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Issue: Bill Boyd Western #12
Publication Date: March 1951
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Issues: #12 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): V. A. Provisiero
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
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Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Wagon Train Massacre

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Bill Boyd
Character(s): Bill Boyd (photograph of William Boyd); Midnite (horse)
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Pages: 1
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Deputy for a Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Elkan
Inker(s): Max Elkan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Bill Boyd
Character(s): Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Sharkey (thief); Jack (cowboy); Griff (cowboy)
Synopsis: Bill acts as deputy sheriff for one day and has to deal with the theft of a diamond ring.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Elkan is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by the faces, and long hair in the neck and under the hat in front. The horses are much more realistic than the ones credited as uncertain to Pete Riss.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Big Bart and Little Lew
Character(s): Big Bart; Little Lew
First Line: Listen, Big Bart...
Synopsis: Bart and Lew are partners, and Bart wants some money.
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Pages: 2
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Make a Treasure Chest

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Scotch Cellophane Tape
Synopsis: How to make a chest for Top Secret stuff with Scotch tape.
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Quiz
First Line: See how many you can answer correctly...
Synopsis: Questions and answers.
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Pages: 0.5
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A Wise Spender

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Howard Boughner ?
Penciller(s): Howard Boughner ?
Inker(s): Howard Boughner ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Sagebrush
Character(s): Sagebrush; Tad Benton
Synopsis: Sagebrush is flat broke.
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Pages: 1
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The Deadly Spurs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Elkan
Inker(s): Max Elkan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Bill Boyd
Character(s): Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse)
Synopsis: Bill finds a dead rooster in the road, and it means cock fighting is going on despite the fact that it's against the law.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Elkan is credited on pencil and ink on Bill Boyd by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by the faces, and long hair in the neck and under the hat in front. The horses are much more realistic than the ones credited as uncertain to Pete Riss.
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Pardner

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The United States Time Corporation
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse)
Synopsis: Here's your shockproof Hopalong Cassidy Wrist Watch.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Brilliant Bryant
First Line: Howdy, Bryant!
Synopsis: Bryant has found out why the nose is in the "scenter" of the face.
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The Prairie Hostage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charlie Tomsey ?
Inker(s): Charlie Tomsey ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): A Crowbait Story
Character(s): Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Crowbait (peddler); Leary (robber)
Synopsis: Crowbait is forced at gunpoint to hide two robbers trailed by a posse, in his wagon.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Tomsey is credited on westerns for Fawcett by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and some square jawed faces, and movements looks like his credited work on "Lance O'Casey" in Whiz Comics #134 and #136. Probably his work. Artwork similar to "The Ominous Door" story in Bill Boyd #5.
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Strained Relations

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Brainy Buster
Character(s): Brainy Buster; Oswald
Synopsis: Oswald is screaming through a screen door.
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Pages: 0.66
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For The First Time In A Comic Magazine

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Captain Video
Character(s): Captain Video
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Pages: 0.34
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Penciller(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
Character(s): Pud; Tommy
First Line: Gee, Tommy...
Synopsis: Skating contest.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Thompson is credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who on both writing and drawing this series.
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Tea Hee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wilbur the Waiter
Character(s): Wilbur
Synopsis: The man wants brewed tea, not tea in bags, as they get stuck in his throat.
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Pages: 0.5
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Stripling's Luck

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rickhard Kraus (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Jim Partlow; Clegg Baker (mine owner); Jed Partlow
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The Wagon Train Massacre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Elkan
Inker(s): Max Elkan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Bill Boyd
Character(s): Bill Boyd; Midnite (horse); Brett Mosley (crooked store owner); Chief Big Beaver
Synopsis: A wagon train is attacked by white killers and blamed on the Indians.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Notes as for the first story by Elkan.

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