Auctions: comic books in 'Western'

44 Western Magazine (1937-1954 Popular Publications^) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 GD/VG 3.0

All Star Western (1970) 11 VG+ 4.5

Giant-size issue. Final issue of the series (title continues as Weird Western Tales). 2nd appearance Jonah Hex in "The Hundred Dollar Deal!" Script by John Albano, art by Tony DeZuniga. El Diablo stars in "Satan's Sanctuary." Script by Sergio Aragones and Len Wein, art by Gray Morrow. Reprints: Pow-Wow Smith stars in "The Buffalo-Hide Bandits!" (art by Carmine Infantino) and "Bat Lash" (script by Sergio Aragones and Denny O'Neil, art by Nick Cardy). DeZuniga cover. Cover price $0.25.

Billy the Kid (1956 Charlton) 30 FR/GD 1.5

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Sal Trapani, Charles Nicholas, Bill Molno and Vince Alascia. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero of the Old West. Billy crosses the border to rescue a friend who has joined a Mexican bandit gang. Billy is elected town marshal to unseat the previous marshal, a bully who rules by force. When an outlaw gang sets out to free their leader from jail, the Masked Raider decides to intervene. The Chihuahua Chieftain; The Tough Guy; The Hopeless Ones; Masked Raider: The Escape; Trouble Called. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Billy the Kid (1956 Charlton) 49 GD+ 2.5

Staple rust/migration.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno, Jon D'Agostino, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero of the Old West. Billy pursues a stolen herd of cattle into Mexico and encounters Seguro and his band of Native rebels. A Texas Ranger goes undercover as a clerk to catch outlaws, but when they escape prison, they're looking for him. And a comics biography of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Death Rides the Southwind; Black Bart the Highwayman; A Bad Habit; The Marshal and the Prisoner; Crazy Horse; Marshal with a Mask. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Black Cat Comics (1946-1951 Harvey) 7 FN- 5.5

Edited by Leon Harvey. Cover by Lee Elias. Black Cat in "Water-Skis Whipping" (art by Lee Elias), His Highness the Duke of Broadway in "Topsy Turvy Tavern" (art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby), the Vagabond prince in "Death-Trap De Luxe" (art by Simon/Kirby), the Demon in "Too Cold For Crime." 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Ghost Rider (1950 Magazine Enterprises) 7 CBCS 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #23-06D186D-013

(A-1 Comics #51) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #51. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. With this issue, the series takes on horror elements to fit with the horror trend in 1950s comics. A cursed Native tomb seems to be guarded by a winged serpent whose bite means death; The Ghost Rider seeks the truth about zombie gunfighters that are murdering ranchers in a small town, so he creates some zombies of his own; In Tales of the Ghost Rider, a rancher battles a white wolf that he soon learns is actually a werewolf. The Haunted Tomb!; The League of the Living Dead!; Tales of the Ghost Rider: The Bloody Fangs of Fear!; The Murder in Wax! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Ghost Rider (1967 Marvel Western) 7 CGC 7.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4384236002

Final issue of the series. Gary Friedrick script. Dick Ayers pencils. Herb Trimpe inks. Al Kurzrok letters. "The Macabre Mystery of Massacre Mountain!" Back-up story: "The Tough Ones." Denny O'Neil script, Trimpe plot and art. Cover price $0.12.

Gunslinger Spawn (2021 Image) 1A CGC 9.8 Booth

Paper: White

Label #4385165012

Cover by Brett Booth. Introducing the launch of the second new monthly title spinning out of the SPAWN UNIVERSE, with one of the most popular characters in the entire SPAWN mythology! This book contains three separate GUNSLINGER stories, each taking a look at his journey through time - from the wild, wild west to the 21st century. Will his 200-year-old past come back to haunt him as he navigates the strange world of 2021? Get ready for the past and present to collide in this new ongoing title! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $5.99.

Gunslinger Spawn (2021 Image) 1G CGC 9.8 Booth Variant

Paper: White

Variant Cover G

Label #4363292012

Cover by Brett Booth. Introducing the launch of the second new monthly title spinning out of the SPAWN UNIVERSE, with one of the most popular characters in the entire SPAWN mythology! This book contains three separate GUNSLINGER stories, each taking a look at his journey through time - from the wild, wild west to the 21st century. Will his 200-year-old past come back to haunt him as he navigates the strange world of 2021? Get ready for the past and present to collide in this new ongoing title! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $5.99.

Gunslinger Spawn (2021 Image) 2A CGC 9.8 Barends

Paper: White

Label #3978911003

Written by Todd McFarlane. Art by Brett Booth. Cover by Bjorn Barends. Vampires. Guns. And Blood!!! But whose blood will be spilled first?!? Gunslinger stumbles across a vicious vampire cult's plot to kill Al Simmons… who Gunslinger needs alive if he is ever to return back to 1859. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

Jonah Hex (1977 1st Series) 1 CGC 9.2

Paper: White

Label #4384510018

"Vengence for a Fallen Gladiator!" written by Michael Fleisher with art and inks by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. Cover price $0.30.

Jonah Hex (1977 1st Series) 2 CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4384510019

Mr. Turnbull has Jonah framed for murder in "The Lair of the Parrot!" Characters: Jonah Hex; El Papagayo (introduction and first appearance); Mr. Turnbull. Written by Michael Fleisher, with art and cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Cover price $0.30.

Jonah Hex (1977 1st Series) 13 CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4394792021

"The Railroad Blaster" is written by David Michelinie, with art by Vicente Alcazar. Cover by Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano. Cover price $0.35.

Kid Colt Outlaw (1948) 135 CGC 8.5

Paper: White

Label #2707286019

Cover art by Herb Trimpe. The Menace of Black Bart's Thundering Guns, script by Sol Brodsky, art by Herb Trimpe; Black Bart appears to make Kid Colt turn chicken and back down from a gunfight; Kid Colt is actually very sick, but when he's better he returns for the rematch. War at Indian Canyon!, script by Denny O'Neil, art by Herb Trimpe; Kid Colt must stop Jeb Toohey from wiping out Running Fox's tribe and claiming their land for the gold he discovered there. Showdown in Chicamaw County, script by Stan Lee, art by Don Heck. Listing of 25 Merry Marvel Marching Society members. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Kid Colt Outlaw (1948) 140 CBCS 8.5

Paper: White

Label #22-0FD3AC2-003

New story: "Fury at Farrow Gap" (script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Vince Colletta). Reprints: "The Wolf Pack" (art by Jack Keller), "The Promise" (art by Reed Crandall), and "Showdown in Smoke Mesa" (art by Keller). New Herb Trimpe cover. Cover price $0.15.

Kid Colt Outlaw (1948) 171 CGC 7.5

Paper: White

Slab: See item notes

Chipping to lower back side corner bracket.

Label #3850190016

Two-Gun Kid guest stars in "Day of the Gunslingers!" Script by Larry Lieber, art by Jack Keller. Back-up reprint, "The Long Night!" (art by George Woodbridge). Cover price $0.20.

King of the Royal Mounted Large Feature Comic (1940) 9 GD/VG 3.0

Cover and centerfold loose at one staple. Cover and interior oxidation. Staple rust.

Copyright notice inside book is dated 1937-38, but the comic was actually published in 1940. Reprints Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted newspaper comic strips in black-and-white with color covers. 8-3/5-in. x 11-1/4-in. 76 pages counting covers. Cover price $0.10.

Lieutenant Blueberry GN (1989 Marvel/Epic) 1-1ST CBCS 9.4

Paper: White

Label #23-1912410-003

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Iron Horse!" Written by Jean-Michel Charlier. Art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., full color. Cover price $12.95.

Lieutenant Blueberry GN (1989 Marvel/Epic) 2-1ST CBCS 9.0

Paper: White

Label #23-1912410-002

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Steelfingers!" Written by Jean-Michel Charlier. Art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., full color. Cover price $14.95.

Lieutenant Blueberry GN (1989 Marvel/Epic) 3-1ST CBCS 9.6

Paper: White

Label #23-1912410-001

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "General Golden Mane!" Written by Jean-Michel Charlier. Art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., full color. Cover price $12.95.

Rawhide Kid (1955) 60 CBCS 8.0

Paper: White

Label #22-0FD4DC5-042

Cover by Dick Ayers and Herb Trimpe. Stories by Gary Friedrich, Denny O'Neil and Stan Lee. Art by Dick Ayers and Herb Trimpe. The greatest action epic of them all! Now it can be told! The six-gun saga you demanded as the Rawhide Kid thunders into a deadly Indian war in "Massacre at Medicine Bend!" by Gary Friedrich, Denny O'Neil, Dick Ayers and Herb Trimpe. Also in this issue: Back-up story "The Bronc Buster!" by Stan Lee and Ayers, reprinted from Two-Gun Kid (1948) #63. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Rawhide Kid (1955) 104 CGC 5.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #2117504016

Reprints. Cover by Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta. Stories by Ron Whyte, Larry Lieber and Stan Lee. Art by Larry Lieber, Bob Forgione, Vince Colletta and Jack Abel. Blazing Western action as you like it! Get set for excitement when the Rawhide Kid is challenged to a..."Shoot-Out at Mesa City!" by Ron Whyte, Larry Lieber (pencils) and Vince Colletta, reprinted from issue #63. Plus a second six-gun saga you'll never forget when the Rawhide Kid faces..."The Gun That Couldn't Lose!" by Lieber (script/pencils) and Colletta, also reprinted from issue #63. And: Back-up story "War in Chicamaw County" by Stan Lee, Bob Forgione and Jack Abel, reprinted from Frontier Western (1956) #1. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Red Ryder and the Secret Canyon (1948 Whitman BLB) 1454 VG/FN 5.0

Red Ryder and the Secret Canyon (1948 Whitman BLB) #1454, Harman

Ringo Kid (1970 Marvel) 9 CGC 9.2

Paper: White

Label #1974102008

All reprints. The Ringo Kid stars in "Black Sunset," plus two untitled stories (art on all by John Severin), plus "It Happened in Gunsmoke" back-up story (script by Stan Lee, art by Vic Carrabotta). Herb Trimpe cover? Cover price $0.15.

Rod Cameron Western (1950 Fawcett) 4 VG+ 4.5

Water damage.

The comics incarnation of movie cowboy Cameron pursues desperadoes and owlhoots in the days of the Old West. In an issue-length story, a beaver boom causes demand for beaver pelts to skyrocket. This of course brings beaver bandits, causing violent confrontations at beaver dams across the Old West, and inciting the fury of Rod Cameron. Sam the Sheriff interviews a new deputy, and the "dad jokes" are flying . Hoghead Harry; The Beaver Bandits; Rancher Rollins and His Son, Junior; Under Suspicion; Ten Gallon Tex; Hotshot Horace; Sam the Sheriff. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Rod Cameron Western (1950 Fawcett) 16 VG/FN 5.0

Photo cover of Rod Cameron. The Photo Finish With Death; A photograph is taken just as the bank is robbed, and the deputy tries to destroy the evidence. Golden Boy; Ambling Andy is going to the hills to look for gold. Trouble at Trail's End text story by Hank Spencer. A Cure All; Hoghead will cure his sore throat with salt water. Major Mars' Mission to Venus Popsickle ad. The Barroom Incident; A thirsty customer deliberately starts a fight with the bartender so he would chase him and leave the cash box. The Hog Call starring Sam the Sheriff; The pig farmer gets hungry. The Outlaw Stallion; An outlaw stallion is said to have run off with a large herd of horses, but the real culprit is the foreman. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tom Mix (1940 Ralston-Purina) 7 GD+ 2.5

Miscut/wrapped. Second half of book folded.

Cover by Fred Meagher. Stories and art by Charles Biro, August Froehlich, Stan Schendel, and Fred Meagher. When movie cowboy Tom Mix's radio show hit it big, sponsor Ralston Purina offered Tom Mix Comics by mail for two boxtops of any Ralston cereal. The art, often uncredited, is exceptionally nice in this series. Tom must protect the experimental XP-80 plane from saboteur Doctor Goliath, in a story that contains an impressive splash page of a train explosion, and another scene of Tom lassoing a plane in flight (!). Miserly Uncle Amos decides the Fumble family's pet pig would be a cheap source of bacon, but luckily he's a lousy shot, in a story with art by comics legend Charles Biro. Outlaws trap Jane and Pop Johnson in a burning cabin, but luckily, she's got her Tom Mix Straight Shooter telegraph set. Plus activities pages and magic tricks. And a page praising "Clean, High-Grade" Tom Mix Comics, and emphasizing that they have no "blood-curdling horror, gangster heros, glorification of war " or "cheap, badly drawn illustrations, to debase young readers' conceptions of form and proportion." (!) An early salvo in the comics culture wars. Action-packed cover by Fred Meagher has a little bit of everything. The Train That Vanished from the Face of the Earth; The Fumble Family with Amos Q. Snood; My Favorite Magic Tricks; Sure as Shootin'; Great Straight Shooters: Teddy Roosevelt; Jane's Page; Jane of Dream Castle; Stubby and His Straight Shooter Pals; Teepee of the Plains Indians; Tom Mix and the Cry for Help! 32 pages, Full Color.

Tomahawk (1950) 2 GD- 1.8

4" Spine split from bottom (taped). Cover detached and glued to first wrap.

Cover art by Fred Ray. Four Boys against the Frontier starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. Frontier Editor starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. The Legend of the Five Chiefs--Tales of the Arrow Maker, art by Leonard Starr. Texas Trailblazer, art by Frank Frazetta. The Second Son of Chief War Winner starring Tomahawk, art by Fred Ray. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tomahawk (1950) 6 VG- 3.5

Cover loose at one staple. Water damage

Cover art by Bruno Premiani. Tomahawk -- King of the Aztecs, art by Bruno Premiani. The Victory of Flying Cloud starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. The Legend of the Blue Jays--Tales of the Arrow Maker, art by Leonard Starr. Readin', Writin' and Redskins starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Two-Gun Kid (1948) 78 CGC 6.0 Qualified

Paper: Off white to white

Page 11 Missing, Does Not Affect Story. Incomplete

Label #2117504002

Cover by Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta. Stories by Larry Lieber and Stan Lee. Art by Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta. Two-Gun Kid stars in "The Revenge of Jesse James!" by Larry Lieber, Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta. Also in this issue: A man arrested for shooting an Indian thinks that his gang is breaking him free, but it is really the Indian's vengeful friends in the back-up story "Badman Behind Bars!" by Stan Lee and Ayers, reprinted from Kid Colt Outlaw (1948) #101 (but no Kid Colt appearance). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Two-Gun Kid (1948) 87 CGC 3.5

Paper: Off white

Slab: See item notes

Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure.

Label #2117504004

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Stories by Ron Whyte, Sal Brodsky, Gary Friedrich and Stan Lee. Art by Ogden Whitney and Gene Colan. The Two-Gun Kid's great horse Thunder is stolen in the most unusual Western saga of all time -- "The Sidewinders and the Stallion!" by Ron Whyte and Ogden Whitney. Plus: Another all-new, action-packed thriller when the Two-Gun Kid faces..."Revenge of an Owlhoot!" by Sal Brodsky, Gary Friedrich and Whitney. Also in this issue: Back-up story "My Brother, the Gunfighter" by Stan Lee and Gene Colan (not Dick Ayers, as stated in the credits), reprinted from issue #66. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Weird Western Tales (1972 1st Series) 20 CGC 8.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4068357001

Jonah Hex stars in "Blood Brothers" with script by Arnold Drake, art by Tony DeZuniga. Back-up story: "Turnabout" with plot by Sergio Aragones, script by E. Nelson Bridwell, art by Gil Kane. :uiz Dominguez cover. Cover price $0.20.

Wild Western (1948) 35 VG 4.0

Water spotting and residue.

Cover art by Joe Maneely. Untitled Kid Colt story, art by Jack Keller. Untitled Arrowhead story, art by Joe Sinnott. Higher Target text story. Untitled Two-Gun Kid story, art by Joe Maneely. The Killers starring Black Rider, art by Syd Shores. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Wild Wild West (1966 Gold Key) 1B FN- 5.5 Photo Back Cover Variant

Variant Edition with Robert Conrad photo on back cover. Al McWilliams art. Cover price $0.12.

Wild Wild West (1966 Gold Key) 2A FN+ 6.5

Number on cover is 10174-611. Robert Conrad photo cover. Al McWilliams art. Cover price $0.12.

Young Blueberry GN (1989-1990) 1-1ST CBCS 9.4

Paper: White

Label #23-1911F64-001

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Blueberry's Secret!" Written by Jean-Michel Charlier . Art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud. This graphic novel tells the story of the early years of Mike Donovan a lieutenant in the US Calvary. Learn how he came to blow the Cattanooga Bridge sky high at the start of the Civil War, and how he cleared himself of murder charges. Plus, where did this western hero ever get the name "Blueberry?" Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $7.95.

Young Blueberry GN (1989-1990) 3-1ST CBCS 9.2

Paper: White

Label #23-1911F64-003

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "The Blue Coats!" Stories by Jean-Michel Charlier, plus an introduction by Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier. Art and cover by Jean Giraud, credited as Gir but better known as Moebius. Translation by Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier. The early life of Western hero Lt. Blueberry, featuring art by legendary Heavy Metal artist Moebius. Blueberry finds himself in the thick of the American Civil War. The Blue Coats; Double Cross; Thunder on the Sierra; plus an early Western story from a teenage Moebius, Blanco, King of the Prairie. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $7.95. Cover price $7.95.