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Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books 1950-1959

  • Issue #1
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 1
    • 3" cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Stories and art by Louis Zansky and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Sheriff Hopalong Cassidy takes a vacation from Twin Rivers, only to find he must deal justice with his fists in a boxing ring. Smiley Burnette must find a missing man and claim the reward before 6PM, or the printing press for the Burnette Bugle will be repossessed. "Undercover Marshal" Rocky Lane steals rifles from renegade Natives, but when they are pursued, the only escape is a Butch Cassidy-style cliff jump. Ten-Gallon Tex; Hopalong Cassidy: The Knockout; Bluster and Fluster: Farm Foes; Smiley Burnette: The Rock Head Territory Swindle; Night Rustlers; Rocky Lane: The Illegal Cargo; Windy: Lamebrain Lem. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 3

    Stories and art by Frank Doyle and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Settlers are chased off their land by men with Federal badges, but it turns out the men who owned those badges were killed by outlaws. Smiley Burnett's camera captures "Light Finger Bucky" in action. "Undercover Marshal" Rocky Lane must restore his reputation after a failed mission. Plus a Western Quiz. Lamebrain Lem; Hopalong Cassidy: The Haven of Horror!; Blustery Buster; Gunman's Thunder; Smiley Burnette: Pictures Are News!; Whistling Willie; Rocky Lane: Lawless City!; Ten Gallon Tex. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 6

    A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy gets mixed up in the feud between two dueling ranchers after it turns deadly. Smiley Burnette winds up in the middle of a murder plot, but luckily, his horse Ring Eye is smarter and braver than he is. Bullwhip-wielding Lash LaRue rescues a ranch owner from an ambush by his foreman and becomes a target himself. Lamebrain Lem; Hopalong Cassidy: Death at the Window; Smiley Burnette: Ring Eyes Victory; The Black Stallion; Lash LaRue: Law without Order; Binks the Baker; Rocky Lane: Killers from the City; Ten Gallon Tex. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 8

    Stories and art by Louis Zansky and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Outlaws plan to raid the Candlelight Carnival in Hopalong Cassidy's town by dousing the candles with a waterhose. "Secret Marshal" Rocky Lane tries to figure out who is causing wagon trains to explode. When a bridegroom is shot just before a wedding, suspicion falls on the jilted suitor who is caught by Lash LaRue, leaving town a short while later. Lamebrain Lem; Hopalong Cassidy: The Candlelight Carnival; Lash LaRue: The Vows of Disaster; The Hunted; Pistol Packing Pattie Has Her Opinion; Smiley Burnette: Quicksand; Playwright Plait; Rocky Lane: The Exploding Wagon Trains; Ten Gallon Tex. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 9

    Stories and art by Louis Zansky and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. When a lumber baron drops dead shortly after arsenic is stolen from the pharmacy, Hopalong Cassidy gets suspicious. Lash LaRue dares to ride through Waterloo Gap, which is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a killer. "Secret Marshal" Rocky Lane springs into action after the diamond for Tippy Canute's engagement ring is stolen by a stagecoach robber. Lamebrain Lem; Hopalong Cassidy: The Poison Mystery; Lash LaRue: The Legend of Waterloo Gap; Shortcut to Danger; Unlucky Lucky; Smiley Burnette: The River Boat Escapade; Singing Susie; Rocky Lane: The Perfect Diamond; Ten Gallon Tex. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 12
    • Writing in margin of splash page. Staple rust.

    Stories and art by Louis Zansky and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. "Secret Marshal" Rocky Lane is suspicious when an old man with memory lapses is accused of robbing a stagecoach. When his wife repays the victims, Rocky sees his suspicions confirmed. Only the mind of Smiley Burnette could figure out the Topsy Turvey Hide-Out. Hopalong Cassidy; Lash LaRue: The Silent Watch; Holster Holt; Smiley Burnette: The Tale of the Topsy Turvey Hide-Out; Rocky Lane: The Uninvited Guests; Toddler Tod. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #14
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 14

    Stories and art by Louis Zansky and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy sets out to find the Kerr Gang, riding the very stagecoach that the gang is planning to rob. Assigned to guard a fortune in gold dust, Lash LaRue witnesses a murder, and must decide whether to pursue the killer or maintain his assignment. "Secret Marshal" Rocky Lane is suspicious when con men promote the healing waters of a fountain, using ex-cons as plants to sway the crowd. Hopalong Cassidy: The Unfinished Trip; Lash LaRue: The Perilous Decision; Honest John Deals; Ten-Gallon Tex; Li'l Buck; Black Banshee; Daisy and Maisie; Rocky Lane: The Fountain of Life; Lamebrain Lem. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 16

    Stories and art by Louis Zansky and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy tracks a suspected killer into the mountains, but the man is trying to confront the outlaws who framed him for murder. Cattle rustlers set a deadly trap for Lash LaRue. "Secret Marshal" Rocky Lane must escort a massive diamond to a gem show, but outlaws know he's got the stone. Hopalong Cassidy: Over the Cliff; Mule Skinner; Lash LaRue: Rustlers on the Range; Ten-Gallon Tex; Smiley Burnette: Clothes Make the Man; Cactus Brain; Rocky Lane: The Diamond of Death; Lamebrain Lem. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #18
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 18
    • Writing in margin of splash page.

    A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy offers to trade places with a stagecoach driver who's been targeted by the corrupt ex-partner he helped put in jail. Monte Hale is ambushed by a man with a strawberry birthmark, who mistook him for another tall cowpoke. "Secret Marshal" Rocky Lane tries to get to the bottom of it when one rancher's cattle show up in another rancher's pen. Hopalong Cassidy: The Ominous Note; Brainy Buster; Lash LaRue: The Mystery of the Locket; Ten-Gallon Tex; Monte Hale: The Case of the Strawberry Birthmark; Hammer Head; Wrangler's Woes; Rocky Lane: The Marks of Innocence; Lamebrain Lem. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #19
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 19

    A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy seeks the killer of a famous author and the man he speaks of in his last words, "the Cavalier." Lash LaRue dresses up as an old woman in order to trick an outlaw into leading him where his loot is stashed. When the townspeople make a fake "Wanted" poster for Doc Williams' retirement party, a con man plots to make it pay a real reward. Guarding the Pass; Hopalong Cassidy: The Cavalier; Brainy Buster; Lash LaRue: The Woman in Black; Ten-Gallon Tex; Monte Hale: The Head of the Snake; Hammer Head; Tex Ritter: The Pink Wheat Mystery; Rocky Lane: The Chief's Blunder; Lamebrain Lem. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #21
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 21

    Stories and art by Doug Wildey and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. A talkative railroad official comes to town and everybody wants to bribe him for their own benefit, but maybe he's not who he claims to be. Lash LaRue warns a fort of an impending Native attack, in a story with art by Doug Wildey. Monte Hale tries to help Curly regain his will to live after his face is horribly scarred in a thresher accident. Sheriff's Secret; Hopalong Cassidy: The Bribe; Pony Boy Pedro; Ambling Andy; Lash LaRue: Thunder Cloud's Revolt; Monte Hale: Tragedy on the Bar 50; Lamebrain Lem; Ten-Gallon Tex; Rocky Lane: Flight to Nowhere. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #22
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 22
    • Staple rust.

    Stories and art by Doug Wildey and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy plays along when two outlaws offer to send him on vacation, but he doesn't realize he's walking into a trap. When a little boy is trapped in an abandoned mine scheduled for demolition, only Tex Ritter can save him. When a corrupt acting sheriff plants "dope" on a wealthy rancher, Rocky Lane must step in. Rough Rider; Hopalong Cassidy: The Trip to Oblivion; Pony Boy Pedro; Ambling Andy; Lash LaRue: The Prairie Swindle; Monte Hale: The Mountain Maze; Lamebrain Lem; Ten-Gallon Tex; Tex Ritter: Buried Alive; Rocky Lane: The Extortion Plot. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #27
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 27
    • Cover detached at one staple.

    Stories and art by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. An outlaw plots to discredit Lash LaRue so he can take over the town himself. Tom Mix realizes that the showboat that's stopped outside of town is just a distraction so outlaws can rob the bank. Rocky Lane can't figure out why outlaws seem to rob banks for the sheer pleasure of the act, not the money. Lash LaRue: Stolen Honor; Chief Boiler Plate; Rocky Lane: The Non-Profit Bank Robbers; Tex Ritter: Scheming Killer; Tom Mix: The Crime Showboat. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #28
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 28

    Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Carl Pfeufer, Stan Campbell and Vince Alascia. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. The gunslinger known as the Crippler usually shoots at his opponent's legs, but in Rocky Lane's case, he plans to make an exception. A woman sends her son for help from Lash LaRue when she realizes the three men who stopped at her cabin are her husband's killers. Tom Mix loans his horse to a boy so he can enter a race and use the prize money to rebuild his fire-damaged home. Lash LaRue: The Killers in the Hills; Red Roan: Outlaw Valley; Rocky Lane: The Crippler; Tex Ritter: Western Justice; Tom Mix: The Son of Tony. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #35
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 35

    Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Missing moccasins give Tom Mix the clue to a murder. Tex Ritter gets a chance to use his courage and fighting know-how when he forces a showdown with Hawkeye Smith, the toughest outlaw in the Old West. Rocky Lane catches a "slick-fingered tin-horn" cheating at cards, and bullets start flying. Rocky Lane: Bullets Wild!; Tex Ritter Saves the Lone Star Longhorns; The Four X Stetson; Lash LaRue: The Man With the Prison Record; Tom Mix and the Case of the Lost Moccasins. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #40
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 40

    Cover by Maurice Whitman. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Bolle, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. These mid-series issues feature Jingles and Wild Bill Hickok, main characters in the popular 1951-1958 television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok." Marshal Hickok and Jingles must escort two prisoners from mining town Timberline on a stagecoach that is also carrying gold, cash and a banker's wife. Wild Bill takes on Diablo, a circus sharpshooter who has turned to crime. Pistol Packing Pattie saves the mayor's life with her sharp eye and sharp-shootin'. Last Stage to Cheyenne; Carnival of Fear; Pistol Packing Pattie Has a Block Party; The Right Medicine; Meet Pont Bob; Election of a Badman; Fanciest Boots in Town; Lash LaRue: King of the Camp. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #44
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 44
    • Water damage.

    Cover by Maurice Whitman. Stories and art by Maurice Whitman, Bill Molno and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. This issue switches main characters again, now focusing on Western legends Kit Carson, Jim Bowie and Daniel Boone. Kit Carson is based on the character from the popular 1951-1955 television series "The Adventures of Kit Carson." Kit Carson manages to rescue a man thrown into the rapids, only for them both to be captured by rustlers when they get to shore. The new sheriff of Sandy Creek is a bully who jails anyone who crosses him, and that includes Daniel Boone. Kit Carson: Apache Gold; Kit Carson: Incident at Devils Roar Rapids; Kit Carson: Showdown Near Taos; The Concord Coach; Jim Bowie: Long Shot; Daniel Boone: Sandy Creek Jailbreak. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #50
    Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) 50

    Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Sal Trapani, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas, and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. When Windy Bayles' gang rides into town, Marshal Hickok surprises him and everyone by offering to turn in his badge and let Windy rob the bank unhindered. Crack shot Annie Oakley lets Cletus Kidd and his gang rob the bank and the general store because she doesn't want to risk innocent people getting hurt, but when they hit her favorite hat store, they've gone too far. A bank robber's cunning remark casts doubts on Wyatt Earp's reputation. Wyatt Earp: Devil's Rendezvous; Gold; Lash LaRue: Hidden Guns; Wild Bill Hickok: Cautious Marshal; Annie Oakley The Last Straw. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.