Range Busters (1955 Charlton) comic books 1950-1959
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Issue #8
Published May 1955 by Charlton Comics Group.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.
Early Charlton Western comic featuring Chip, Doodle and Scott, the Range Busters. The Range Busters are hired to drive a herd of cattle across the Mexican border, but they must elude the thugs of Alcardo. Sharp-shooting action girl Cactus Nell helps her sheriff husband track down the outlaws who robbed the Scrub Oaks Bank. A mostly true version of the life of Western outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Plus knot-tying and the knots that Western cowboys used on the ranch. The cover, by an unknown artist, is reprinted from the Fox pre-Code comic Western True Crime. The Traitor of El Nuevo; Knots; Baggataway; Cactus Nell's Dangerous Gamble; Vanishing Gold; The Saga of John Wesley Hardin. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #9
Published Jul 1955 by Charlton Comics Group.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 Wally Wood and others. Early Charlton Western comic featuring Chip, Doodle and Scott, the Range Busters. Bill Folers gets involved after crooks faking a bank robbery for a Wild West show turn out to be the real thing. Gunfighter Holt Wilson tries to find out who shot his friend Curly, but that puts him at odds with beautiful redheaded sharpshooter Cynthie, who thinks Holt is the suspect. The art for this story is by comics legend Wally Wood. In another story, Holt is mistaken for a stage robber and escapes jail to clear his name. Plus fun facts about cowboy hats. Ambush from Nowhere; Sagebrush; Chief Wild Feather Gets A Free Ride; Cowboy Hats; Gunsmoke on Hot Head Trail; Sagebrush Honor; Chief Gray Matter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #10
Published Sep 1955 by Charlton Comics Group.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 inks by Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Bill Molno, Sal Trapani¸ Dick Giordano, Vince Alascia, and Al Martin Napoletano. Early Charlton Western comic featuring Chip, Doodle and Scott, the Range Busters. Framed for bank robbery, the Range Busters are sentenced to Rondo Prison, but they escape jail to clear their names. Doodle falls for beautiful blonde Lola, and she seems smitten with him too, but what does she have to do with the money missing from the town bank? Golden Arrow investigates the cause of a plague that's affecting the cattle of Dry Gulch. Breakout at Rondo Prison; Doodle and the Gorgeous Blonde; Night Ride; Bing: Sleepy Time; Golden Arrow: The Cattle Fraud; The Ranch Boys. Final issue under this title; series continues as Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal (1956 Charlton) #12. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
