| Issue | #2 |
| Published | 1998 |
| Cover Price | 4.95 USD |
| Pages | 44 |
| Editing | Bill Black |
| 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. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Bill Black? |
| 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. |
| Reprinted | from Best of the West (Magazine Enterprises, 1951 series) #7 [A-1 #76] [splash page from "Book of Doom," included in this issue] |
| Notes | Inside cover. |
| Genre | western |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Certa |
| Inks | John Belfi |
| Reprinted | from The Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 Series) #9 |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Frank Bolle |
| Inks | Frank Bolle |
| Reprinted | from Tim Holt (Magazine Enterprises, 1948 Series) #37 |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Bill Black |
| Notes | With Black credited as the inker here, I'm guessing this is a reworking of the original story? |
| Reprinted | from Best of the West (Magazine Enterprises, 1951 series) #7 [A-1 #76] |
| Script | Bill Black |
| Notes | Editorial by Black, with a letter of comment from Dick Ayers. |
| Genre | western |
| Script | Bill Black? |
| Pencils | Dick Giordano |
| Inks | Vince Alascia |
| Notes | Credited as "Dialogue by Bill Black"? |
| Reprinted | from Rocky Lane Western (Charlton, 1954 Series) #71 |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
| Notes | Back cover. |