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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published August-September 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Raymond C. Krank
Notes The full title on the cover and in the indicia is "Charles Starrett as THE DURANGO KID."

Cover Details

Characters The Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Raider
Genre western

8 page The Durango Kid story "Shootin' Through!"

Characters The Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Raider (Durango Kid's horse); Pete Summers (stagecoach line owner); Muley Pike; Lem Stevens (villain)
Synopsis Pete Summers goes deep into debt to Lem Stevens to buy a stagecoach line, but Lem is determined to make sure the line fails so he can buy it up.
Genre western
Script Gardner F. Fox ?
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks John Belfi
Notes Sequence and all credits added by Craig Delich 2010-6-4, art credits verified by Bill Black.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #81 (2010)

8 page Durango Kid story "Tough As They Come!"

Characters Durango Kid
Genre western
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks John Belfi
Notes Credits from the reprint.
Reprinted in Best of the West (AC, 1998 series) #52

7 page Dan Brand and Tipi story "River Gauntlet!"

Genre western
Pencils Frank Frazetta (signed)
Inks Frank Frazetta (signed)

2 page text story "The Star Badge"

Letters typeset

6 page The Durango Kid story "Dynamite Doom!"

Characters The Durango Kid [Charles Starrett]; Sam Barnes (Silver Lady Mine foreman); Geoffreys (villain, Silver Lady Mine owner)
Synopsis The Kid investigates the activities of a "dynamite killer" and thinks he has tracked down the real perpetrator. But he is wrong, nearly dead wrong!
Genre western
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks John Belfi
Notes Sequence and all credits added by Craig Delich 2010-2-5, credits verified by Bill Black.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #80 (2009)