Showing posts with label Gil Kane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gil Kane. Show all posts

Friday, 2 May 2025

Don Caballero from All Star Western (1951). ¿¿ & Gil Kane (#58-#65) - Compiled by A. Wallace

 Don Caballero

Pages from All Star Western (DC) magazine (1951 -1952)

 Everyone hailed him as Don Caballero, "Maestro Of The Blade"
for the handsome gallant swordsman was the finest fencing teacher 
in Old California, 
but now he has to prove his mettle in a contest with an opponent 
whose slightest touch meant death...
 in the amazing...

Authors:

Script:  ? 

Pencils & Inks: Gil Kane


Summary

#58  Duel at Hawk Hill!    (8 pages)
#59 Fury in the Desert!   (8 pages)
#60  The Sword of Flame!   (10 pages)
#61  Don Caballero Meets the Jackal!  (7'67 pages)
#62 The Vanishing Swordsman!  (3.67 pages)
#63 The Sorceress and the Swordsman!  (5.66 pages)
#64 One-Man Justice !   (5.67 pages)
#65 Four Fearful Swordsmen!   (5.67 pages)

56 Pages





Compiled by A. Wallace 


Monday, 14 April 2025

All Star Western (V2) #01 – #11 (1970 - 1972) DC - Complete Series


1970 Series
Publisher: DC
Publication Dates: August-September 1970 / April-May 1972
Number of Issues Published: 11 (#1 – #11) 
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine
Pages: 52    Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly
Tracking
Numbering continues with Weird Western Tales (DC, 1972 series) #12

Characters:
 Pow-Wow Smith; Outlaw; El Diablo, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, 
Davy Crockett, Jonah Hex, Bat Lash,

The series was revived in the following decade, and ran 11 bimonthly issues (Sept. 1970 – May 1972) before changing its title and, slightly its format to become Weird Western Tales. All-Star Western vol. 2, #1 starred Pow-Wow Smith, scripted by John Broome, with art by Carmine Infantino. The next four starred the characters Outlaw and El Diablo. With issue #5, the character Outlaw was dropped, with the cover logo “Outlaw” now referring to the replacement-feature star, Billy the Kid. The Western “all-stars” now included such historical characters as Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Davy Crockett, in a mix of new stories and reprints, as well as DC stalwarts Pow-Wow Smith, El Diablo and Bat Lash.

Issue #10 (February–March 1972) introduced the enduring and popular character Jonah Hex, created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga (Tony de Zúñiga). Hex continued as the star of the comic when it changed its name to Weird Western Tales with issue #12 (July 1972), and he continued into issue #38 (Feb. 1977) of the 59-issue series.

 Authors: 

Script :
John Broome, Robert Kanigher, 

Gil Kane, Denny O'Neil, John Albano, Sergio Aragonés (plot); Len Wein (dialogue)
Pencils: 
Carmine Infantino (signed), Neal Adams, 
Tony DeZuniga (Tony de Zúñiga), Jim Aparo (signed),
Gray Morrow, Alan Weiss, Joe Kubert, John Prentice,
Gil Kane

Inks:
Carmine Infantino (signed), Joe Giella, Neal Adams,Tony DeZuniga (Tony de Zúñiga, 
Gray Morrow, Gil Kane (signed), Jim Aparo (signed), Dick Giordano, Joe Kubert, John Prentice
 
Letters:
Gaspar Saladino, Ray Holloway ?, Milt Snapinn, John Costanza










Saturday, 5 April 2025

All Star Western (V1) #58 – #119 (1951 – 1961) DC - Complete Series





 1951 Series

Publisher: DC
Publication Dates: April-May 1951 – June-July 1961
Number of Issues Published: 62 (#58 – #119)
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.; Later Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine
Pages: 36    Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly

Tracking:
Numbering continues from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #57

Notes
Indicia title:
All-Star Western - #58-59
All Star Western - #60-119

Script and art credits for stories and fillers verified from copies of DC editorial records.


All-Star Western was the name of three American comic book series published by DC Comics, each a Western fiction omnibus featuring both continuing characters and anthological stories. The first ran from 1951 to 1961, the second from 1970 to 1972 and the third was part of The New 52 and ran from September 2011 to August 2014.


Vol. 1

The original All-Star Western began with #58 (May 1951), having taken over the number of its predecessor title, All Star Comics — a superhero omnibus that years before had introduced the enduring team the Justice Society of America. With the postwar decline in the popularity of superheroes, publisher DC Comics changed the series format and title. All-Star Western ran 62 bimonthly issues through #119 (July 1961). The cover logo did not include a hyphen until issue #108 (Sept. 1959), when it was much reduced in size and placed above the much larger logo for what was then the title feature, “Johnny Thunder”. Johnny Thunder remained on the cover until the final issue, #119, occasionally sharing it with Madame .44, “the masked outlaw queen.”

The first issue contained the features “The Trigger Twins”, created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino and running through #116; “Don Caballero”, drawn by Gil Kane, and “Roving Ranger”, penciled by Alex Toth, the writer-creator uncredited; and “Strong Bow”, created by writer David Wood and artist Frank Giacoia. Other features that appeared through the years included “Super-Chief”, by writer Gardner Fox and artist Infantino; and, beginning with #67 (Nov. 1952), “Johnny Thunder”, featuring the masked, vigilante persona of a schoolteacher in an Old West Mormon settlement. The character had been created by writer Kanigher and artist Toth in DC’s All-American Comics in 1948.


Authors:
Script
Robert Kanigher (sourced), Dave Wood 
Pencils
Carmine Infantino (sourced), Gil Kane ("Don Caballero"), 
Frank Giacoia (signed),
Alex Toth ("The Roving Ranger") ,
Inks
Joe Giella ("The Roving Ranger"), Frank Giacoia,  Gil Kane, 
Bernard Sachs ("Don Caballero"),  Frank Giacoia (signed), Alex Toth,









Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Tarzan. The Complete Sunday Pages Series (1979-1981) Archie Goodwin / Gil Kane - Compiled by Voltaire57



 Gil Kane is more celebrated here. It must be said that he was also a great.
We saw him on Superman, Spiderman, Green Lantern, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, etc...
In short, a whole section of the history of comics is linked to the on
e who was born, we know it less, in Latvia.

We find him here in the complete Sunday Pages that he made for Tarzan.
It was after the death of Russ Manning, one of the best, if not the best designer
of the ape-man even though the competition with Hogarth and Foster was fierce






More information about "Comics Compilations made by Voltaire57"  HERE

Thanks to Voltaire 57 for these magnificent albums


Thursday, 6 January 2022

Atomic Man Complete Collection by FraBig

 First 4 stories by Charles Voight, whose semi-comic style I always enjoyed. 

The others are by Gil Kane [as Bekay] (signed), who swapped out Atomic Man's skirt for a Speedo

These are from Headline Comics (Prize, 1946).

Atomic-Man is an American fictional superhero created by Charles Voight who appeared in Headline Comics from issue #16 (Nov/Dec 1945) to #21 (Sept/Oct 1946) which were published by Prize Comics. He is often credited for being the first atomic superhero.

Dr. Adam Mann is experimenting with uranium-235 in the aftermath of the first Atomic Bomb being used in Hiroshima. During the experiment he finds himself being subjected to a strange side effect which changes his body. He finds that he has been changed into a new type of being, a being who was not only immune to most lethal radiations but was also immune to electricity, 
flame and even bullets.

In addition to the change in his body he also found he now possessed many different powers. These superpowers of his included the ability to see radiations which were previously invisible to normal humans. His right also now also emitted a large amount of Gamma radiation which allowed him to perform a number of superhuman deeds like punching through brick walls using energy blasts and controlling the minds of other people. 
When not using his powers he wore a lead glove in his hand to curtail the powers of radiation so as not to harm others.

Knowing that the element that had given him his powers could and would be used by others for evil he took the identity of Atomic - Man and dedicated himself to fighting those who might who would try to pervert it’s use, along with any other criminals, mad scientists or communists who fell under the glow of his right hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic-Man

ATOMIC MAN COMPLETE COLLECTION

- Headline Comics #16 Nov-Dec 1945

- Headline Comics #17 Jan-Feb 1946

- Headline Comics #18 Mar-Apr 1946

- Headline Comics #19 May-Jun 1946

- Headline Comics #20 Jul-Aug 1946

- Headline Comics #21 Sep-Oct 1946



Thanks to FraBig for this compilation

 Enjoy!

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