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| The "Crossfire" art is definitely NOT by Russ Manning.
GCD has it wrong, but probably has the art in #7 right. Probably, Tom Gill did the art in #6 as well as #7 and #5. |
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| I'm at a very great disadvantage here, Superman, in that I do not have any examples of definite Tom Gill from 1958 in my collection, so I need to be cautious when I say that this doesn't look anything like the Tom Gill that I'm familiar with up until, say, 1955. This is distorted and grotesque in ways that his art never seemed to be. He drew the Four Color issues of Cheyenne and was drawing The Lone Ranger and, I think, Silver comics during these years as well. This looks to me like someone attempting to draw like Gill, and failing, IMHO. FWIW. My 2cents (|:{> |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February-April 1958 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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| Cover | Crossfire |
| Featuring | Cheyenne |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Cheyenne Bodie (photo of Clint Walker) |
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| Featuring | Cheyenne |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Cheyenne Bodie (photos of Clint Walker) |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Crossfire (14 pages) |
| Featuring | Cheyenne |
| Credits | Pencils: Tom Gill | Inks: Tom Gill? | Letters: John Duffy | Job #: Cheyenne #6-572 |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Cheyenne Bodie |
| Notes | Gill pencils and possible inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Russ Manning. |
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| Comic Story | The Fire Arrows (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Small Bear leads his Cheyenne tribe in search of grass for their horses, only to find the way blocked by Pawnee braves. |
| Featuring | Small Bear |
| Credits | Pencils: Rex Maxon | Inks: Rex Maxon | Letters: John Duffy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Small Bear |
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| Text Story | Would-Be Outlaw (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Tom Gill | Inks: Tom Gill | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | Guns Across the Border (13 pages) |
| Featuring | Cheyenne |
| Credits | Pencils: Tom Gill | Inks: Tom Gill? | Letters: John Duffy |
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| Comic Story | Scouting (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cheyenne |
| Credits | Pencils: Tom Gill | Inks: Tom Gill? | Letters: John Duffy |
| Notes | inside back cover |
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| Comic Story | Trail Cooking (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cheyenne |
| Credits | Pencils: Tom Gill | Inks: Tom Gill? | Letters: John Duffy |
| Notes | back cover |
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