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Issue: All Star Western #72
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #72 of 62 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/03/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Legend of the Lawman!

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Genres: western
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The Line of Stars

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Boomerang Ambush

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Genres: humorous, superhero, western
Character(s): Johnny Thunder [John Tane]
Synopsis: Schoolteacher John Tane (secretly Johnny Thunder) tells his students "criminals are stupid to think they can break the law" and the kids should be unofficial lawmen like Johnny Thunder. His lecture boomerangs when a gang captures John Tane and forces him to dress as Johnny Thunder so they can kill him in public view! Johnny pulls a double-switch to beat the thugs and, with a wounded arm, must fill in as schoolmaster for a week!
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A Sprint in Time Spikes Crime

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First Line: Your turn to bat, Pud...
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Death at Roaring Clouds!

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Genres: western
Character(s): Strong Bow
Synopsis: In Alaska, a chief and his children are set adrift on an ice floe to die over the Roaring Clouds falls. The chief says Strong Bow will save them. The kids say he's just a legend. The chief relates Strong Bow's "origin" about his tests in besting a polar bear, riding a chinook salmon and eagle - just as Strong Bow's vine-arrows rescue them from death over the falls!
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Victory by Deception

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Binky Shows "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

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Raiders of the Dakota Trail!

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Genres: western
Character(s): Lt. Dan Foley; Teddy Roosevelt
Synopsis: Fort Desolation has run out of food when a cattle herd didn't arrive. It was stolen by rustlers, and Lt. Dan is sent to find them. He gets the help of a civilian frontiersman, "Captain Theodore" and his mountain men. Together they scotch the rustlers and save the herd. Foley later gets a note from "Theodore Roosevelt", who's gone east, and thinks he'll hear more of the man in the future.
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Texas Trail-Blazer

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Charley Goodnight
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Firearms of the West

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Legend of a Lawman!

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Genres: western
Synopsis: Storekeeper Wayne goes missing, and "born fumbler" Walt, the nominal sheriff, must find him. He tracks a kidnapper but is wounded in the arm and captured. Wanye cuts loose on his spurs, changes clothes, and goes guns down and fights the bandits - using only one arm! Walt wants to tell the truth about his storekeeper-hero brother, but Wayne won't let him shake the town's confidence. Yet Walt tells a girl, "There's more to Wayne than you think!"
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[untitled]

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Junior Space Pilots on the Beam!

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