Auctions: comic books in 'Cowboy', graded by CBCS

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Sal Trapani and Charles Nicholas. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Lawyer Les is hired for a land dispute so deadly, his secret identity of the Masked Raider must get involved. Lazy Lee is so lazy, even sitting around doing nothing is too much work. Les tries to prove that an innocent ranchhand has been framed for the crimes of the Phantom Outlaw. The Top Stake; Lazy Lee: Man of Action; The Timid Deputy; A Running Conversation; Taking No Chances; The Phantom Outlaw; The Big Holdup! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Dick Giordano, Vince Alascia, Frank Bolle and Charles Nicholas. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Outlaw-turned-folk hero Billy the Kid takes over the Masked Raider's own title, as he finds his famous fast-draw brings trouble, even if his intentions are good. A history quiz about a famous frontiersman. Pistol Packin Pattie is as quick with an insult as she is with a firearm. Terrific cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Billy the Kid: Peace at Any Price; Billy the Kid: Wanted - $10,000 Reward; Wagon Wheels: Its No Use!; Who Am I?; Billy the Kid: Escape; Pay Lode; Pistol Packin Pattie: Face-Saving Job! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Dick Giordano, Vince Alascia, Bill Molno and Charles Nicholas. Western adventure featuring a masked hero and outlaw-turned-folk hero Billy the Kid. When a railroad town is abandoned to outlaws by the railroad, Billy the Kid is the only force for justice who remains. Billy and a blonde are abducted by stagecoach robbers; he's more trouble than they reckoned, but her kind-hearted nature keeps getting in the way. Billy helps a newly-arrived greenhorn who's already acquired some deadly enemies. Also, the final appearance of the Masked Raider in this series; Billy the Kid officially took over the title with issue #9. Billy the Kid: Boom or Bust; Billy the Kid: Poor Billy; The Real Two Gun Smith; Billy the Kid: Six-Gun Protege; The Gold Watch! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Bill Molno. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw Billy the Kid into a folk hero of the Old West. On the day of the big dance, Billy is targeted by an old enemy with a grudge. Cash Leeds hires the deadly gunslingers known as the Trouble Twins to get rid of Billy. When a gambler swindles Billy's friend, Billy dares to play cards to get even. Plus a vintage ad for an "Automatic BB Firing Machine Gun." Billy the Kid: Sworn Enemy!; Molasses Mouth: Ill Health; Billy the Kid: The Trouble Twins; Gopher Face: Fast Eaters!; A Day at Our Ranch; Billy the Kid: The Fifth Ace; Jess Tames: Scoop; Happy Homer. Final issue under this title; series continues as Billy the Kid (1956 Charlton) #9. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia and Sal Trapani. Numbering continues from Frontier Scout Dan'l Boone (1956) #13. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Vengeful outlaws set a trap for the Masked Raider. When Billy the Kid fails to prevent a bank robbery, the banker accuses him of being in cahoots with the robber. Les Wilcox fears that a young boy has figured out his dual identity as the Masked Raider, and everyone he knows could be in danger. Tonight Will Be Different; Billy the Kid: Run for the Border!; Wind Wagon; The Secret; 4 for Violence; Cheyenne Kid Welcomes "Fun With Pop"; Recount in Rannyville! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pat Masulli and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Stories and art by Al Williamson, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia and Sal Trapani. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Outlaws realize that if they want the Masked Raider, they must first capture Talon the eagle. Texas Ranger Hoagy Flint pursues Boze Olney's gang into the waterless, dangerous Rimrock Trail lands, in a story with nice Western art by EC legend Al Williamson. Talon and the Masked Raider come to the rescue when they find an injured man in the desert, circled by hovering vultures. Hostage With Wings; Unbreakable Alibi; Card Cutter; Rimrock Trail; Buzzard Bait. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Bill Molno, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Sal Trapani. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Outlaws escape the Masked Raider and Talon, but they leave their loot behind, so he knows he just has to wait. A criminal abducts Talon the eagle and forces the Masked Raider to go along with his plan. Les Wilcox survives a shooting by Puma Smith with his law book taking the bullets, but no one knows he's the Masked Raider and his law book is bulletproof! Double Ambush; Trail of the Eagle!!; Books vs. Bullets; Running Deer; The Sheriff Who Wouldn't Shoot; The Winner Gets a Cell. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Sam Glanzman, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. When lawyer Les Wilcox must get rustler Yul Crosley freed on a technicality, he changes to Masked Raider to make sure justice is served. Outlaws frame Jim Turner so they can get to the long-forgotten mine buried on his land, but luckily the nearby Masked Raider hears the sound of their explosions. When an outlaw captures the Masked Ranger's horse and eagle, Les Wilcox must risk exposing his secret identity to Polly in order to get them free. Outside the Law; Bluff; Stolen Watch; Caged Eagle; Cheyenne Kid Welcomes "Fun With Pop"; Free the Guilty! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. When an outlaw's gang busts him out in the middle of his trial and takes the judge hostage, the lawyer swiftly changes to the Masked Raider and sets out in pursuit. When homesteaders move in on a powerful rancher's property, claiming it's not legally his, both Masked Raider and his attorney alter ego try to prevent a range war. Outlaws try to drive tenderfoot Langley off the property he inherited after his uncle was murdered by those same outlaws. Bush-Whacker's Trail; Cheyenne Chief Coopers; The Shotgun Army; Owlhoot Trail; Unsolved Mystery. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Morisi and Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Masked Raider and Talon meet their match in Mordine, a safecracker with a trained falcon he employs as an accomplice. Bud and Jeff clash over Bud's cattle drive. The Masked Raider takes it personally when robbers jump a friend and steal his mortgage payment. Violence In the Air; The Captives; Trail Drive; Where Did The Indians Come From?; Talon's Clue. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Morisi and Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and others. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Outlaws plot to trap the Masked Raider in a box canyon with a cattle stampede headed right his way. Land baron Hurd Rankin tries to use his goons to prevent the railroad from going through his land, but they didn't reckon on two-fisted, sharp-shootin' land surveyor Mike Harnett. Stranded in the desert without his horse or eagle, Masked Raider doggedly tracks a fugitive outlaw into the wilderness. Trapped in Knife Canyon; Range Cook; End of Track; Sign of a Man; The Survivor. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Town fibber Charley Nason lets an outlaw captured by the Masked Raider get away, and then he tries to blame the Masked Raider and swing town sentiment against him. When Masked Raider is accused of stealing a horse, he needs the services of lawyer Les Wilcox...the only trouble is, he IS Les Wilcox. Three outlaws have the law pinned down while they loot a judge's safe, but luckily Rocky Lane is nearby to lend a hand. Trackdown; Lawyer, Free Thyself; Powder River; Rocky Lane: Run, Lawman, Run!; Trail's End. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and Ernie Hart. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. The Masked Raider uncharacteristically accepts a financial reward and the town's acclaim, which is a strange sight to Les Wilcox, since he IS the Masked Raider. Les masquerades as a Blackfoot tribesman to get the goods on the rancher who's been harassing the Blackfeet of the valley. A renegade puma attacks Rocky Lane and a settler's kid, but luckily, Rocky's heroic horse Black Jack is around both times to fight the beast. The Hero's Reward; War Medicine; For a Fort; Rocky Lane: Jaws of Death!; Dynamite Trail. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and Tony Tallarico. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Without time to change into the Masked Raider, lawyer Les Wilcox must stop a bank robbery in his civilian identity. When a swindler targets townspeople with phony Spanish land grants, it's up to Masked Raider to reveal the ruse. Owlhoots make Black Jack act crazy, hoping Rocky Lane will be a pushover without his heroic horse. The Perfect Plan; The Sonora Swindle; Cowboy Cal; Rocky Lane: Black Jack's Madness; Turnabout. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Charles Nicholas, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Sal Trapani. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. When the sheriff gathers a posse to chase the Masked Raider, the Raider realizes it's a distraction for outlaws, so he stages a bank robbery to bring the posse home. Outlaws ambush the Raider, steal his horse, and leave him for the vultures, with only Talon the eagle to defend him. Outlaws frame Sonny and rile up the mob against him as a distraction for a bank robbery, but Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok figures out the ruse. Bank Robber; The Long Haul; Bait For the Vultures; Wild Bill Hickok: The Hero and the Heel; Bearded Bart; The Horse Thieves. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Masked Raider #1 (1959 Blue Bird Comics) was a promotional comic book distributed by various shoe stores and published by Charlton Comics. This issue features the legendary Masked Raider in four exciting western tales of adventure: "Outside the Law," "Bluff", "Stolen Watch", "Caged Eagle", and "Free the Guilty" also a side story with Cheyenne Kid in "Fun with Pop". Cover price $0.10.

Masked Raider #4 (1960 Blue Bird Comics) was a promotional comic book distributed by various shoe stores and published by Charlton Comics. This issue features the legendary Masked Raider in three exciting western tales of adventure: "Trapped in Knife Canyon," "Range Cook," and "The Survivor," all with art by Pete Morisi. Back-up story, "End of the Track." 32 pages, full color, 7-in. x 10-in. Cover price $0.10.

Feb 1949. Cover by George Rozen. Western adventure stories by Walker A. Tompkins "Apache Plunder" (featuring Wayne Morgan, the Masked Rider), Nels Leroy Jorgensen "Fill Your Hand, Marshall", A. Leslie, and L. P. Holmes. Illustrations by Al Savitt and Ed DeLavy. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

June, 1949. Cover by George Rozen. Western adventure stories by Walker A. Tompkins "War in Gunsmoke Gap" (featuring Wayne Morgan, the Masked Rider), L. P. Holmes, Jackson Cole, and William Hopson. Illustration by H. W. Kiemle. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Aug 1949. Cover by George Rozen. Western adventure stories by Jud Tally "Corpse Canyon" (featuring Wayne Morgan, the Masked Rider), T. W. Ford "Adios to the Owlhoot", Hal White, Larry Harris, and Walt Morey. Illustrations by Al Savitt and H. W. Kiemle. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Harry Fisk. The Origin of Master Man, art by Newt Alfred; first appearance of Master Man. The Jeweled Crown of Ramistan starring White Rajah. Enter: The Devil's Dagger, pencils by Ken Battefield. The Island of Felicia starring Morton Murch, The Hillbilly Hero, art by Newt Alfred. The Diabolical Dr. Drown starring Shipwreck Roberts, art by Mike Suchorsky. The New Marshal of Big Savage starring Frontier Marshall. Introducing Mr. Clue; a mystery story. Boy Newsreel Reporter starring Streak Sloan, art by Martin Nodel. The Search For Harrington Grey starring El Carim, art by Sven Elven. Showdown With Sidi-Ahmed starring Rick O'Shay. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and others. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres. Master Man, a short-lived Superman expy who was created by childhood doses of "every source of energy known to man," faces the menace called Death, Incorporated. Shipwreck Roberts, courageous diver, investigates a series of mysterious bombings. Magician-hero El Carim uses illusion to battle the Dread Pirates of the Mississippi Delta. Unusual size of issues #1 - 6 accounts for low availability of some issues. Master Man; White Rajah: The Renegade Princess; Devil's Dagger; Morton Murch, the Hillbilly Hero; Shipwreck Roberts; Repaid with Interest; Voice from the Grave; Mr. Clue; Streak Sloan; El Carim; Rick O'Shay; Frontier Marshall. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in.; 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harry Fisk. Stories and art by Ken Battefield, Newt Alfred, Mike Suchorsky, and Sven Elven. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres. White Rajah, who is (you guessed it) a white adventurer in India, must rescue Princess Derissa. Two-fisted American soldier of fortune Rick O'Shay, in Arabia, faces the Horde of Abdul Ben Hassar. The Frontier Marshall (sic) tracks the Jake Trask Gang, suspecting that they're the rustlers targeting nearby ranchers. Unusual size of issues #1 - 6 accounts for low availability of some issues. Master Man; White Rajah; Devil's Dagger; Shipwreck Roberts; The Scar; El Carim Fights the Firehawk; Rick O'Shay; Frontier Marshall. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in.; 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and others. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres. Master Man, a short-lived Superman type, surveys the world from his mountaintop fortress, can see any evil activity instantly, and rise to defeat it. The Devil's Dagger, an early superhero inspired by the Green Hornet, is a crusading reporter with a chauffeur sidekick, a masked secret identity, and a cool car, The Speed Ghost. Unusual size of issues #1 - 6 accounts for low availability of some issues. Master Man; White Rajah; Devil's Dagger; Shipwreck Roberts; The Preacher's Reward; Slap-Dippy; El Carim; Rick O'Shay; Frontier Marshall. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in.; 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and others. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres. Master Man, a short-lived Superman knockoff, faces The Living Death, in his final adventure before the threat of a lawsuit from DC sent the character to Knockoff Heaven. Meanwhile, the Frontier Marshall (sic) series gains a new protagonist, movie cowboy Buck Jones. Two-fisted American soldier of fortune Rick O'Shay fights for "American interests" in Central Africa. Unusual size of issues #1 - 6 accounts for low availability of some issues. Master Man: The Living Death; White Rajah; Pad Foot's Glory; Devil's Dagger; Shipwreck Roberts; Living Proof; El Carim: The Flaming Circle; Rick O'Shay; Buck Jones, Frontier Marshall. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in.; 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Kurt Schaffenberger. The Light That Failed, art by Bill Ward; Captain Marvel, Jr. starring Mancat. Bushwhacked, pencils by Carl Pfeufer, inks by John Jordan; Someone is stealing horses one at a time and Tom Mix thinks that Husky and Gingo are behind it; While out trying to find out what is going on, Tony is stolen and Tom left knocked out; Husky and Gingo find him and decide to get payback for Tom putting them in jail. The Knights of the Jungle starring Nyoka the Jungle Girl. Maddening Mystery text story by Rod Reed. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Captain Marvel, Jr. must save Mrs. Wagner from the most nefarious trap ever to target a boarding-house - a deadly Murphy-bed trap that crushes people into the wall! When hunters steal rare pink elephants from an Indian maharajah, Nyoka makes them wish they'd just hallucinated the elephants. Western hero Tom Mix investigates a double crime. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Bed Mystery; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka the Jungle Girl: The Missing Pink Elephants; Ozzie and Babs: Tennis, Anyone?; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Crooked Work; Tom Mix: The Two-Way Crime. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Bill Ward, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Captain Marvel, Jr. battles a vengeful human panther (who wears a short cape, like that other comics Panther), in a story with art by Torchy artist Bill Ward. Jungle queen Nyoka undertakes a dangerous voyage. Western hero Tom Mix battles a powerful land baron. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Panther Man; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka the Jungle Girl: Perilous Journey; Ozzie: His Catastrophic Career; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Giant from Mars; Dizzy Daisy; Tom Mix: The Crushing Empire. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Ward, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Corrupt sailors "shanghai" new crew members, but they go too far when they abduct Freddy Freeman as their cabin boy, in a story with art by Torchy artist Bill Ward. Jungle queen Nyoka tries to prevent a scientist from being overcome by his greed for a sacred tribal symbol. Western hero Tom Mix must deliver half a treasure map to lawyer Termbley Cooper, but someone doesn't want him to make it there. Capt. Marvel Jr. and the Human Cargo; Dizzy Daisy: Marriage on the Mind!; Ozzie: Lunacy on the Links; Nyoka, the Jungle Girl: The Symbol of Danger!; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Flying Rescue; Tom Mix: Introduction to Disaster. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Captain Marvel Jr. encounters a race of mer-people, who, in grand comics tradition, wish to stay hidden from the surface world. Jungle queen Nyoka is captured by a pygmy tribe that hates outsiders, ever since their chief's ritual diamond necklace was stolen by an explorer. Western hero Tom Mix warns a rancher to move his herds out of the path of a flood, but the rancher has a hidden agenda. Captain Marvel Jr. and The Underwater Mountain Mystery; Willer the Driller: A Vacuum Bloobstutter Story; Ozzie: The Hot Rod Race of the Century; Nyoka, the Jungle Girl and the String of Pygmies; Muscle Hedd: A Big Creep!; Tom Mix: The Storm of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Sivana Jr's latest scheme is to pull off the biggest robbery of all time, but Captain Marvel, Jr. and the entire police force aim to stop him. Jungle queen Nyoka doesn't believe the stories about a river that shrinks people, until she falls in and emerges just eight inches tall. Ozzie gets Babs a real elephant for her Nyoka the Jungle Girl costume, but neither of them knows how to control a runaway elephant. Capt. Marvel Jr.: Calling All Cops!; Dizzy Daisy: Good System!; Muscle Hedd: Again and Again!; Foreign Agents: A Vacuum Bloobstutter Story; Nyoka: The Land of the Diminishing River!; Dizzy Daisy: Wrestling Fan!; Ozzie: The Elephant Escapade; Tom Mix: The Grave of Horrors. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Kurt Schaffenberger. The Deadly Fraud starring Captain Marvel, Jr., script and art by Bill Ward. The Mask of Death starring Nyoka the Jungle Girl. The Meeting On the High Seas starring Ozzie. The Shadows of the Grave, pencils by Carl Pfeufer, inks by John Jordan; While scouting out land for the Governor Tom Mix discovers gold; He intends to stake a claim and then turn over the land to the new settlers that the Governor wants to deed the land to; Unfortunately, Rangy Joe sees him find the gold nugget and he and his two friends attempt to kill him before he can stake the claim. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Monte Hale and the Outlaws in "Camelot Cavalcade," Young Eagle in "The Massacre at Needle Pass," and Mark Swift in "The Time Retarder." Black and white reprints of U.S. stories; 24 pages. No date (late 1950s).

Hopalong Cassidy in "The Shadow of Death"; Rocky Lane in "The Missing Corpse"; and Lash LaRue in "The Patrol Marauders." Two-page Wicky/O'Shawnessy stext story, "Revolutionary Hero." Black and white reprints of U.S. stories; 24 pages. No date (late 1950s).

Final issue of the series (becomes Kid Slade Gunfighter with issue 5). Matt Slade stars in "Shoot-Out at Noon," "Gunsmoke Showdown," and two untitled stories. Back-up story, "Outlaw in Hiding" (script by Stan Lee, art by Ted Galindo). Joe Maneely cover. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover with James Garner and Jack Kelly. (2 photos also inside.) 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Richest Man in Nevada" and "A Bag of Tricks." Back-up story, "The Message." Photo cover in inside front cover featuring James Garner and Jack Kelly. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Roger Moore/Jack Kelly photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Photo cover (Roger Moore & Jack Kelly). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Jack Kelly and Robert Colbert photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Jack Kelly photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.