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Issue: All Star Western #81
Publication Date: February 1955
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Issues: #81 of 62 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/05/1954
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Script and art credits for fillers verified from DC records of Nelson Bridwell.
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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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Sign of the Flaming Arrow!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Trigger Twins
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Pages: 1
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): My Greatest Adventure
First Line: Now- for the first time, you can share the world's most exciting exploits...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the inside front cover. Includes a reproduction of the cover to My Greatest Adventure #1.
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The Sign of the Flaming Arrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Trigger Twins
Synopsis: The local Cheyenne plan an uprising once a renegade, Bear Claw, arrives with a famed "flaming arrow", a flint arrowhead symbolic of victory. Walt ambushes Bear Claw, ineptly, and Wayne must save him. But Walt is captured and tied to a stake in a war dance. Wayne disguises as an Indian and gets close. Yet no one can find the flaming arrow - until it falls out of Wayne's holster at home!
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In Content Item: FlagSeriemagasinet #5/1958 published April 1958
as Den flammende pil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: 1) Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. 2) A diagram shows the secret "Trigger Twins" cellar with spare costumes and hidden stable under Wayne's store.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tootsie Roll
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Pages: 1
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Binky's Special Christmas Quiz "Christmas in Many Lands!"

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion, teen
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Pages: 1
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Prisoner of the Magic Horn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Strong Bow
Synopsis: A shaman blows a magic horn that summons Strong Bow, but the "hero" steals furs and wampum. The real Strong Bow arrives, waylays the shaman, but is strung up by a trap to be shot with arrows by disbelieving tribesmen! Fast thinking and fast arrows spring Strong Bow so he can expose his evil double. The magic horn will be cast into a deep lake "to lie concealed for all time!"
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In Content Item: FlagSeriemagasinet #12/1957 published December 1957
as Det magiske hornets fange [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTomahawk #2/1975 published February 1975
as Magiska Hornets fånge [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Nice car!
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From Content Item: FlagBatman #39 published February 1947
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 0.5
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Pages: 0.5
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Ridin' and Ropin'

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Tex
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In Content Item: FlagSeriemagasinet #1/1958 published January 1958
as Fanget av egen lasso [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Blue-and-the-Gray and the U.S.A.!

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Genres: western
Synopsis: Tracking renegade Indians, Lt Dan Foley is peeved that two "Vuh-ginian" and "Connecticut Yankee" troopers continue to fight the Civil War. When Foley calls for volunteers, they dare each other to scale a cliff, start an avalanche, and split the Indian forces in two while Foley captures the leader. The rivals shake hands. "Just remember you're all part of the U.S.A!"
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The Phantom Gold Mine

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Pages: 2
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Silver Badge of Courage!

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: A short account of the Graham-Tewksbury feud.
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Pages: 1
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Johnny Thunder vs the Tarantula!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Johnny Thunder
Character(s): Johnny Thunder [John Tane]; Tarantula
Synopsis: Johnny Thunder rides into a town to learn that "Johnny Thunder is tanglin' with the Tarantula" across town! JT rides to a hay wagon fight - and is mobbed by thugs hidden under the hay. The Tarantula (an ordinary gunman, not costumed) wants to kill JT in a "fair fight" to encourage other gangs to capture towns. But Johnny jumps off the building, slashing his bonds, and fights "like a whirlwind" to stop the gang, even rescuing the Tarantula from a burning hay fire!
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Pages: 5.67
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cheerful Card Company
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Motor's Auto Repair Manual
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fashion Frocks, Inc.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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