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Issue Details

Issue #65
Published June 1952
Frequency every other month
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Jerry Iger (Art Director)

Cover Details - "Navaho Gold"

Characters Firehair
Genre western
Pencils ? (Iger Shop)
Inks ? (Iger Shop)
Notes JV notes some simlarities in the background figures to Lee J. Ames. Curious.

8 page Firehair story "Whip Wingo, the lone hand trader, called himself..."

Characters Firehair [Lynn Cabot]
Genre western
Script ? [as John Starr]
Pencils August Froehlich; Bob Lubbers
Inks August Froehlich; Bob Lubbers
Notes Lubbers was responsible for the faces in the original. Backgrounds have been added here by a new artist - probably part of the Iger Shop. There is no relation in EITHER story to "Navaho Gold" - the title shown on this cover.
Reprinted from Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1941 series) #30 [The ART is reused. It has been collaged into the service of a new story that has NO bearing on the original ten page story from August 1946]

4 page Famous Fighters filler Captain John Smith ["The year: 1608. The place: Virginia. And with..."]

Characters Captain John Smith
Genre adventure
Script ?
Pencils Lou Cameron (signed)
Inks Lou Cameron (signed)
Reprinted from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #61 (April 1949)

2 page text story "Last Secret"

Genre science fiction
Letters typeset

4 page Suicide Smith story "Through the hills of North Korea, enemy armor..."

Genre war
Script ? [as A.A. Carruthers]
Pencils John Belcastro (signed)
Inks John Belcastro (signed)
Notes They didn't even get the "A.E. Carruthers" house name correct.

1 page filler "Men on Other Worlds"

Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Wendell Grimm]
Notes Appears to be material reprinted from various Planet stories with some new unifying text added. Possibly some of this is early Murphy Anderson.

4 page The Eye story "It started in California...at the Simplex aircraft..."

Genre crime
Script ? [as Joe Leiner]
Pencils Frank Frollo
Inks Frank Frollo

5 page Cowboy Bob story "Saddle-Rock Mesa. Up in the hills back of..."

Characters Cowboy Bob
Genre western
Pencils Ken Battefield?; ? (Iger Shop)
Inks David Heames?; [shop]