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Issue: Billy West #4

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Publication Date: November 1949

Issue #4
- #1
- #2
- #3
- ✔ #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
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- Bill West

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Issues: #4 of 8 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: Standard Comics

Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 10 (3 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Content Items (10 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Billy West

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Pages: 1

Notes: Line-art depicting Billy West rescuing damsel in distress from outlaws; realistic/romantic art style.

Get the New Billy West Comic Book!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Billy West

Synopsis: Full page of original art promoting the comic; with small cover reproduction. Comic comes with a Billy West cowboy ring, a four color picture of Billy & horse Eagle, membership card & secret cowboy code.

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Pages: 1

Six-Gun Warning!

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Genres: western

Character(s): Billy West; Susan Dinning; Doc Purdy; Uncle Dan; Molly Sage; Stubby Sage; Julie Sage

First Line: An honest man stepped into a rogue's shoes...

Synopsis: An honest man steps into a rogue's shoes and finds himself on the receiving end of a six-gun warning, but hero Billy rides to his aid.

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Pages: 12

Job Number: B-632

Notes: All comics stories, etc. carry interesting realistic/romantic style artwork, and book is educational. Such books did much to promote cowboys as positive role-model heroes.

Western Twisters

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Multiple single-panels illustrating Western slang terms.
"Coyote" - a cowardly sneak.
"Desert Rat" - a prospector.
"Chow Hound" - one who loves his food.

The Pony Express

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Subject Matter

Genres: informational, non-fiction, western

Character(s): Harry Roff; Alex Carlyle; Pony Bob Haslam; Buffalo Bill Cody

First Line: The Pony Express was organized...

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Pages: 2

Job Number: B-484

Notes: The history of the Pony Express covered in two pages of text, with two nice illustrations, previously credited to 'Charles J. Strong?', but the face in the second one reveals Pete Morisi's style.

The Mysterious Stranger!

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Genres: western

Feature(s): Rhoda Trail

Character(s): Rhoda Trail; Slim Akers; Duchain; Windy

First Line: Rhoda Trail thought things were dull...

Synopsis: Outlaw-fighting newspaper woman for the Sundog Sentinel has her hands full with crooks threatening to dam the water and charge ranchers for it.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: B-660

Join the Billy West Cowboy Club!

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Feature(s): Billy West

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Notes: "Join the Billy West Cowboy Club!" (similar to inside front cover)

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Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Roundup with Billy West

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Pages: 1

Notes: One page with illustrations has West talking to readers about cowboy life.
Also a coded message for club members.

Billy West's Birthday Present!

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Genres: western

Feature(s): Uncle Dan

Character(s): Billy West; Uncle Dan; Snubby Sage; Julie Sage; Rod Finger; Simp Anders

First Line: Now what's got into you young ones?

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Pages: 7

Job Number: B-662

Notes: Numerous comics of various publishers had a back-up feature with an old man spinning yarns to a couple of young wards-- this is one of them. Snubby and Julie listen eagerly to a tale of "Billy West's Birthday Present." (Becomes second Billy West story).

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): The Letter Box

Character(s): Billy West; Molly Sage

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from: Gerald Kalkbrenner, Horace Thomas Gill, Margaret Fite, Linda Shoemaker, Ervin Lewis, Laura Falligant, Bobby Rhodes, Lavetta Braden.