Additional Information |
|
Publication | August-October 1959 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
|
Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bat Masterson (photo of Gene Barry) |
|
Synopsis | Preview of first story, "The Tough Crew". |
Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bat Masterson (photo of Gene Barry) |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Five panels with text underneath plus photo of Gene Barry as Bat Masterson. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
|
Comic Story | The Tough Crew (16 pages) |
Synopsis | Bat stops a gang of bullies from harrasing an orphan boy. Later the boy tells Bat that the gang is the same one that robbed a railroad payroll and killed his father. Bat leaves town and has the boy keep a lookout on the bank. That night the boy spots the gang breaking into the bank and at the same time Bat comes back into town to disrupt the operation. |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bat Masterson; Terence O'Rourke |
Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script submitted on February 5, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). |
|
Comic Story | The Treasure Hole (16 pages) |
Synopsis | June Borden comes west only to find her father murdered in a tussle over a gold nugget. Bat has been entrusted with a map to the gold that the prospector drew while dying. She and Bat go to the prospector's camp, but are followed by a pair of claim jumpers. Bat overcomes them and after they leave, he and the girl find a large bag of gold that was stored at the bottom of a seep-spring. |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bat Masterson; June Borden; Shifty Means (villain) |
Notes | Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on February 7, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
|
Comic Story | Apache Pass (1 page) |
Synopsis | Events at Apache Pass. |
Featuring | Landmarks of the Old West |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath. Script submitted March 2, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). |
|
Comic Story | Tombstone (1 page) |
Synopsis | Some of the more famous events that happened in Tombstone, Arizona. |
Featuring | Roaring Towns of the Old West |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Wyatt Earp (cameo); Doc Holiday (cameo); John Slaughter (cameo) |
Notes | Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Script submitted March 2, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). |
|
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 |