Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (1950) comic books 1951-1953
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Issue #5
Published Jul 1951 by Toby Press.$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.
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Issue #10
Published May 1952 by Toby Press.$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.
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Issue #11
Published Jul 1952 by Toby Press.$6.40
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 #13
Published Nov 1952 by Toby Press.$11.50
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$5.60
Stories and art by Harvey Kurtzman and Vic Herman. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy investigates reports of a ghostly stagecoach haunting the trail when a beautiful woman fears it will mean the end of her father's coach line. Judy, a rancher's beautiful daughter, falls for Billy, but that causes trouble with the jealous ranch foreman, whose name is "Pete Parker." Nerdy boxer Kid Science faces a dirty fighter in the ring, but he's got psychology on his side. Plus a one-page comedy short by Mad creator Harvey Kurtzman. The Phantom Stagecoach; The Taming of Shugrue; The Bow and Arrow Kid; Genius; The Case of the Bullet in the Leg; Kid Science: The Pug With the Perfect Profile. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #17
Published Jul 1953 by Toby Press.$5.60
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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.
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Issue #18
Published Sep 1953 by Toby Press.$5.70
$5.70
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 #19
Published Nov 1953 by Toby Press.$7.60
$6.40
$6.40
A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy seeks revenge on the strange skull-masked figure who gunned down his young friend Tom, but everyone else thinks the killer is Death itself. Billy is the sole survivor of a dynamite attack on a stagecoach, but the bandits left two things behind: a horse and a telltale cigarette case. Billy stumbles on a train robbery in progress. Death Travels Northward!; Stagecoach Blow-Up!; Dry-Gulch Terror!; The Crooked Deck. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
