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Publication | March 1967 | Price: 0.12 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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Cover | The Showdown |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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Comic Story | Born Bad (8 pages) |
Synopsis | When the law catches up with a man for a 15-year-old bank robbery and murder, the man deserts his wife and son. Six years later the bitter boy goes out on his own and becomes a gunslinger with the gang of El Lobo. In a bank robbery in Yuma, the boy finds out El Lobo's secret. |
Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: B-541 |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Josh Hyatt; Frankie Hyatt; Mae Hyatt; Pablo Sanchez; El Lobo |
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Publisher advertisement | Every Issue Jam-Packed with Blazing, Two-Fisted, Six-Gun Action! (1 page) |
Featuring | Charlton |
Notes | Promo for "Charlton Western Group" with cover of Cheyenne Kid #60 depicted, along with the logos for Outlaws of the West, Texas Rangers in Action; Frontier Marshal Wyatt Earp, and Billy the Kid. |
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Text Story | Roy Ralley's Raiders (1 page) |
Synopsis | Roy Ralley's gang stops at general store to stock up before crossing the desert into Mexico. An apparently lazy youth helps load the supplies and water and when the military arrives two days later reveals his ingenious plan for stranding the gang in the desert. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Roy Ralley; Billy the Kid |
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Advertisement | Official Batman Full Color (electric) Projector |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Batman |
Notes | Ad for Batman Projector with "100 Batman superhero photos" available for $1.98 from Charlton Comics, Dept BC-1166, Charlton Building, Derby, Conn. Features Batman logo and the trademark Batman running figure, with a "c National Periodical Publications, Inc, 1966" tag line. |
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Comic Story | The Big Boss (6 pages) |
Synopsis | The owner of a small-town bank in Wyoming engages in theft and corruption in his quest to build an empire, but has it all come tumbling down with a event that occurs in California. |
Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: B-542 |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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Comic Story | Wonderful Portable Gallows (3 pages) |
Synopsis | The crooked sheriff of a small town buys Scotty McCrepe's invention -- a portable gallows. |
Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: B-543 |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Matt Yawkey; Scotty McCrepe |
Notes | Yawkey is described in a caption as having "bright red hair," but his hair is colored blonde. |
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Comic Story | The Incident at Fire Creek (8 pages) |
Synopsis | A peddler goes west with a load of goods, intending to start a general store. He is held up by three outlaws, but his double-barreled shotgun accidentally goes off, killing two and wounding the other. The surviving outlaw takes the man to his boss in Fire Creek to back up his embellished version of what happened, figuring he'd be in big trouble with the boss if he told him the truth. The boss makes the peddler the town's sheriff, thinking he's a gunslinger, but that doesn't work out the way he intended. |
Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: B-517 |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tom Wimbley |
Notes | Story is told in the first person. |
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