| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | January 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Despite the fact that the cover and the first story have the same title, the cover scene happens nowhere in the first story.
Crandall is credited on this cover by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr at Digital Comics Museum. |
| |
| Cover | The Killer with a Thousand Faces |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Arizona Raines; Spurs (his sidekick) |
| Notes | Despite the fact that the cover and the first story have the same title, the cover scene happens nowhere in the first story.
Crandall is credited on this cover by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr at Digital Comics Museum. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Killer with a Thousand Faces! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A master of disguise has escaped from a lunatic asylum and has picked five men for death in his desire for revenge. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Arizona Raines; Thunder (a horse); Spurs; Calico (a horse); Eric Arno (villain) |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. at Digital Comics Museum has Gustavson only on pencils here. However, Terry Gustafson (son of Paul Gustavson) has confirmed Gustavson on script, pencils, inks and letters. |
| |
| Comic Story | Boss Lady! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A woman is out to avenge the murder of her lover and accuses Lil of the killing after finding a piece of her shirt sleeve at the scene of the murder. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lil Peters [Two-Gun Lil]; Bush Peters (killer); Sandy Jones; Rita |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr has Morisi on artwork.
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to Pete Morisi.
Title from reprint in Apache Trail (Farrell, 1957 Series) #2 |
| |
| Comic Story | Range War! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In search of a job, Lash helps the daughter of a rancher killed by rustlers. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Johnny Lash [The Whip]; Cal Morseby (villain); Mrs. Baxter |
| Notes | Pencils:
1) Most probably Sultan on pencils. He is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the horses are identical to those in the Whip story in Crack Western #84. Compare page 5 panel 4 here with page 4 pane 7 in #84.
2) Reed Crandall suggested by Saltarella |
| |
| Text Story | Wildfire (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Brad Tucker; Marcia Robbins |
| |
| Comic Story | Triple Cross (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
