Crack Western #68

Quality Comics

United States

Published
September 1950
Page count
36
Cover price
0.10 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/204431

Credits

Editing
Harry Stein
Elaine Allen (associate editor)
Gloria Bley (associate editor)
Alfred Grenet (associate editor)
June Andrus (associate editor)
Richard Arnold (associate editor)

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover No title recorded Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
? (photography of Jerome Courtland)

Credits

Art
? (photography)
Colours
? (photography)

Notes

Star of Colombia's "When You're Smiling" 1950. Credits inside front cover.

Show/hide 1. Phantom Town! (Arizona Raines) Comic story, 9 pages

Featuring

Feature
Arizona Raines
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Arizona Raines

Credits

Script
Paul Gustavson
Art
Paul Gustavson
Letters
Paul Gustavson

Notes

Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Show/hide 2. No title recorded (Two-Gun Lil) Comic story, 6 pages

"Shooting high, shooting low, Two-Gun Lil conquers..."

Featuring

Feature
Two-Gun Lil
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Two-Gun Lil [Lil Roberts]; Utt Milney (villain); Nacia Milney (his daughter)

Credits

Art
Pete Riss ?

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Triple Western Pictorial Monthly (Red Circle, 1955 series) #15 (September 1956)
The Masked Outlaw

Notes

Pointed faces with eyes far apart look like Riss, especially the two last pages, but inking makes it uncertain.

Show/hide 3. Silver in Coyote Gap! (Dead Canyon Days) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Dead Canyon Days
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Big Jim Croker (villain)

Credits

Art
Bob Jenny

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Triple Western Pictorial Monthly (Red Circle, 1955 series) #9 (February 1956)
Silver in Coyote Gap
 
Australia
Colt Western Library (Approved, 1955 series) #32 ([February 1958?])
Silver in Coyote Gap

Notes

Art credits from Saltarella.

Show/hide 4. Draw against Death (Arizona Raines) Text story, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Arizona Raines
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Arizona Raines

Credits

Author
Bill Woolfolk
Letters
typeset

Notes

Script credit from Martin O'Hearn.

Show/hide 5. Target for Outlaw Guns! (Frontier Marshal) Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Feature
Frontier Marshal
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Bob Allen (town marshal)

Credits

Pencils
Harry Anderson ?

Notes

The layout and figure movement similar to many of Anderson's credited stories, as in T-Man Comics, Nyoka, and Mr. Scarlet and Pinky, but uncertain. His peculiar lines outside corners of eyes are missing, and he is only on pencils by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Show/hide 6. Suspense! Thrills! Adventure! (Blackhawk) Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Blackhawk

Credits

Letters
typeset

Synopsis

House ad for Blackhawk Comics #33, with art and a cover reproduction


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 22128

Entry created

  • 21/04/2019

Cover added

  • 21/04/2019

Index completed

  • 21/04/2019