, too, in top-notch nostalgic comic book action, as the Durango Kid tussles with "Dead-Shot Debby", drawn by Fred Guardineer, comic's orginal Ghost Rider, The Haunted Horseman must avoid "A Trap for the Haunted Horseman", illustrated by the great Dick Ayers, and Tim Holt must don his guise of Redmask to stop "The Rescue of Lightning Larry", with art by Frank Bolle. Superb full-story reprints taken form original Fawcett Comics and Magazine Enterprises publications of the 1940's and '50's. 44 pages, black and white with color covers, standard Best of the West 97/8" X 6" format. Printed in 2005. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 48 As always, a top-flight selection of the best classic cowboy comics of the 1940's and '50's. This issue leads off with everybody's favorite, the Durango Kid, in "Inheritance of Death"; illustrated by Joe Certa and John Belfi. Then, it's comic's original ghost rider, The Haunted Horseman, in a tale originally seen in Tim Holt Comics #24- "The Scourge of Guilt", drawn by none other than the great Dick Ayers. Then the team of Certa and Belfi strikes again in a rollicking Dan'l Boone adventure, "The Big Guns"!! Following that, it's Range Rider in "The Giant of Gold Hill", drawn by Tony Sgroi; "Black Fire" by the legendary John Severin, and Tim Holt as Redmask in "The Devil's Own", drawn by Frank Bolle, from Tim Holt #22. High-quality, full-story reprints from the Golden Age of the Western comic book, reprinted using state-of-the-art techniques from comics originally published by Magazine Enterprises, Dell, and Prize Comics. 44 pages, black and white with color covers; standard Best of the West size & format. Printed in 2005. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 49 Inside a breathtaking cover painting of Redmask, it's more top quality vintage reprints from the best Western-theamed comic books of the 1940's & '50's. Cover Star Redmask leads off in "The Weapons of Redmask", illustrated by Frank Bolle. Then, Dick Ayers' Haunted Horseman dares "The Spectral Warrior"; while The Durango Kid learns "Code of the Drygulcher", in a Wild West melodrama drawn by Fred Guardineer; and Annie Oakley guest-stars, as she comes up against "The Black Knight"!! Bill Elliot faces "Timber Treachery" before a Nuggets Nugent short feature, "Call Your Shots". drawn by Mort Lawrence. Beautiful full-story Golden Age reprints from M. E., Dell, Orbit and others. 40 pages, black & white with color covers, standard Best of the West size. Printed in 2005 Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 50 The comic book industry's foremost historical retrospective anthology focusing on the best Western-themed comic books printed during the genre's best period (the late 1940's through early 1950's) reaches it's historic 50Th issue this month, with another top-flight selection of perfect reprint stories. Start off with Dick Ayers art on the terrifying "Haunted Horseman vs. Frankenstein", and see comic's original Ghost Rider match up with Mary Shelley's masterpiece in pitched battle. Then, Frank Bolle provides illustration on the Tim Holt/Redmask gem, "Crimes of the Cape". Monte Hale stars in "The Marshal Takes A Gunning", drawn by Ed Goode, and Durango Kid learns to "Never Say Die"; a Joe Certa/ John Belfi classic initially seen in Magazine Enterprizes ORIGINAL run Best of the West #2, in 1951!!! Jock Mahoney "stars" as Range Rider in "The Come-On", a Tony Sgroi oater originally presented in Dell Comics" Western Roundup #11, and Wild Bill Hickock's pal, Jingles appears in a Charles Nicholas/Sal Trapani Charlton Comics shorty entitled "The Battle of the Bulge". All this plus an inside front cover photo of Charles Starrett from the Columbia Pictures' Durango Kid movie, "El Dorado Pass". 44 pages, black & white with color covers, saddle stitched, standard Best of the West size. Printed in 2005. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 51 Redmask rides again this issue, as the cover star and lead feature, when he goes up against a beautiful but deadly female outlaw leader in "The Lair of the Wildcat", a Frank Bolle-drawn classic, originally seen in M.E. Publications Best of the West #9, in the early 1950's. Then, artist Al Luster presents the Black Diamond and his sidekick Bumper against as they root out a renegade Army commander in "Meet Crazy Captain Vane". The Haunted Horseman, comic's original Ghost Rider makes a chilling appearance in "The Screaming Skeleton", as drawn by Dick Ayers originally for Tim Holt Comics #20, followed by a Fred Guardineer Durango Kid opus, "Muley Puts On His Act". Finally, the beautiful Native American maiden known as Starlight makes her Best of the West debut, in a stunningly-rendered untitled story drawn by Ralph Mayo. High-quality reprints from the Golden Age of Western comics, as per usual. 44 pages, black & white with color covers; standard Best of the West size. Printed in 2005. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 52 The big 52nd issue of Best of the West starts off with a guest lead feature, Orbit Publications excellent Syd Shore cowboy strip, Wild Bill Pecos, as he and his partner Nuggets Nugent tangle with the fierce legions of Chief Angry Sun. Then; it's that pioneersman out of history, Davy Crockett, as he and his pal Daniel meet up with King Ram, in a classic adventure drawn by Jack (King) Kirby. Then, The Durango Kid is shown to be "Tough As They Come", in a wild adventure illustrated by Joe Certa & John Belfi, The Haunted Horseman meets up with "The Murdering Medium", by the great Dick Ayers, and Red Mask ropes in "The Crooked Cook", as illustrated by Frank Bolle- another great tale originally seen within the pages of a Magazine Enterprises comic book of the early 1950's . Vintage Western tales, in full-length, beautifully reprinted format, straight out of the Golden Age of the Western comic book. 44 pages, black & white with color covers, standard Best of the West size. Printed in 2005 Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 53 Wild west action abounds in adventures straight out of the cowboy comics of the 1950's!! Cover star DURANGO KID appears in "Two-Timing Guns", drawn by Joe Certa, and originally appearing in Durango Kid #2, in 1949; big screen star ROCKY LANE saddles up for "The Ace of Death"!, drawn by Tom Cooke, out of Rocky Lane #46, 1952; KITTY CARSON rings in with a three- page shorty; with art by Bob Powell; Dick Ayer's HAUNTED HORSEMAN appears in "Target: Haunted Horseman " from 1954; REDMASK wears "The Death Hat", as drawn by Frank Bolle; plus The GOLDEN ARROW becomes "One Man Law", with art by Ruben Moriera. Only AC Comics can uncover rare, near-forgotten gems like these, originally seen within the pages of vintage comics published by Magazine Enterprises, Fawcett, Charlton and others. 44 pages, black & white with color covers, standard Best of the West size & format. Printed in 2005. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 54 Within a spectacular GIL KANE cover you'll find classic reprints of vintage Western action as rendered by top artists, including debut feature The LAZO KID, by Mort Meskin, in "Posse of the Border", from Prize Comics; DURANGO KID in "The Death That Walked Like a Man", drawn by Fred Guardineer; HAUNTED HORSEMAN in "Into Doom Valley" by Dick Ayers; BLACK DIAMOND in "Blood At Snake Creek", illustrated by Al Luster; AMERICAN EAGLE in "The Acid Test", art by Ted Galindo & John Severin, & ROCKY LANE in "Assignment: Peril", with art by Tom Cooke. 44 pages, black & white with color covers; standard Best of the West size/format. Printed in 2005. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West No. 55 Masked cowboys take center stage this issue, starting off with cover feature Redmask in "Redmask vs. Strawman, illustrated by Frank Bolle. Then, The Haunted Horseman (comic's first Ghost Rider) learns "The Horror of Dead Man's Cave!!", by Ray Krank and Dick Ayers; followed by The Durango Kid in "Strong Medicine", with art by Fred Guardineer, and The Masked Rider in "Unsolved Mystery". Plus, there are two full stories starring a couple of hombres who are NOT afraid to show their faces, Rocky Lane in "The Frame-Up"; drawn by Tom Cooke, and Tom Mix and "The Mortgage on Murder", with art by Carl Pfeufer & John Jordan. Western comics adventure at it's best, straight out of the genre's Golden Age, the early 1950's. 40 pages, black & white with color covers. Standard Best of the West size & format, saddle-stitched. Printed in 2006. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West #56. Wild West comic book action at it's best, with six great features, as always, reprinted from actual, vintage comic books of the genre's heyday, the Golden Age of cowboy comics- the 1950's. Of course, the BOW "Big Three" are all here- cover feature The Haunted Horseman in "The Man Who Hated", as drawn by Dick Ayers; Frank Bolle's Redmask in "The Man Who Rescued Redmask"; and The Durango Kid in "The Big Hunt", illustrated by Fred Guardineer. Then, it's more favorites like Rocky Lane in "The Devil's Hoof", drawn by Tom Cooke, and Black Diamond in "Comanche War Drums". Rod Cameron makes his Best of the West debut this issue in a story entitled "The Human Shield", with art by Clem Weisbecker, plus a Pistol Packin' Pattie short, and an inside cover photo of Charles Starrett and Tris Coffin. 44 pages, black & white interiors with color covers. Standard comic book size, saddle-stitched. Printed in 2006. Price: $6.95
	Best of West #57. Writers and artists featured include Ray Krank, Paul S. Newman and Gardner Fox and Dick Ayers, Lee Elias, Charles Nicholas, Frank Bolle, Joe Certa, John Belfi and more. Star of this issue's great Bob Lubbers cover, Firehair heats up the Old West in a story rendered by Lee Elias. Then, it's Redmask in The Diggers by Frank Bolle, followed by Dick Ayers' Haunted Horseman in He Who Laughs. All this plus the Durango Kid, Rocky Lane and the Latigo Kid. Another nice mix of old favorites, movie-based characters and the unique Firehair strip — a female lead set in the Old West, with a Native American motif as opposed to true cowboys. Drawn by Lee Elias, best known for his long run illustrating Harvey Comics' Good Girl Art heroine, the Black Cat. Printed in 2006. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West #58. Characters cover featured and including stories, are Red Mask, Durango Kid, Haunted Horseman, and Latigo.  This issue also has a story on Lash LaRue and a two page Buffalo Bill Cody.  Artists include Gardner Fox, Joe Certa, John Belfi, Frank Bolle, Dick Ayers, Joe Maneely, and Rocke Madtroserio.  Printed in 2006. Price: $6.95
	Best of the West #59-63. New issues become available most months.  Each contains stories on Durango Kid, Red Mask and Haunted Horseman.  Additional content varies.  Many recent issue contain Monty Hale.  To get a complete description of issue #59 on, see our web store or give us a call at 407-767-0199.  You can also check on most recent issue released this way or go to AC CENTRAL and check under FIRST LOOK COMICS. Price: $6.95 each issue

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