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Issue: Buster Crabbe #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1952
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Issues: #4 of 12 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEastern Color
Brand: This Is a Famous Funnies PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Famous Funnies Publications
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Frazetta credits from Greg Theakston's "Frank Frazetta Comic Art Bibliography".
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Your Television All-American Cowboy

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): Al Williamson ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Buster Crabbe
Character(s): Buster Crabbe
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Keith Chandler : Inking credit now given to Frazetta, as the Buster Crabbe face, at least, is clearly his. But the female figure is inked with a finer line, and may be Al Williamson, possibly Angelo Torres, and - least likely - Roy Krenkel.
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The Kansas Killer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Horatio Ross; General Custer; John Larsen; Jim Hendricks
First Line: Horatio Ross, one of General Custer's scouts...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front and inside rear covers. Inside front cover also includes indicia.
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Lead Poison

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Buster Crabbe
Character(s): Buster Crabbe; Whiskers; Marquita; Lon Murdo; Pancho
First Line: Bristling guns held by ruthless killers...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Top Secret

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Buster Crabbe
Character(s): Buster Crabbe; Whiskers; Thunder Cloud [also called Black Cloud]; Esther Brooks
First Line: A spade isn't always a spade...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Art ID based on comparisons of this story with Ulmer's work on Johnny Quick for DC.
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Whiskers Has a Close Shave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): Whiskers; Buster Crabbe
Synopsis: Whiskers falls asleep in the barber's chair and the barber shaves him. Whiskers goes into hiding when he thinks he's killed the barber.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Raiders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Buster Crabbe; Whiskers; Lewis; Ace (crook)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art is signed in bottom right panel on page 1. Unable to read signature. First letter of the name looks like "B".
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Red Cross New Method of Artificial Respiration

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Buster Crabbe
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In Content Item: FlagBuried Treasure #1 published January 1986
as Red Cross New Method of Artificial Respiration [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hi Gang

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Buster Crabbe
Synopsis: Ad for the Buster Crabbe Western Club.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover of comic.

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