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| Publication | March 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Wagon Train Massacre |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd (photograph of William Boyd); Midnite (horse) |
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| Comic Story | Deputy for a Day (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill acts as deputy sheriff for one day and has to deal with the theft of a diamond ring. |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Sharkey (thief); Jack (cowboy); Griff (cowboy) |
| Notes | Elkan is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by the faces, and long hair in the neck and under the hat in front. The horses are much more realistic than the ones credited as uncertain to Pete Riss. |
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| Synopsis | Bart and Lew are partners, and Bart wants some money. |
| Featuring | Big Bart and Little Lew |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Big Bart; Little Lew |
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| Advertisement | Make a Treasure Chest |
| Synopsis | How to make a chest for Top Secret stuff with Scotch tape. |
| Featuring | Scotch Cellophane Tape |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | Questions and answers. |
| Featuring | Quiz |
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| Comic Story | A Wise Spender (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sagebrush is flat broke. |
| Featuring | Sagebrush |
| Credits | Script: Howard Boughner? | Pencils: Howard Boughner? | Inks: Howard Boughner? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Sagebrush; Tad Benton |
| Notes | Script and art credits for this feature identified by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The Deadly Spurs (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill finds a dead rooster in the road, and it means cock fighting is going on despite the fact that it's against the law. |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse) |
| Notes | Elkan is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by the faces, and long hair in the neck and under the hat in front. The horses are much more realistic than the ones credited as uncertain to Pete Riss. |
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| Advertisement | Pardner |
| Synopsis | Here's your shockproof Hopalong Cassidy Wrist Watch. |
| Featuring | The United States Time Corporation |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) |
| Content | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse) |
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| Synopsis | Bryant has found out why the nose is in the "scenter" of the face. |
| Featuring | Brilliant Bryant |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Prairie Hostage (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Crowbait is forced at gunpoint to hide two robbers trailed by a posse, in his wagon. |
| Featuring | A Crowbait Story |
| Credits | Pencils: Charlie Tomsey? | Inks: Charlie Tomsey? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Crowbait (peddler); Leary (robber) |
| Notes | Tomsey is credited on westerns for Fawcett by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and some square jawed faces, and movements looks like his credited work on "Lance O'Casey" in Whiz Comics #134 and #136. Probably his work. Artwork similar to "The Ominous Door" story in Bill Boyd #5. |
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| Comic Story | Strained Relations |
| Synopsis | Oswald is screaming through a screen door. |
| Featuring | Brainy Buster |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Brainy Buster; Oswald |
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| Publisher advertisement | For The First Time In A Comic Magazine |
| Featuring | Captain Video |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain Video |
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| Synopsis | Skating contest. |
| Featuring | Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum |
| Credits | Script: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) | Pencils: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) | Inks: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) |
| Content | Characters: Pud; Tommy |
| Notes | Thompson is credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who on both writing and drawing this series. |
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| Comic Story | Tea Hee |
| Synopsis | The man wants brewed tea, not tea in bags, as they get stuck in his throat. |
| Featuring | Wilbur the Waiter |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur |
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| Text Story | Stripling's Luck (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Richard Kraus (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Partlow; Clegg Baker (mine owner); Jed Partlow |
| Notes | This story is split: page one is followed by the 4-page "Windy" story, then a page of ad/cartoon, and then the second page of the story appears. |
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| Comic Story | Windy and the Powerful Fish! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Windy tells tall tales to convince some fishermen to share their catch with him. |
| Featuring | Windy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Windy |
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| Activity | Quiz |
| Synopsis | 5 historical and scientific questions. |
| Notes | The second page of the "Stripling's Luck" text story appears after this quiz.
The top half of this page is an advertisement for "Hopalong Cassidy Cutlery." |
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| Comic Story | The Wagon Train Massacres (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A wagon train is attacked by white killers and blamed on the Indians. |
| Featuring | Bill Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Brett Mosley (crooked store owner); Chief Big Beaver |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story by Elkan. |
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