Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books 1954-1956

Stories and art by Stan Campbell and others. First issue published by Charlton. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Hopalong Cassidy meets the strange killer called Bullethead, who can kill with a single blow from his bullet-shaped skull, and is called "the 3D killer" because he's "dangerous, demonic and demented." This is the only Charlton issue to feature Hopalong Cassidy; DC acquired the rights to the character around the same time. A dying killer confesses the names of his partners to Lash LaRue, and the partners want to kill Lash before he can report them to the authorities. Tex Ritter tracks a man who goes insane periodically and must be kept in a special room - or so he is told by the man's captors. Hopalong Cassidy: Bullethead the 3D Killer; Lash LaRue: The Dangerous Confession; Powerless Shots; Rocky Lane: The Hidden Cargo; Tex Ritter: Midnight Madness; Dee Dickens: The Found and Lost Treasure. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Vince Alascia and John Belfi. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Monte Hale tries to figure out who is sabotaging railroad construction with explosives. Rocky Lane lies in wait for the robbers who have been targeting freight coaches. Powerful ranchers on both sides of the Texas border start a range war, and Lash LaRue has to finish it. Monte Hale: Disaster Rides the Rails; Lash LaRue: Case of the Disappearing Herd; Brute Force; Rocky Lane: Death Rides the Rails; Tex Ritter: Wanted: Dead or Alive! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Vince Alascia, Stan Campbell and John Belfi. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Gold thieves on the run join up with a wagon train that's using camels instead of horses, an adaptation of the 1954 UA Western movie "Southwest Passage." "Prairie Ranger" Tex Ritter tries to halt a range war between the Bar C and Double X ranches. When rails go missing from a railroad construction camp, Lash LaRue investigates - is someone trying to sabotage the rails, or is it something stranger? Rod Cameron: Camels West!; Lash LaRue: The Mystery of the Missing Rails!; Range War; Rocky Lane: Revenge of Vittorio; Tex Ritter and the Range War. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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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.

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. Rocky Lane stumbles on outlaws who are planning to blow up the dam, then clean out the stricken town nearby. Lash LaRue runs into his myopic pal Squinty in Hedge City, and the two of them accidentally foil an outlaw's safecracking scheme. Tom Mix wonders why someone is poisoning cattle; meanwhile, an outlaw disguises himself as the local veterinarian. Lash LaRue: The Saga of Squinty; Two Gun Tommy Turner; Rocky Lane: The Wave of Fear; Tex Ritter: Lawman; Tom Mix: The Treacherous Plot. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Carl Pfeufer, Ralph Carlson and Vince Alascia. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Outlaws give the "party of the first part" treatment to a treaty contract with the local Native population, so they can take the tribe's buffalo herd and sell it back to them at a profit. Tex Ritter agrees to a showdown with Trigger Bill, one of the fastest shots in the West. Tom Mix discovers gold hidden in an anvil and realizes why outlaws want the anvil so badly. Lash LaRue: Close Shave; Red Roan: Captive Herd; Rocky Lane: Buffalo Branders; Tex Ritter: Bullets Vs. Proof; Tom Mix: The Secret of the Hollow Anvil. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Stan Campbell and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. An escaped convict in a theatrical costume tries to convince hapless settlers that he's the undercover "King of Cellmania." Rocky gets to the bottom of a gambler's marked-card scheme, thanks to his hermit pal Solitaire. Tom Mix agrees to escort a prisoner to the sheriff, but when he sees the prisoner is the beautiful blonde Caroline Marston, he's not sure what to think. Lash LaRue: The King of Cellmania; Red Roan: The Untamed; Rocky Lane: The Hermit of the Hills; Tex Ritter: Ghost Gang; Tom Mix: Trapped. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Stan Campbell and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Framed for murder in Ten Mile City, Tex Ritter must elude a mob and prove his innocence. When an outlaw targets the widows of Dover County, Lash LaRue gets especially irate, but to catch the dress-wearing outlaw, Lash must dress in drag himself. During a drought, corrupt rancher Bronc figures out a complicated scheme to sell a neighbor his own rustled cattle, and get him framed for rustling to boot. Rocky Lane: Hot-Iron Artists; Tex Ritter: Frame-Up; Hotel Holdup; Lash LaRue: The Widow's Purse; Tom Mix: The Package of Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Stan Campbell and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. "Roving marshal" Lash LaRue investigates when a disabled ex-sheriff suddenly cuts ties with the townspeople who support his pension fund. A star-crossed romance between two young lovers deepens the feud between their fathers, who are rival ranchers. Rocky discovers the secret of an old mission in a Mexican border town. First issue with the Comics Code seal on the cover. Rocky Lane: The Secret of the Old Mission; Tex Ritter: Valley of Hate; Slayer at Sundown; Lash LaRue: The Pension Mystery Case; Tom Mix: Cupid's Perils. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Stan Campbell and Carl Pfeufer. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. Tex Ritter investigates after a prospector is murdered even though his mine contained nothing but Fool's Gold. Rocky Lane escorts a murder witness, but outlaws want to make sure neither of them makes it to trial. Rocky Lane: Six-Gun Territory; Tex Ritter: Fool's Gold; Fair Fight; Lash LaRue: The Keeper Of The Clock; Tom Mix: The Slaves In Bondage. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Cover by Stan Campbell. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. "Roving marshal" Lash LaRue encounters a former circus horse named Backwards, who has been trained to do the opposite of any verbal commands, which sounds like the setup for a joke. Tex Ritter attends the funeral of a man he once saved, only to learn it's a double funeral, and the other corpse is supposedly Tex Ritter. When homesteaders' houses begin spontaneously collapsing, Rocky Lane notices they were all built with lumber from the same lumber mill. Rocky Lane: The Last Plank; Tex Ritter: Last Will and Testament; Rio Grande Revenge; Black Jack's Hitching Post; Lash LaRue: The Backward Tale. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Frank Bolle and others. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. When an honest man vanishes with the mine payroll, Lash LaRue suspects there's more to the story. Pistol Packing Pattie meets the habitual fibber Big Talk Briggs, but she gets the last word. Rocky Lane gets crosswise with brutal bridge owner Jawbreaker Brack, who would rather blow up his own bridge than let Rocky challenge his authority. Rocky Lane: The Bridge of Destiny; Tex Ritter: The Race Against Time!; Animal Quiz; The Bite of Toothless Trigger; Pistol Packing Pattie; Fluff and Huff; Lash LaRue: The Patrol Marauders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Maurice Whitman. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, 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 of the popular 1951-1958 television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok." Marshal Wild Bill Hickok wants to know why Colonel Moulton is hiring outlaws and owlhoots for ranch hands, but he can't get close without guns being trained on him. When new arrival Rock Donnel starts with the threats and violence, Wild Bill tries to take him in, but he may not live that long. When Hughes refuses to sell his ranchland to Case, Case conspires with Hughes' nephew to get rid of him. Thieves Roundup; Signed Sealed & Delivered; Hidden Valley; Drygulchers Reward; Jail Break; Tenderfoot Terror; Lash LaRue: Fixin' The Fixers; Whimpy; Tumbleweed Jr. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.