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Issue: Best of the West #1
Publication Date: January 1998
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Issues: #1 of 71 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $4.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Black
Disclose Notes: These early issues of BOTW are a smaller 7 inches by 7 inches in size. Rather than reduce the original page size to fit, the pages have been rearranged, using less panels per page, leaving the art large and the page count longer. I only mention this to explain why the page counts here might not match their original appearances.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
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Binding:  
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Frank Frazetta; Frank Bolle
Inker(s): Frank Frazetta?; Frank Bolle?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]; Durango Kid; Redmask
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBest of the West #6 [A-1 #70] published December 1952
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]one character has been dropped from the original cover, and the riders at the bottom have been added
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Howdy, Pards! (an introduction)

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A brief introduction with photos of Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid and Tim Holt.
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The Son of the Sheriff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Certa
Inker(s): John Belfi
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Durango Kid
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCharles Starrett as the Durango Kid #18 published August 1952
was Son of the Sheriff [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Green Men from Horro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]
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From Content Item: FlagTim Holt #31 published August 1952
was The Green Men from Horro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Three Deaths of Redmask

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Bolle
Inker(s): Frank Bolle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Tim Holt [as Redmask]
Character(s): Redmask [Tim Holt]
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From Content Item: FlagTim Holt #31 published August 1952
was The Three Deaths of Red Mask! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby ? (original story); Bill Black ? (new history)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Lance Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kirby [as Lance Kirby] (signed)
Letterer(s): Jack Kirby
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Lightnin' and the Lone Rider
Character(s): The Lone Rider [Jim Larrimore]; Dr. Chuda, the Deathless One; Caleb Stone (villain); Stone's unnamed henchmen; unnamed female captive
First Line: The Lone Rider sits stunned and awed as Dr. Chuda calmly reveals that he is 50,000 years old!
Synopsis: Caleb has his henchmen capture the Lone Rider's girl. Dr. Chuda knocks out The Lone Rider to take care of Stone himself.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagFamous Funnies #76 published November 1940
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes a brief written history of the Lone Ride character and comic, presumably written by Bill Black.
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To Touch is To Die

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTim Holt #37 published August 1953
was To Touch Is to Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Photo of Charles Starrett as The Durango Kid

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Mystery Riders of the Great Southwest

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Haunted Horseman [aka Ghost Rider]; The Durango Kid; Redmask
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The back cover, the three characters, in full color.

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