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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published July 1956
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Mark of the Gun-Man!"

Characters Matt Slade
Genre Western
Pencils Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks Joe Maneely (signed)

5 page Matt Slade, Gunfighter story "Mark of the Gunman!"

Genre Western
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth
Reprinted in Western Gunfighters (Marvel, 1970 series) #13

2 page text story "The Peaceful Man"

Characters Jed Partriss; Rud Hankel; Sheriff Dick Swidger; Joe Trumper
Synopsis A travelling musician averts a cattle war with the power of song.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Wild Western (Marvel, 1948 series) #57 (September 1957) [as "The Minstrel"]; in Wyatt Earp (Marvel, 1955 series) #21 (February 1959); in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #99 (July 1961)

4 page Matt Slade, Gunfighter story "Gunsmoke Trail!"

Genre Western
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth
Notes Title is from the cover.

4 page Matt Slade, Gunfighter story

Synopsis It was that Wolf-sharp gunfighter's sense that warned him of danger that twisted him aside and saved him.
Genre Western
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth

4 page story "The Rip-Snorter"

Genre Western
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Al Williamson (signed)
Inks Al Williamson (signed)
Reprinted in Western Gunfighters (Marvel, 1970 series) #18

5 page Matt Slade, Gunfighter story

Synopsis The sun was a brassy globe in a yellow sky.
Genre Western
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth