Buffalo Bill (1950 Youthful) comic books 1955 or before

Stories and art by Gus Schrotter, Robert Q. Sale and Walter Johnson. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Numbering continues from Super Western Comics (1950) #1. Buffalo Bill gains lasting fame as a result of helping the Kansas Pacific railroad bring food to workers in the remote West. Outlaw Jeff Burke may rule Lawless Junction, but when he crosses Wild Bill Hickok and his gal Calamity Jane, they make him regret it. Crack shot Annie Oakley sets out to catch rustlers who framed her friend and save him from being hanged, in an early action-girl story. Plus a look at the movie Western "Colt .45," with photos of star Randolph Scott. The Kansas Pacific; Wild Bill Hickok Tames Lawless Junction; Colt .45; Buffalo Bill's Vengeance; Annie Oakley. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Gus Schrotter, Manny Stallman and Walter Johnson. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. A mysterious masked outlaw prints up flyers of his crimes before he commits them. A redheaded settler named Miss Shapely gets Buffalo Bill to escort a wagon train through hostile territory, but it's carrying a mysterious cargo. Frontier scout Jim Bridger fights his way across the West, discovering the Great Salt Lake in the process. Plus a vintage ad for Western memorabilia, including a Gene Autry guitar, Roy Rogers binoculars, and a Red Ryder air carbine. Buffalo Bill; The Six-Gun Printer; The Range Wars; Concealed Cargo; Jim Bridger and the Powder River Massacre. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by John Sink, Manny Stallman, Richard Case and Stephen Kirkel. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Kiowa chieftain Grey Wolf and his wolf Lobo race to warn his tribe of an impending Comanche attack. Buffalo Bill is enlisted to provide security for railroad workers in hostile territory. Fugitive outlaw Wild Bill Doolin accidentally winds up the sheriff of a lawless Western town. The War Drums of Doom; Grey Wolf: The Call of the Wild; Chief Crazy Horse; Massacre at the Devil's Slide; Wild Bill Doolin: A Date With Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by John Sink, Manny Stallman, Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer and Keats Petree. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Kiowa chieftain Grey Wolf and his wolf Lobo battle outlaws to save a magic charm, as well as the life of beautiful tribesperson White Dove. Buffalo Bill volunteers to escort a doctor through dangerous territory to a plague-stricken town. Kit Carson and Lt. John Fremont set out to explore the Great Salt Lake region in 1843. The Dynamite Trail; Grey Wolf: Magic Charm; Vengeance Trail; Rescue Grizzly Gap; Ghost Dance of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by John Sink. Stories and art by John Sink, Stephen Kirkel, Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer and Keats Petree. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Seeking missing settlers, Buffalo Bill and his sidekick encounter the misshapen natives of Mutant Valley. Rain-In-the-Face prepares to become chief of the Sioux by facing down the rival Gros Ventre tribe. Grey Wolf of the Kiowa tries to protect his tribe's horses from Civil War-era horse thieves. Action-packed cover features bondage art by John Sink. The Twisted Monsters of Mutant Valley; Chief Rain-In-the-Face: The Fighting Sioux; Indian Torture; The Cheyenne Murder Trail; Grey Wolf: Rustlers of Wild Horse Mesa. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Baer and Manny Stallman. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Buffalo Bill must impress a Pawnee tribe with feats of magic to free a captive Kit Carson. When Cheyenne chieftain Roman Nose dons his sacred war headdress, he is impervious to harm, even bullets. To free captive redheaded Sally, Buffalo Bill is aided by the otherworldly spirit of frontier scout Daniel Boone, in a story with some good-girl and bondage art. White Magic; Chief Roman Nose; The Ghost of Daniel Boone; Grey Wolf: The Terror Demon of the Dekotahs. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ed Goldfarb and Bob Baer. Stories and art by Henry Kiefer, Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer and Manny Stallman. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Buffalo Bill is captured by Louis Beal, who proclaims himself Emperor of America from his fantastic stronghold deep in the Canadian wilderness. (The character may be inspired by Louis Riel, later immortalized in comics by Chester Brown.) When the dead rise to demand the Blackfoot tribe make war against the whites, Buffalo Bill suspects shenanigans. Sinister forces try to sabotage the treaty between the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes by impersonating chieftain Grey Wolf, and Grey Wolf must reveal the ruse. The Emperor of America; Arrows of Death; Buffalo Bill - Super Sleuth; The Living Dead; Grey Wolf's Secret Lair. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ed Goldfarb and Bob Baer. Stories and art by Doug Wildey, Henry Kiefer, Stephen Kirkel and Manny Stallman. Western adventure from Youthful Magazines. Buffalo Bill races to find reinforcements for a besieged fort. Ute warrior Swift Deer sets out to prevent Alaskan Russians from invading the site of modern-day San Francisco, in a story that somehow manages to bring Cold War sentiments to the Old West. Kiowa chieftain Grey Wolf battles fortune hunters who have learned the connection between the Kiowas (a Northern tribe) and Aztec gold. The Grim Hand of Death; Swift Deer and the Russian Bear; Wyatt Earp and the Clanton Gang; Grey Wolf and the Sacred Ruby of Amad-Re; Five Deaths. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.