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| Includes gorgeous Frank Frazetta Dan Brand story. |
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| Publication | April-May 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Illustration | Durango to the Rescue! (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | On the inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Tracks Across the Trail! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Kid and Muley come across a railroad holdup by criminals who are wrecking the engine. As he investigates, the Kid discovers the reason behind these destructive episodes: the cattle ranchers are afraid that the railroads will break up grazing lands and bring in competitors. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Raider (the Kid's horse); Muley Pike; Pete Lawson (villain) |
| Notes | Art Iidentification by Steinar Ådland (December 2010). |
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| Comic Story | Bloody Rails! (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Joe Certa, with his really bad bad-guy faces often showing their teeth in sideview, and broad, funny faces of horses in frontview. Art ID by Steinar Ådland December 2010. |
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| Comic Story | Manhunt! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Durango Kid tracks down and stops a familiar villain, Waring, from blowing up a Union Pacific train trestle the next time a train passes by. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Muley Pike; Waring (villain) |
| Notes | Notice the funny horse face on page 5, and bad guy with teeth showing in sideview on page 2. Some clues to Certa.
Art ID by Steinar Ådland December 2010 |
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| Comic Story | Brothers of the Wilderness (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dan and Tipi have been acting as guides for a group of pioneers pushing their way through the Appalachian Mountains. They stop for the night and a wildcat threatens the life of Ann Cartwright. Saving her, he is asked to give up the way of the Indian and settle down, which prompts a dejected Tipi to leave and return to his own people. Meanwhile, Ann and her father are captured and held for ransom by a group of forest bandits. Tipi returns with some of his tribe to save them and discovers that Dan's answer to giving up his Indian ways was a resounding "no", and so stays on with his best friend. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Dan Brand [White Indian]; Tipi; Ann Cartwright; Mr. Cartwright; Eye (villain) |
| Notes | Script previously credited to "Gardner Fox ?", but Frazetta himself told Robert R. Barrett that "Ray Krank, who was also the editor at Magazine Enterprises, wrote the scripts." ("The Complete Frazetta White Indian" (Vanguard Productions, 2011), page 7). |
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