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Issue: The Fastest Gun Western #[nn]
Publication Date: April 1984
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFederal
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: The Federal Publishing Company Proprietary Limited
On Sale Date: 03/1984
Volume:
Pages: 84
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.99 AUD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 170 mm x 260 mm
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Murray the Cat Fan Club

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Hey look who's here...
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Pages: 1
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Deal with an Outlaw

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ? [Selecciones Ilustradas]
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): John Faith; Speed; Sheriff; Doctor Dolan Gardner; Pat Gardner; Doc; Don (store clerk); Dick;
First Line: John Faith! At last, I've found you!
Synopsis: When Speed confronts popular local storekeeper John Faith for stealing from him, Faith is shot dead and Speed wounded. Knowing he will be blamed and lynched, Speed escapes to the local doctor for help. When the Sheriff comes search, Doctor Dolan Gardner hides his patient and begins to help clear his name. Can they discover who else wanted Faith dead in time to save the dying Speed, who needs a hospital to remove the bullet from near his heart.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: "Selecciones Ilustradas - Derechos reservados - España".
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Wild Bill Hickok's Gunfight at Hayes City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Bill Hickok; Lank; unnamed hombre
Synopsis: A loudmouth hombre claims Marshal Hickok is a coward without his guns. He loses a fist fight and then pulls a gun, but Hickok expected cheating.
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Pages: 4
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Captain Doom vs Robbin Joe Hood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [B.J.]
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas [as Nicholas] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Captain Doom [Elias Dunne]; Robbin' Joe Hood; farmer; Rufe; Cletus; Matthew Simms; Simms' son; Sheriff Smith
Synopsis: Captain Doom fails to convince poor farmers that Robbin' Joe Hood is a murdering thief, not a hero helping starving Mexicans and homesteaders. A boy is sent to warn Hood and Doom follows to his hideout beyond Apache Wall. The Sheriff get some homesteaders to believe Hood is a murderer and a posse is sent to save the boy. Hood captures Doom, but the boy sees Hood manipulates his gang to murder each other for a bigger share of the loot. As the posse arrives, Hood is trapped by his own greed and Doom escapes.
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Pages: 10
Job Number: B-1381
Disclose Notes: Except in the tiltle, the main character is referred to as Robbin' (with an apostrope). The comics.org listing credits the script "as B.J." but there are no initials obvious on this reprint.
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The Masterful Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sheriff Buck Scanlon; Jake; Howard; Miller; Olson; Rufe
Synopsis: Arrogant Buck Scanlon's chance of reelection as sheriff is destroyed when his horse takes revenge for years of maltreatment.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: A-4843
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Badland's Queen Part I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Billy the Kid [Billy Bonney]; Wister; Lucy Thorpe; Krauss; Sheriff; Kelly; Guffy
Synopsis: When Billy the Kid defends Lucy Thorpe, the dead man's gun disappears, and the Kid is accused of murder rather than self-defence. On the run, he discovers Lucy is using threats to cheaply buy land and she seeks to enlist the newly outlawed Kid in her expansion plans.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: [B-1177]
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The Cowboy King Part II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Billy the Kid [Billy Bonney]; Lucy Thorpe; Rico; Gene Haney
Synopsis: Threatened by Lucy, Billy rides to force Gene Haney to sell his ranch cheaply. At his side is Rico, who will dynamite the ranch if Haney refuses. Billy dismisses the thought that Rico looks like the man he killed. Lucy and her gang return to 'buy' the ranch.
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Pages: 5
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On the Dodge Part III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Billy the Kid [Billy Bonney]; Lucy Thorpe; Morrison; Rico [Wister]
Synopsis: With the final deeds in hand, Lucy owns all Sweetgrass. Lucy admits her scheme to Billy and reveals Rico as Wister, the man Billy was framed for murdering. While fighting Rico, a stove sets the house alight. Responding to a message Billy sent via Haney to come when he signalled with smoke, Morrison arrives. Rico is recognised as the man Billy killed and the falsified property deeds burn with the house.
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Pages: 6
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Wanted for Murder: Dan Dawson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sunset Carson; Dan Dawson; Dawson's half sister
First Line: There's one more desert rat for folks to watch out for!
Synopsis: Sunset Carson takes down murder Dan Dawson with the help of Dawson's half sister.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story is headed 'Double-barrel action on the western plains starring Sunset Carson'. The title often used for this story is based on a poster prominent in the first panel, 'Wanted for Murder: Dan Dawson'.
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The Day He Came Back to Greenwood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ? [Selecciones Ilustradas]
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Abe Handerson; Molly Handerson [nee Ferguson]; Sara Handerson; Sam; Bill [also as Matt]; Donovan [also as Mr Sanders]; Mr Hobber; Joe Harmon; Frank Dean; Tom Brian; Bud Saffer; Saffer's gang
Synopsis: After four years fighting in the civil war, Greenwood's former sheriff Abe Handerson returns home. He finds a town where no one recognise him and don't answer to the names he remembers. He begins to believe he has gone mad in the war. A kindly stranger offers him a safe home to recover, but he can't settle. He encounters a stagecoach being robbed. Shooting the gang members, he discovers that they are coming to kill him in revenge. As the coach takes the bodies back to Greenwood, the town's people admit that they have pretended to not know him to save him from the dangerous gang.
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: "Selecciones Ilustradas - Derechos reservados - España". This signature is dated either '63' (most likely) or '69'.

This printing is a new translation compared with the previous KG Murray printings. Handerson is spelled Handersen on page 2 of the story.
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Professor Teddy Woods

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for 12 inch plush Professor Teddy Woods Toy with 'How to Grow Gum Trees' mini book.

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