Masked Raider (1955 Charlton) comic books

Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Frank Bolle and Mike Sekowsky. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. When sheriff's daughter Polly pursues a stagecoach robber and gets herself captured, mild-mannered law student Les Wilcox rides to the rescue as the Masked Raider. Les reminisces about how he met the golden eagle Talon and became the Masked Raider. Pistol Packin Pattie stops an attack on the mayor with her sharp eyes and sharp shootin'. Plus true facts about cowboy hats and knot-tying on the range. Masked Raider and Talon the Golden Eagle; Flying Eagle; The Boy and the Eagle; Slim Jim and Roly-Poly; The Prince Albert Kid; The Sentinel; Cowboy Hats; Pistol Packin Pattie Has a Block Party!; Knots. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mike Sekowsky. Stories and art by Leon Winik and Mike Sekowsky. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Train robbers trap Masked Raider in a dead-end box canyon, but Talon's nest is nearby. Buck and Huck get into a lyin' contest. Lawman Boot Baker goes on vacation to Abilene, where the Polka Dot Gang just happens to be holed up. For Talons Nest; Huck and Buck; Pony Express Rider; Boot Baker: Polka Dot Gang; The Huntsman; How Well Do You Know Your Country? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Stan Campbell and Ralph Carlson. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. A gold shipment is transported in a gold-painted stagecoach, making it an irresistible target for robbers. Rocky Lane rides to protect a farmer who is receiving mysterious threats. Dusty gets into a prolonged argument over whether Paul Revere's horse was black or white. The Golden Coach; Gopher Face: The Mad Hatter!; Rocky Lane: The Hoax!; Dusty: A Study in Black and White!; The Gold Bandits; The Innocent Outlaw. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Stan Campbell and Ralph Carlson. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. With Talon's help, Masked Raider tames a wild horse and names him White Star. The Masked Raider discovers how rustlers are making away with cattle from the Maggery Ranch. Plus the meanings of the cowboy terms bronco, dogie, and wrangler. Nice cover by Stan Campbell. White Star; Range Talk; Duke of Chaos; Distant Minded; Devil's Peak; Muttering Murtagh: Sleepy Talk; Rustler's Paradise; Dee Dickens: The Doctor's Dilemma. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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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.

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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 and Charles Nicholas. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. When lawyer Les Wilcox's client can't prove Skin Anson is rustling his cattle, the Masked Raider sets out to get some evidence. Marshal Wyatt Earp doesn't need his guns to keep King Ryan and his men from taking over the town - all he needs is a whisper. Movie Western hero and whipmaster Lash LaRue must stop outlaw Twist Malen from taking over the town. Flame Canyon; The Badge!; Wyatt Earp: The Kings Ransom; Pony Rustlers; 3 Got Away; Lash LaRue: Trigger Proud; Gunsmoke Ranch. 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 and Vince Alascia. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Owlhoots capture the Masked Raider and his paramour Polly, the sheriff's daughter. The outlaw Meggs accidentally creates a conflict between the Masked Raider and his secret identity, lawyer Les Wilcox. Western movie hero Tex Ritter and his horse Fury follow the dusty trail of an escaped convict. A Date With Destiny; The Unknown Friend; Fur Forts; Tex Ritter: Brandon's Escape; Vigilante Terror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and Bill Molno. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Railton tips off the sheriff to where the Masked Raider hides his horse and eagle, but Railton has an ulterior motive. Polly rides out to meet the Masked Raider, but the Younger brothers tail her and set up an ambush. A rustler escapes during his trial and injures Les Wilcox in the process, giving Les and Polly a moment for romance at last. Rustler's Snare; Bushwhacked Romance; Texas Rangers in Action: Outlaw Territory; Shooting Sam Smith; Doubled Danger; The Prize Is Death. 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.

Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Charles Nicholas, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Tony Tallarico. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. A con man uses a trained wolf to scare landowners into selling him their land, but the Masked Raider has a trick or two of his own. Les the lawyer figures out a way to out-con a con man who's selling worthless mine stocks, and without even putting on his Masked Raider mask. MR's old enemies Cap Lewitt and the Gundy Brothers set out to send the Masked Raider to a watery grave. 1/2 Share of Murder; Lobo; Wild Bill Hickok: Blast Out; Loot-est-senko; Tightrope of Fear. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and others. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. When a rancher sees the Masked Raider pursuing the outlaws who stole his year's profits, he thinks the masked man is in on the robbery. Polly gets jealous when Les Wilcox starts spending time with stage star Angela Crane, but Angela just wants the Masked Raider's help in finding her missing brother. The Masked Raider sets out to find the mysterious Robin Hood of the West known as the Catamount Kid - but the Kid gets the drop on him first. Dead or Alive; The Beautiful Lure; The Deadly Outlaw; Texas Rangers in Action: Gunman's Mistake!; The Last Draw; The Saga of the Catamount Kid! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Bill Molno and Vince Alascia. Western adventure featuring a masked hero with a secret identity and a golden eagle for a sidekick. Lawyer Les Wilcox faces a hopeless case of defending an innocent man in front of a crooked judge and a bought jury, so he changes to Masked Raider to balance Justice's scales. The Raider is captured by beautiful Anne Durell, who blames him for her brother's prison sentence. The Masked Raider joins a hunter in search of a rogue mountain lion, but soon learns which one is the real rogue, in a story with some exceptionally nice art (particularly on the cougar) by Pete Morisi. Trial by Fury; The Unfair Sex; Rough, Tough, and No Drinking; Cousin Joe; The Biggest Heel in Laredo; Track of the Cat. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.