Firehair Comics #12

Published
July 1951
Page count
24
Cover price
0/8 [0-0-8 AUP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
None
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/1102494

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled (Firehair) Cover, 1 page

"Featuring Firehair and other new thrillers!"

Featuring

Feature
Firehair
Genre
Western-Frontier
Characters
Firehair; Spotted Wolf

Credits

Art
, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Show/hide 1. Untitled (Firehair) Comic story, 8 pages

"Whip Wingo, the lone hand trader, called himself..."

Featuring

Feature
Firehair
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Whip Wingo (villain, dies); Spotted Wolf (son of the Hidatsa chief, Beaver Tail); Firehair [Lynn Cabot]; Tehama; Bird Track; Young Owl

Credits

Writing
, scripter [as John Starr]
Art
August Froehlich, line art
 
Bob Lubbers, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
J. F. Byrne, original Managing Editor
 
S. M. Iger, original Art Director [as Jerry Iger]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1941 series) #65 (June 1952)
No title recorded

Synopsis

Spotted Wolf tries to obtain Firehair for his bride.

Notes

Lubbers was responsible for the faces in the original in Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1942 series) #30 (August 1946), with art edited and re-used for an entirely new story. Backgrounds have been added by a new artist, probably part of the Iger Shop.

Show/hide 2. Untitled (Long Bow) Comic story, 10 pages

"Coups!"

Featuring

Feature
Long Bow
Characters
Fox Foot, Long Bow; Big Knife (villain, dies); Grey Squirrel; Joseph; Evening Star; Joe

Credits

Writing
, scripter [as Capt. Stuart Kerrigan]
Art
, line art
Text
, letterer

Reprint history

First print
United States
Long Bow (Fiction House, 1951 series) #5 ([Winter] 1951)
The Young Captives of Ambush Trail

Synopsis

Big Knife, one of the chiefs of the Crow, kidnaps Fox Foot and Long Bow (of the Blackfeet) and Grey Squirrel (of the Pawnee).

Show/hide 3. Untitled (Ghost Gallery) Comic story, 5 pages

"'Don't go, girl,' the old woman begged..."

Featuring

Feature
Ghost Gallery
Genre
Horror-suspense
Characters
Aunt Meg; Mary; Charles, Sam Baxter

Credits

Writing
, scripter [as Drew Murdoch]
Art
Jack Kamen, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Claude E. Lapham, original Editor
 
S. M. Iger, original Art Director [as Jerry Iger]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #159 (May 1952)
No title recorded

Synopsis

Mary pays attention to her aunt's warning instead of eloping with Charles. Years later, she and her husband, Sam, see Charles being hanged as a "highway mask" (highwayman).


Status

This issue includes help from

  • Andrew

AusReprints ID

  • 74145

Entry created

  • 20/04/2021

Cover added

  • 20/04/2021

Index completed

  • 26/06/2021

Last updated

  • 26/06/2021