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| Publication | December 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Photo Cover |
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| Cover | Trails of Death |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd |
| Notes | Photo Cover |
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| Comic Story | Trails of Death (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill is in charge of getting a cattle drive to Junction City, past a gang of border rustlers. |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Pete Riss? | Inks: Pete Riss? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Meadow (rustler); Zack Foster (rancher) |
| Notes | Pete Riss is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the inking seems similar to his credited stories on "Kid Eternity", but few of his wedge shaped faces with eyes far apart, as in most of his credited stories in "Adventures Into the Unknown", are present in this story. The horses with large, square snouts and extremely large hooves, are identical to the horses in 4-5 issues in this series. Only Riss and Elkan are credited on Bill Boyd, so these stories could either be Riss, or some other uncredited artist. He had more realistic horses in 1953 than here. |
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| Comic Story | In the Swim (1 page) |
| Featuring | Brainy Buster |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Text Story | Poison Gun (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Rod Reed [as Westbrook Wilson] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Easy Silver Dollars (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gang of counterfeiters are making silver dollars, only they are lead and zinc with a thin coat of silver. |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Hastings (gang boss); Sheriff |
| Notes | Elkan is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by the faces, and long hair in the neck and under the hat in front. The horses are much more realistic than the ones credited as uncertain to Pete Riss. |
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| Comic Story | The Schoolhouse Mystery (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Crowbait is mistaken for an outlaw, who also travels around in a peddler's wagon just like his. |
| Featuring | A Crowbait Story |
| Credits | Pencils: Charlie Tomsey? | Inks: Charlie Tomsey? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Crowbait (peddler); Oscar (school kid); School Teacher; Crooked Peddler |
| Notes | Tomsey is credited on westerns for Fawcett by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and some square jawed faces, and movements looks like his credited work on "Lance O'Casey" in Whiz Comics #134 and #136. Probably his work. Artwork similar to "The Ominous Door" story in Bill Boyd #5. |
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| Comic Story | An Easy Touch! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Hammer Head |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Wright the Writer |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Windy and the Potato Bugs (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Windy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Peace Pact (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A government agent has stumbled onto a plot by Ruma to take to the warpath, and is being killed before he can report it. |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Pete Riss? | Inks: Pete Riss? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); George Hagen (government agent); Chief Hannu; Indian Agent; Ruma (villain) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
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