Best of the West #1
AC Comics
United States
- Published
- 1998
- Page count
- 44
- Cover price
- 4.95 USD
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/328681
Credits
- Editing
- Bill Black
Issue contents
Cover
No title recorded
(Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]; Durango Kid; Redmask)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]; Durango Kid; Redmask
- Genre
- Western-frontier
Credits
- Pencils
- Frank Frazetta
Frank Bolle - Inks
- Frank Frazetta?
Frank Bolle?
1Credits
- Script
- Bill Black
- Art
- ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
A brief introduction with photos of Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid and Tim Holt.
2Featuring
- Feature
- Durango Kid
- Genre
- Western-frontier
Credits
- Pencils
- Joe Certa
- Inks
- John Belfi
3Featuring
- Feature
- Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]
- Genre
- Western-frontier
Credits
- Art
- Dick Ayers
4Featuring
- Feature
- Tim Holt [as Redmask]
- Genre
- Western-frontier
- Characters
- Redmask [Tim Holt]
Credits
- Art
- Frank Bolle
5"The Lone Rider sits stunned and awed as Dr. Chuda calmly reveals that he is 50,000 years old!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Lightnin' and the Lone Rider
- Genre
- Western-frontier
- Characters
- The Lone Rider [Jim Larrimore]; Dr. Chuda, the Deathless One; Caleb Stone (villain); Stone's unnamed henchmen; unnamed female captive
Credits
- Script
- Jack Kirby ? (original story)
Bill Black ? (new history) - Art
- Jack Kirby [as Lance Kirby]
- Letters
- Jack Kirby
Synopsis
Caleb has his henchmen capture the Lone Rider's girl. Dr. Chuda knocks out The Lone Rider to take care of Stone himself.
Notes
Includes a brief written history of the Lone Ride character and comic, presumably written by Bill Black.
6Featuring
- Feature
- Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]
- Genre
- Western-frontier
Credits
- Art
- Dick Ayers
Reprint history
7Credits
- Art
- ? (photograph)
Notes
Inside back cover.
8Featuring
- Feature
- Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]; The Durango Kid; Redmask
- Genre
- Western-frontier
Notes
The back cover, the three characters, in full color.
Notes
These early issues of BOTW are a smaller 7 inches by 7 inches in size. Rather than reduce the original page size to fit, the pages have been rearranged, using less panels per page, leaving the art large and the page count longer. I only mention this to explain why the page counts here might not match their original appearances.
Indicia
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