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WESTERN COMICS #76

Cover Date: July-August 1959
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1959-05-05

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Joe Giella


Story: "Attack of the Silent Avenger!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtCarmine Infantino
LetteringJoe Letterese
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Pow-Wow Smith

Villain(s):

Chief Red Eagle (first appearance; head of an outlaw group of Pawnee; uses stage illusions to help him escape)
Spotted Horse (first appearance; medicine man of a group of Pawnee; uses stage illusions to help Red Eagle to escape)

Other Character(s):

Deputy Jim Hathaway

Location(s):

Elkhorn

Comment(s):

Spotted Horse uses "magic mushrooms" to cause Pow-Wow and Jim to have hallucinations.

Story Reprinted in:

Super DC Giant #S-15 (September-October 1971)


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Second Story: "A Jailbird Named Nighthawk" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsGil Kane
InksBernard Sachs
LetteringJoe Letterese
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Nighthawk

Villain(s):

Ab Jones and his gang (first appearance for all; tricks sheriff into putting Hannibal in jail, thinking he is Nighthawk)

Location(s):

Eagle City, Arizona Territory

Comment(s):

Wyoming Kid is mentioned.


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Third Story: "Secret of the Toy Pistol" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHoward Sherman
LetteringJoe Letterese
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Wyoming Kid

Villain(s):

Rafe Davis and his partner (first appearance for both)
Two outlaws (first appearance for both; try to rob a stagecoach before Davis can do it)

Location(s):

near Silver Bend, CO

Comment(s):

This story probably takes place after 1876.


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