Unofficial Western Comics Index

WESTERN COMICS #61

Cover Date: January-February 1957
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1956-10-30

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Joe Giella

Story: "The Gun That Couldn't Miss" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Carmine Infantino
Inks	Joe Giella
Lettering	Gaspar Saladino
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Pow-Wow Smith

Supporting Character(s):

Deputy Pete

Villain(s):

Jaxon and his gang (first appearance for all; poses as a gun salesman to draw Pow-Wow out of town to commit a bank robbery)

Location(s):

Elkhorn

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Second Story: "The Metal Prison!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Joe Giella
Lettering	Milt Snapinn
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Nighthawk

Supporting Character(s):

Nightwind (his horse)

Villain(s):

Two crooks (first appearance for both; believe that Nighthawk is Hannibal)

Comment(s):

This story takes place in the early 1880s.

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Third Story: "The Rodeo Alibi" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Jerry Grandenetti
Inks	Joe Giella
Lettering	Gaspar Saladino
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Rodeo Rick

Villain(s):

Amos Pierce and his partner (first appearance for both; uses the rodeo as an alibi for a bank robbery)

Location(s):

Mountain Gulch (first appearance)

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Fourth Story: "The House with the Red Door" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Art	Howard Sherman
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Wyoming Kid

Supporting Character(s):

Racer (his horse)

Villain(s):

Bart Tyson (first appearance; a ventriloquist who tries to retrieve loot from another robbery)

Location(s):

Silver City (first appearance)

Arroyo Junction (first appearance)

Harmony Gap (first appearance)

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