Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (1950) comic books 1955 or before

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $2.80

Stories and art by 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. When Billy stumbles on two owlhoots bushwhacking Russ Clayton, he gets involved in the effort to free Mesa Valley from terror. Billy is a target when he rides into town with a price on his head, but those he has helped try to keep him safe. Prospector Pete gives up prospecting for acting, and gets cast in a movie... as a prospector. Plus the legend of the Lost Adams gold. Outlaw's Code; Owl Hoot Trail; Somebody Gets Caught; Lost Gold, the True Story of the Lost Adams Diggin's; Coward's Bluster; Prospector Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $8.10

Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Jimmy Thompson, Leon Winik and Art Helfant. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy helps a boy make a stand against a corrupt town banker. A madman hunts Billy for sport, in a Most Dangerous Game scenario. Prospector Pete gives his opinion of the new railroad. Outlaws Hang Together; The Mustang; Manhunt; Ambush in Carson City; Prospector Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $8.10

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.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $13.00 View scan Cover detached. 2" Cumulative spine split.

Stories and art by Jack Sparling and Leon Winik. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy helps a town stand up to the Black Diamond Boys - but there are more Boys than he thought. Billy has a nightmare of fighting with a gorilla, in a dream sequence that may be early work by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Billy is on a stagecoach that is transporting a gold shipment, joining forces with the sheriff in a tense standoff against marauding outlaws. The Black Diamond Boys; Nightmare!; White Courage; Stagecoach; Ten-Gallon Allen; Oldtimer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $9.30

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.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $8.50

Stories and art by Leon Winik and Art Helfant. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy learns the truth about a legendary cave full of treasure, haunted by the ghost of a conquistador. Billy helps a trapped man, and gets caught up in the battle against outlaw Kurt Stiletto. Billy finds trouble after joining a group of Native American teens for a game of football. The Haunted Cave; The Weeper; Ten-Gallon Allen; Hot Air Throws the Bull; Bad Medicine!; Prospector Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $8.30

Stories and art by Jack Sparling, C.C. Beck and Harvey Kurtzman. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy befriends Native warrior Killer of Eagles, earning the enmity of the tribal leader whose tyranny Killer opposes. Billy encounters the Purple Back gang and their extortion racket. A classic Harvey Kurtzman Pot-Shot Pete comedy short, as Pete sets out to bring in the McYetnit Boys against all odds. Plus a Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Return of Captain Narsty," with art by Shazam creator C.C. Beck. Killer of Eagles; The Purple Back; The Last Extra; Pot-Shot Pete vs. The McYetnit Boys. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $9.90

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.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $12.00

Stories and art by Jim McArdle and E. J. Smalle. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. While everyone believes Billy is dead, a masked highwayman claims to be Billy the Kid, setting the real Billy on his trail. While in the hoosegow, Billy meets Luke, a young rancher falsely accused of murder, and realizes he's telling the truth. Billy and his pal Saddle Sam help medicine-show doctor Doc Hoskins and his beautiful salesgirl Kathy claim a medicinal spring during a land rush. Plus a vintage Popsicle ad in comics form featuring Major Mars ("America's #1 Space Soldier") and an offer for a "Real Rocket Water Pistol." The Crying Judge; The Ghost of Billy the Kid; The Great Land Rush; Little Guy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $8.30

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.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $12.25

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.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $7.20

Cover by Jack Sparling. Stories and art by Jack Sparling and Jack O'Brien. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy sets out to avenge his prospector friend Jeb, murdered by his partner after they struck gold. Billy rescues a boy from a stampede and gets caught up in a murderous plot on a ranch. When Billy swears to give up his guns, outlaws see their chance. Hatred Made the Desert Hotter; The Maverick; The Prince Albert Kid; The Silver Tongue of Death; The Loan Arranger. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $6.30

Cover by Jack Sparling. Stories and art by Jack Sparling, John Forte and Mell Lazarus. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy saves a man chained to a boulder, and gets mixed up in the strange killings involving masked men and a Baskervillian "phantom wildcat." Billy wants to help a woman save her lumber camp, but he's got a price on his head and a hunter on his trail. Billy gets involved in preventing a war between Comanches and Arapahoes. Plus an early cartoon by Mell Lazarus, creator of the Momma and Miss Peach comic strips. The Phantom Attacker; Man-Hunt; The Kidnappers!; Friendship's a Wonderful Thing; The Saga of the Sun Dance; Facts About the Wild, Wooly, Crazy, Mixed-Up West. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.