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Best of the West (1951 A-1 Comics) comic books 1959 or before

  • Issue #1
    Best of the West (1951 A-1 Comics) 1

    (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.

  • Issue #9
    Best of the West (1951 A-1 Comics) 9

    (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.

  • Issue #11
    Best of the West (1951 A-1 Comics) 11

    (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.