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| Publication | March 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr at Digital Comics Museum has Gustavson on this cover.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Cover | Arizona Ames Tramples on Trouble |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Arizona Ames |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr at Digital Comics Museum has Gustavson on this cover.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Synopsis | The government has opened the Concho Valley Territory for settlement and a colonel and his daughter get into trouble when staking their claim. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Arizona Ames; Spurs; Colonel Reed; Lou Reed; Buckskin (villain, claim-jumper); Loft (villain); Shaggy (villain) |
| Notes | Art credits from JVJ.
Bill Ward ? pencils credit from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. revised to Gustavson by Craig Delich.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | The Dance Hall of Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A US Marshal has been murdered when investigating crooked games in a dance hall. Lil takes a job as a singer to find out who killed the Marshal. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lil Peters [Two-Gun Lil]; Clinton (undercover US Marshal); Higgins (piano player); Weland (proprietor; villain) |
| Notes | JVJ has a doubtful Bryant as penciller. |
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| Comic Story | The Man Afraid of a Saddle (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The blacksmith is a strong and fearless man, but he is afraid of riding horses. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Shaw (blacksmith); Jennie Holden; Pierce Egan (villain); Bullet Bayliss (villain) |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. has Crandall only on pencils, and Roger Hill agrees, but Steinar Ådland believes the inking is so similar to Crandall's inked stories in the Warren magazines of the 60s that this is most probably all his work. |
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| Text Story | The Other Gun (1 page) |
| Featuring | Arizona Ames |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Arizona Ames; Spurs; Lip Groff (villain); Augie Gurger (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Day of Empty Holsters (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | At the anniversary of the town's founding all guns are layed aside and outlaws take advantage of this. |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Kriegstein? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bob Allen (US Marshal); Andy Jackson (judge); Amy Jackson (daughter); Curly (villain); Magpie (villain) |
| Notes | JVJ notes at Digital Comics Museum have these two doubtful pencilers. Inking looks much like the work on many of the Manhunter stories, especially faces. |
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