Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (1950) comic books 1953
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Issue #14
Published Jan 1953 by Toby Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Stories and art by Frank Frazetta and Art Helfant. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. After Billy gets involved in a range war, everyone believes he is dead...which is just the way he wants it. True facts about gunfighting and slang terms of the Old West, featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Prospector Pete gives up prospecting for acting, and gets cast in a movie... as a prospector. The Cave on Suicide Mountain; Billy's Round Trip - To Death and Back; Billy the Kid Meets 'Monk'; Guns - Facts About Firearms; Somebody Gets Caught; Prospector Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #15
Published Mar 1953 by Toby Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Stories and art by Vic Herman and others. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy takes on Ton O'Toole, a Kingpin-like outlaw leader who uses his massive size as a weapon. Billy realizes that a tribe's magical "river of fire" is actually an oil deposit. Teen Tookie finds a creative solution when she realizes she has two dates on the same night. Plus a vintage ad for Lionel Trains. The Ton of Evil!; The River of Fire; Border Duel; Tookie's Double Date; Billy Spoke First. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #16
Published May 1953 by Toby Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by Tom Gill. Stories and art by Tom Gill, Jack Sparling and Ed Winiarski. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy helps a beautiful doctor's daughter menaced by outlaws. Billy gets swept up in the Lincoln County Wars. Billy faces tests of strength and endurance to rescue a boy captured by Paiute warriors. The Sheriff's Young'un; The Doctor's Daughter; Draw and Die; Billy Fights the Great Spirit; Li'l Tales from the Big Top as Told by Sawdust Trails. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #17
Published Jul 1953 by Toby Press.$5.60
View scan- 3/4" Cumulative spine split.
Stories and art by Jim McArdle and E. J. Smalle. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. While everyone believes Billy is dead, a masked highwayman claims to be Billy the Kid, setting the real Billy on his trail. While in the hoosegow, Billy meets Luke, a young rancher falsely accused of murder, and realizes he's telling the truth. Billy and his pal Saddle Sam help medicine-show doctor Doc Hoskins and his beautiful salesgirl Kathy claim a medicinal spring during a land rush. Plus a vintage Popsicle ad in comics form featuring Major Mars ("America's #1 Space Soldier") and an offer for a "Real Rocket Water Pistol." The Crying Judge; The Ghost of Billy the Kid; The Great Land Rush; Little Guy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #18
Published Sep 1953 by Toby Press.$5.70
$5.70
A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. The cover says it best: "To speak out against the Brand Brothers was to stake out a claim for yourself on Boot Hill...Vicious sidewinders who'd as soon drygulch a man as drink a second cup of coffee..." They don't write 'em like that anymore. After a young kid takes a shot at him, Billy gets involved in protecting his beautiful widowed mother from the outlaws who killed her husband for his gold mine. Mitzy Malloy, a female Marine, thinks a military training film will be her big break into showbiz, but the subject is camouflage. The Brand Brothers; Dead Mans Gold; Mitzi Malloy: The Best Film on Camouflage; There Is a Man; Gunsmoke Justice. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #19
Published Nov 1953 by Toby Press.$7.60
$6.40
$6.40
A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy seeks revenge on the strange skull-masked figure who gunned down his young friend Tom, but everyone else thinks the killer is Death itself. Billy is the sole survivor of a dynamite attack on a stagecoach, but the bandits left two things behind: a horse and a telltale cigarette case. Billy stumbles on a train robbery in progress. Death Travels Northward!; Stagecoach Blow-Up!; Dry-Gulch Terror!; The Crooked Deck. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
