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Best of the West Big B-Western Special 1.
100 pages of NEVER PREVIOUSLY REPRINTED Western classics from
the heyday of the cowboy comic book; the 1950's!! This is the
BIGGEST "all new" Western comic book reprint collection we have
EVER offered, a great entertainment value for the Western
comic aficionado. A great Monte Hale painted cover starts off
this top-flight package, then inside cover photos of Roy Rogers,
Trigger, Rex Allen, Rocky Lane and Monte
Hale. Once you're past the cover, the first vintage story (not
seen since it's original appearance within the pages of a Fawcett
Comics title almost 60 years ago) is cover star Monte
Hale in "Safecrackers Unlimited"; drawn by Ed Good.
Then, it's Magazine Enterprise's Durango Kid, as drawn
by Fred Guardineer; appears in "The Hot Money";
followed by a three-part, novel-length saga starring Lash LaRue-
"Struggle In The Wilderness". Then, it's Roy Rogers
and Trigger in "The Gold Gulch Stampede", by John
Buscema; Sunset Carson in an untitled story drawn by
Keats Petree; Tim Holt in "Satan's Sixguns", with
art by Frank Bolle; Tom Mix in "The Wedding Present
Murder" (drawn by Carl Pfeufer & John Jordan); Rocky
Lane in "Dead Man's Revenge", with art by Tom Cooke;
and one last Ed Good- drawn Monte Hale gripper, "Rustler's
Roundup". Plus, short features like Roy's Western Scrapbook
& Roaming The Range with Bob Colt, and an 8-page photo
section starring Sunset Carson. All authentic, vintage,
full-story reprints, reproduced perfectly in stunning black & white.
104 pages, black & white with color covers. Standard comic book
size, saddle stitched. Printed in 2006
Price: $6.95
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Best of the West #58.
Characters cover featured and including stories, are Red Mask,
Durango Kid, Haunted Horseman, and Latigo Kid. 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
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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
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Best of the West #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 Durano Kid tussles with
"Dead-Shot Debby", drawn by Fred Guardineer, comic's
original
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
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Best of the West #39.
Everybody's #1 cowboy star,
Roy
Rogers headlines in "The Temptation of Sam McGraw", illustrated
by the master of panel art, Alex Toth. A classic from the best
of the strip's run, originally seen in the pages of Roy's Dell
Publications comic book. Then, it's Wild West wonderment drawn
by Joe Certa and John Belfi, as Magazine Enterprises' The
Durango Kid stakes his life to win- "The Battle of the Dams"!.
Tim Holt and his alter ego, Red Mask; take on "The Kiowa Kid",
with art by Frank Bolle. Then, it's a Dick Ayers tour-de-force
on The Original Ghost Rider, The Haunted Horseman, as he stalks
"The Looking Glass Killer"!! Finally, Fawcett Comics
Golden
Arrow finds himself knee-deep in "The Great Reward Swindle",
drawn by Ruben Moriera. Cowpoke classics in sharp, crisp
full-story reprints, from the heyday of the Western Comic book.
44 pages, black and white with color photo covers (front AND
back), in standard Best of the West size and format. Printed in
2004
Price: $6.95
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Best of the West #36.
Gene Autry Special!! Yes, that's
right- for the first time in any AC Comics publication, the head
honcho of The Melody Ranch rides onto the scene, with a great
full-color photo cover, crisp and clean full-story reprint from
his vintage Dell Comics series, and text article and photo tour
of the Autry Museum in Los Angeles by correspondent Jeffrey M. Bembaron. But that's not nearly all, as great comics adventures
of all your regular BOW favorites are here, too; as Joe Certa
illustrates "One Night of Death", starring The Durango Kid;
Tim
Holt headlines in "The Desert Robbers" -drawn by Frank Bolle,
and Dick Ayers puts brush to paper to contribute "The Ghost's
Apprentice", a top-flight classic Haunted Horseman (the original
Ghost Rider) tale. 44 big pages, black and white with color
covers, 9 7/8" X 6". Printed in 2003.
Price: $6.95
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The Hand of Zorro #1.
Another epic adventure of
El
Zorro, The Fox, as illustrated by Everettt Raymond Kinstler,
originally published by Dell in the 1950's. Ladrones, dreaded
highwaymen of the lonely roads of Alta California, strike terror
across the territory. Investigations by Don Diego de la Vega
ferret out their secret leader, the Marquis de Rigos, and it is
left to the black-clad swashbuckler, El Zorro, to bring this
would-be despot to justice! As an extra feature, the pulp
magazine history of El Zorro is covered in an article entitled
"Zorro Rides Again!" penned by pulp expert Tom (Fading Shadows)
Johnson- and a fan letter from artist Ray Kinstler himself!! 36
pages, black and white with color covers, standard comic book
format. Printed in 2002.
Price: $5.95 |
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BEST OF THE WEST #33.
Zorro, legendary masked avenger of
Old California, crosses swords with the fat sergeant to learn
the secret of "Garcia's Package!", by Warren Tufts. A strange
house in the desert, haunted by violence, unlocks its terrible
secret when The Durango Kid comes knocking at "The Mansion of
Murder!" by Fred Guardineeer. Foul murder lurks in tall timber
country as the shadow of a killer falls across the Haunted
Horseman when "Terror Travels North!" by Dick Ayers. A young
medic's career heads for ruin until Tom Mix solves "The Doctor's
Dilemma!" by Carl Pfeufer. Redmask of the Rio Grande dares stand
alone against crooked rurales to challenge "Terror Over The
Border!" by Frank Bolle. It's great Western action both North
and South of the border, in great Golden Age reprints originally
seen in comics from Dell, Magazine Enterprises and Fawcett. 44
pages, black and white with color covers. Printed in 2002.
Price: $6.95 |
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These Western pages are published
by AC Comics and all editorial content is copyright 2004, AC Comics.
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