Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (1950) comic books
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Issue #5
Published Jul 1951 by Toby Press.$9.30
Stories and art by Jack Sparling and Elmer Wexler. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. To prove his own innocence, Billy sets out to bring in a killer, but the weather and the wolves are against him. Billy tries to prevent a boy driven by vengeance from committing murder. Young would-be cowhands get lectured by the Oldtimer on how to treat a lady. Wolfbait; Revenge Fever; Ten-Gallon Allen; Buffaloing the Buffalo; Oldtimer: Women Haters. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #7
Published Nov 1951 by Toby Press.$2.90
- INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story. 2 1/2" cumulative spine split. Lateral spine tear. Water spotting.
Stories and art by Jack Sparling and others. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Town vigilantes try to hang Billy and anyone else who crosses them, but he is saved by a young orphan with vengeance on his mind. Billy gets caught up in a range war after rescuing a rancher from a horse-whipping. Billy finds trouble after saving a little girl from a stampede. Hangman's Nemesis; The Maverick Factory; At the Drop of a Hat; Hepsibar's Pal Joey; Oldtimer: Chief Cackleberry. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #10
Published May 1952 by Toby Press.$11.75
Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Leon Winik, Ed Smalle, Lorence Bjorklund and Tom Gill. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy finds a body in the creek that turns out to be a dummy, accidentally getting caught up in a wanted killer's plot to fake his own death. Billy investigates when the kid he met on the stagecoach is kidnapped, even though his ranch land is supposed to be worthless. When Dan Magee is sentenced to hang, his sister comes gunning for Billy the Kid, thinking he's to blame, but the real killer is someone else entirely. Stand-In for Death; Masquerade; Tex Keeler's Cowboy Lingo; Ten-Gallon Allen; The Hanging of Dan Magee; The Crooked Deck; Clay Allison, Terror of the Washita!; Foolin' Around. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #11
Published Jul 1952 by Toby Press.$10.50
Stories and art by Art Helfant and Tom Gill. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy comes across a dying man who entrusts him with the map to a hidden treasure. Billy learns the local bartender is behind a robbery ring. Prospector Pete takes his gold with him to the laundromat. Plus the true story of Western legends Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers. The Treasure of Death; Jack Slade of the Overland; Death in Falling Rock Canyon; The Stagecoach's Last Ride; The Hidden Brand; Doc Holliday the Fast Draw Dentist; Prospector Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #18
Published Sep 1953 by Toby Press.$14.00
A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. The cover says it best: "To speak out against the Brand Brothers was to stake out a claim for yourself on Boot Hill...Vicious sidewinders who'd as soon drygulch a man as drink a second cup of coffee..." They don't write 'em like that anymore. After a young kid takes a shot at him, Billy gets involved in protecting his beautiful widowed mother from the outlaws who killed her husband for his gold mine. Mitzy Malloy, a female Marine, thinks a military training film will be her big break into showbiz, but the subject is camouflage. The Brand Brothers; Dead Mans Gold; Mitzi Malloy: The Best Film on Camouflage; There Is a Man; Gunsmoke Justice. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #21
Published Mar 1954 by Toby Press.$7.70
Stories and art by Art Helfant and Charles Kuhn. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy the Kid heads for Silver City, gunning for Simon Black, who "dry-gulched" his pal Al Morgan. Billy encounters female prospector Katie O'Donnell, who looks like Granny Goodness, and is just as tough. Prospector Pete takes his gold with him to the laundromat. The Gun-Fight!; The Murderer and the Lady; Billy Spoke First; I Am Black Bear!; Prospector Pete; The Good Old Days. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #22
Published May 1954 by Toby Press.$12.00
Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Jack Sparling, Art Helfant and Leon Winik. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy gets mixed up with a town's annual race and finds all is not on the up-and-up. Billy stops a mob from hanging an innocent man, and sets out to find the real bank robber. True facts about gunfighting and slang terms of the Old West, featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Four O'Clock Noose; The Thousand Mile Race; Owl Hoot Trail; Sunrise Orders the Blue Plate Special; Prospector Pete; Guns Facts about Firearms; Ten-Gallon Allen. 32 pages, Full Color.n/Frazetta Cover price $0.10.
