Best of the West (1951 A-1 Comics) comic books 1951-1953

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(A-1 Comics #42) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Bob Powell and Frank Frazetta. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Bob Powell and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #42. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow faces gigantic Crow champion Pow-Tah-Kan in single combat; Durango Kid seeks outlaws targeting buffalo hunters; Bobby Bensons B-Bar-B Riders investigate missing logs at a lumber camp. Straight Arrow: Giant-Killer; Durango Kid: Death on the Buffalo Trail; Bobby Bensons B-Bar-B Riders: The Timber Rustlers!; The Ghost Rider Holds the Fort! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #46) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #46. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow faces an Apache so ugly he becomes an outcast, Frankenstein-like monster; Durango Kid helps an orphaned boy targeted by his greedy uncle; Tim Holt, aka Redmask, faces the female villain Black Rider and her riverboat of death. The Face of the Devil; Never Say Die; Peril on the Paddlewheeler; The Monster in the Mist! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #52) Cover by Fred Meagher. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #52. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow acquires an axe that has been cursed by a witch doctor; The Durango Kid discovers Senor Diego Robino's plot to marry and murder Marina for her fortune; Tim Holt, aka Redmask, is drawn in by a redheaded beauty and her gambler pal. The Curse of the Skulls; The Senorita and the Killer; The Trail of the Gun; The Coffin of Snow! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #59) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, John Belfi, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #59. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Feather-Hat is jealous of Straight Arrow because of his war decorations; Ghost Rider seeks the truth about a shaman's severed head that seems to order its tribe to war; Durango Kid investigates a murder at a mining outfit and almost gets dynamited. Also featuring a color ad for the "Complete 15 Piece Bronco Buster" Cowboy and Cowgirl Outfits. The Mark of a Warrior; The Talking Dead; The Junk Robbers; The Blasts of Doom! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #66) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #66. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow is believed to have been killed by renegade Comanche Thunder Cloud, who wants to violate the treaties with settlers; Ghost Rider is trapped in the town jail as owlhoots set it on fire; A corrupt banker tries to take over Melody Shane's ranch. The Man Who Killed Straight Arrow!; Crime on Film!; The Fiery Prison!; The Trouble in Gun-Juice Valley! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #70) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #70. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Durango Kid intervenes when a town is terrorized by the lawless revels of the gang at Handsome Jack's Saloon; The Ghost Rider turns outlaw, but it's all part of a plan to catch a killer; Redmask starts robbing banks so the bad guys will let him take refuge in Hells Hideout. Cant See for Gunsmoke; Hells Hideout; Ghost Rider Gone Bad; The Bow of Bear Claw! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #76) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #76. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Ghost Rider investigates an ancient book of black magic spells; Durango Kid sets out to overthrow the outlaw empire of La Culebra; Straight Arrow is framed for murder with his special arrow. The Book of Doom; Six Gun Empire; The Big Frame-Up; The Ghost of Fort Apache! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #81) Cover by Fred Meagher, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #81. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Bullets fly in every direction when three different gangs decide to kill Redmask at the same time. Outlaws try to trick an amnesiac Civil War commander into believing the war is still going on. Straight Arrow must survive the three death-pits of the Comanche. Bait for Bandit Bullets; The Pits of Peril; The Mad Commander; Code of the Drygulcher! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #85) Cover by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #85. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Steve Brand, secretly the Durango Kid, is suspected of being Deadshot Jones, a sniper who is terrorizing the town; Bad-girl art as bandit queen The Wildcat tries to convince Redmask to help plan her robberies; Straight Arrow meets the Hunter, a big-game hunter who's started hunting humans. The Lair of the Wildcat; The Hunted; Last Stand of Deadshot Jones; The Ghost Stagecoach! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #87) Cover by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Dick Ayers and Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #87. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. The hanged killer Longhair John seems to have returned as a ghost, and Ghost Rider must prove it's a trick, without revealing his own ghostly trickery. Redmask tries to protect the one woman who has seen a notorious outlaw's face. Straight Arrow goes after the three corrupt men who rule the town of Bad Pass. Death Trails the Lady; The Ghost of Longhair Jones; Vengeance is Mine; The Law of the Arrow! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #97) Cover by Fred Meagher. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Fred Guardineer, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #97. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Ghost Rider intervenes when a farm foreman tries to take over Liz Nelson's farm by brute force; Straight Arrow intervenes in a man's hunt for the hermit he believes killed his family. The Hunter and the Hunted; The Horns of Horror; When the Pack Rat Strikes; The Sting of Death! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.