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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March 1971
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Sol Brodsky; Herschel Waldman

Cover Details - "Let's get 'em men...Death to the Bravados!"

Characters Bravados [Joshua Reno; Jefferson Drumm; Gideon; Hellion [Helen Hawkins]; Charade]
Genre western
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Mike Esposito?

10 page The Bravados story "The Bravados!"

Characters Bravados [Joshua Reno; Jefferson Drumm; Gideon; Hellion [Helen Hawkins]; Charade] (Origin); Melinda Reno (Flashback)
Synopsis The origin of how the Bravados banded together when Jefferson Drumm was attacked by the gang that killed everyone in a small western town.
Genre western
Script Len Wein
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Mike Esposito
Letters Jean Izzo

4 page Billy Nevada [Billy the Kid] story "The Town That Forgot!"

Characters Billy Nevada; Sam Perkins; George Barton; Phil Walcott; Mort Wallner
Synopsis The townspeople of Ulster are frightened by Mort Wallner's gang into acting like they want nothing to do with Billy Nevada when he comes to visit but they get their nerve back when Billy fights back alone against Mort's gang.
Genre western
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes name relettered throughout from Billy the Kid
Reprinted from Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (Toby, 1950 series) #?

2 page Durango Kid text article "The Durango Kid's Western Dictionary"

Synopsis The meaning of the words butte, cowboy, dynamite, elk, fly and guns.
Genre western
Reprinted from Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #35 (April 1955)

7 page Durango Kid story "Dead-Shot Debby!"

Characters Durango Kid; Debby Stone; Mike
Genre western
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer
Reprinted from Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #35 (April 1955) [original title: Dead-Shot Debbie]

7 page Swift Arrow [Straight Arrow] story "The Dynamiters!"

Characters Swift Arrow [Steve Adams]; Joe Lawson; Buck Travis; Steve Adams; Packy; Dusty Gribble; Fury
Synopsis Dusty Gribbles Syndicate steals some dynamite to use to put the Silver Sue Mine out of business. Swift Arrow has to pass through a dangerous swamp with quicksand and make an incredible shot with his bow to stop the dynamite from blowing up the dam and ruining the Silver Sue Mine.
Genre western
Pencils Fred Meagher
Inks Fred Meagher
Notes This is a refeatured, retouched Straight Arrow strip.
Reprinted from Straight Arrow (Magazine Enterprises, 1950 series) #6 (October 1950)

8 page Rio Vegas story "The Two Guns of Rio Vegas!"

Characters Rio Vegas; George Winston; Martha Winston
Synopsis Rio Vegas takes a long fall into a chasm and ends up with amnesia. George Winston tells him that he's his brother and starts to take him into town to get the reward. When he hears that some badhats have seen Rio and plan to kill him he changes his mind and goes back to help him.
Genre western
Pencils Alex Toth
Notes name relettered througout from Billy the Kid?
Reprinted from Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (Toby, 1950 series) #?