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Issue: Western Fighters #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1948
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Issues: #1 of 43 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Edward Cronin
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: western
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Pages: 1
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Have Fun! Get Laughs..

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Hollister-White Co.
Synopsis: How to play harmonica in 15 minutes, learn to dance, crazy mirror and much more to order by mail.
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Black Bart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Barry (signed)
Inker(s): Dan Barry (signed)
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Black Bart (road agent) [Mr. Boles]; Sheriff Bradley; Detective Hume
Synopsis: The story of Black Bart, the terror and poet of the west. He robbed the rich to feed the poor, which hardly is a sin, And poems also did he write before he were put in.
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Pages: 8
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Killers Die Too!

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Writer(s): Dick Wood (credited)
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Genres: western
Character(s): Ben Thompson (gunman); Wilson (bartender); King Fisher (gunman)
Synopsis: The life and death of a notorious gunman called Ben Thompson, based on a true story.
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Belle Starr

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Genres: western
Character(s): Belle Starr (gun girl); Cole Younger; Jesse James; Jim Reed; Sam Starr
Synopsis: A true story of the original gun girl of the west.
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Pages: 6
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Bill Mayfield

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Genres: western
Character(s): Bill Mayfield; Henry Plummer; Ben Grees (gambler); Cynthia; Cherokee Bob (barowner); Marshal John Blackburn
Synopsis: Bill Mayfield starts as a member of Henry Plummer's gang, and is later hanged in Idaho for more than five killings.
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Character(s): Pingo Pete; Margy Jones; Si Jones
Synopsis: A gunman with an ugly sense of humor and entertainment, which ended when he was hung by an angry mob.
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Vanishing Kid

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Genres: western
Character(s): Ernest Cashel
Synopsis: An American badman goes to Canada where he commits murder, but is caught by the Mounted Police and hanged for his murders.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Rudy Palais is credited to Hillman westerns in Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and compared with other credited stories in Phantom Lady #17, this is similar. The ugly faces, spooky hands, and one peculiar item he has in several of his stories: the heavy beams seen across the ceiling.
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Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Tucson Tom
Character(s): Tucson Tom; Sweeney; Tough Guy
First Line: Nice quiet day, Sweeney!
Synopsis: The guy is so big and tough that it hurts, but Tucson Tom can certainly do something about that.
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Justice by Vigilante

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Genres: western
Character(s): Harry Plummer; George Brown; Alex Carter
Synopsis: The vigilante committee thinks Sheriff Plummer is doing his best, but it's too big a job for one man. They begin their task but find out the sheriff himself is behind all the killings and robberies, so they hang him too. Based on a true story.
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Disclose Notes: Elias is credited to Hillman westerns in Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and compared with other credited stories in Black Cat #11, this is similar. Faces with marked lips, baggy trousers with criss-crossing black folds.
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Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Tucson Tom
Character(s): Tucson Tom
First Line: Wow!! We're in a tight spot, Podner...
Synopsis: Tom has a hard time getting to the cinema.
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Amazing All-Over Rain-Cover Bargain

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Surplus Sales
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America's Greatest Zipper Billfold Bargain

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Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart
Synopsis: Billfolds printed in breath taking colors by mail order.
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