Best of the West #36

AC Comics

United States

Published
[June] 2003
Page count
44?
Cover price
6.95 USD
Colour
Black & white
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/328716

Credits

Editing
Bill Black

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled (Gene Autry) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Gene Autry
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Gene Autry (photo)

Credits

Art
? (photograph)
Colours
? (photograph)
Show/hide 1. America's Favorite Singing Cowboy-Gene Autry! (Gene Autry) Illustration, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Gene Autry
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Gene Autry (photo)

Credits

Art
? (photo)
Letters
typeset

Synopsis

Gene holding a pistol and leaning on a fence with his right hand and his left hand on his waist. (front view)

Notes

Inside front cover. Full page publicity still.

Show/hide 2. Best of the West Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword, 1 page

Featuring

Characters
Marshal Steve Autry (photo of Gene Autry); Champion (horse, photo); ? (photo of Justin Aldrich [Jay Aldrich])

Credits

Script
Bill Black [as Wild Bill]
Art
? (photos)
Letters
typeset

Notes

Introduction with photos, including a still from "Rim of the Canyon" (1949).

Show/hide 3. The Bighorn Hunt (Gene Autry) Comic story, 11 pages

Featuring

Feature
Gene Autry
Genre
Western-frontier

Credits

Art
Nicholas Firfires
Letters
Nicholas Firfires

Notes

Three pages cut?

Show/hide 4. One Night of Death (Durango Kid) Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Feature
Durango Kid
Genre
Western-frontier

Credits

Pencils
Joe Certa
Inks
John Belfi ?

Reprint history

First print
United States
Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #2 (December 1949)
One Night of Death!
Also printed
Australia
Mighty Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #47 ([June 1965?])
One Night of Death
Show/hide 5. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys-or-A Day at the Autry Museum Text article, 8 pages

Featuring

Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Gene Autry (photos)

Credits

Author
Jeffrey M. Bembaron
Art
? (photograph)
Letters
typeset
Show/hide 6. The Desert Robbers (Tim Holt [Red Mask]) Comic story, 6 pages
Show/hide 7. The Ghost's Apprentice (The Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider]) Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Feature
The Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider]
Genre
Superhero; western-frontier
Characters
Haunted Horseman; Spectre (horse)

Credits

Art
Dick Ayers
Letters
Dick Ayers

Notes

All references to Ghost Rider have been replaced with "Haunted Horseman" or "the Haunter."

Show/hide 8. "AC Comics presents a classic omnibus of Golden Age..." (Golden-Age Treasury) Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Golden-Age Treasury
Characters
Spy Smasher; Bulletman; Captain 3-D; Green Lama; Mr. Scarlet

Credits

Letters
typeset

Notes

Inside back cover. Promo for Golden-Age Treasury Volume 1, with cover depicted.

Show/hide 9. Terror in the Night! (Black Terror) Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Black Terror
Characters
Black Terror

Credits

Letters
typeset

Notes

Back cover. Promo for "Black's Terror Tales" and Golden-Age Treasury Volume 2, with covers depicted.


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 37150

Entry created

  • 20/07/2008

Cover added

  • 08/08/2014

Index completed

  • 08/08/2014

Last updated

  • 08/08/2014