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Issue: Billy West #4

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Publication Date: November 1949

Issue #4
- #1
- #2
- #3
- ✔ #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
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- Bill West

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Issues: #4 of 8 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: Standard Comics

Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (3 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Content Items (10 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Billy West

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Pages: 1

Notes: Line-art depicting Billy West rescuing damsel in distress from outlaws; realistic/romantic art style.

Get the New Billy West Comic Book!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Billy West

Synopsis: Full page of original art promoting the comic; with small cover reproduction. Comic comes with a Billy West cowboy ring, a four color picture of Billy & horse Eagle, membership card & secret cowboy code.

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Pages: 1

Six-Gun Warning!

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

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Feature(s): Billy West

Synopsis: An honest man steps into a rogue's shoes and finds himself on the receiving end of a six-gun warning, but hero Billy rides to his aid.

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Pages: 12

Notes: All comics stories, etc. carry interesting realistic/romantic style artwork, and book is educational. Such books did much to promote cowboys as positive role-model heroes.

Western Twisters

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Multiple single-panels illustrating Western slang terms.
"Coyote" - a cowardly sneak.
"Desert Rat" - a prospector.
"Chow Hound" - one who loves his food.

The Pony Express

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Charles J. Strong

Penciller(s): Charles J. Strong?

Inker(s): Charles J. Strong?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

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Pages: 2

Notes: History of Pony Express covered in two pages of text, with two nice illustrations.

The Mysterious Stranger!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

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Feature(s): Rhoda Trail

Synopsis: Outlaw-fighting newspaper woman for the Sundog Sentinel has her hands full with crooks threatening to dam the water and charge ranchers for it.

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Pages: 7

Join the Billy West Cowboy Club!

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Feature(s): Billy West

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Pages: 1

Notes: "Join the Billy West Cowboy Club!" (similar to inside front cover)

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Feature(s): Roundup with Billy West

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Pages: 1

Notes: One page with illustrations has West talking to readers about cowboy life.
Also a coded message for club members.

Billy West's Birthday Present!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Uncle Dan

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Pages: 7

Notes: Numerous comics of various publishers had a back-up feature with an old man spinning yarns to a couple of young wards-- this is one of them. Snubby and Julie listen eagerly to a tale of "Billy West's Birthday Present." (Becomes second Billy West

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): The Letter Box

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from: Gerald Kalkbrenner, Horace Thomas Gill, Margaret Fite, Linda Shoemaker, Ervin Lewis, Laura Falligant, Bobby Rhodes, Lavetta Braden.