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,

Big Town #01 - #50 (1951 - 1958) DC - Comic books [Complete Series]

DC's Big Town comic book ran 50 issues, from January 1951 to March–April 1958. 

The comic book was edited by Whitney Ellsworth, and the contributing artists included Dan Barry, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, John Lehti, Manny Stallman and Alex Toth, with most of the later scripts written by John Broome.

Based on a popular radio program in which Edgar G. Robinson gave voice to Steve Wilson, the crusading editor of a major newspaper in an unnamed town it eventually also became a film, a television series (but without Robinson) and a comic book series at DC.

This would be about as close as DC would come to the then very popular and very disreputable “Crime Comic” genre, most examples of which did not really last all that long.

Big Town however, being based on a popular radio & TV series, and coming from the home of Superman, lasted far longer than average.

During it’s publication in 50’s it served as an outlet for many of the talents 
of the coming Silver-Age.    

Based on the TV and radio show of the same name. This installment includes the following:
"Deadly Nightmare!" ("fighting editor" Steve Wilson, making his DC debut, solves a food poisoning mystery); "Forgotten Men of Skid Row!"; "I Fight Crime with My Camera!"; and "The Flag of Doom!" Scripts by Dave Wood and France E. Herron, pencils by Dan Barry, inks by Sy Barry. Cover by Carmine Infantino and Frank Giacoia. Cover price $0.10.

Big Town
DC, 1951 Series

 Publication Dates:
January 1951 - March-April 1958
Number of Issues Published:  50 (#1 - #50)
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.: 52          Indicia Frequency: monthly

Notes
- Licensed title based on the radio and television shows.

- Actual editors: Jack Schiff (#1-2); Julius Schwartz (#3-50). Script and art credits confirmed by copies of DC editorial records received by Gene Reed from E. Nelson Bridwell in 1986. Changes in the handwriting on the editorial records indicate that Schwartz started keeping the records with one story in issue #3 and all records thereafter. This would indicate that Schwartz took over and finished work on issue #3 and assumed full assignment of script and art and editorial with issue #4.

Authors:

Script:  
Dave Wood, Ed Herron, John Broome, H. T. Elmo, 

Pencils: 
Dan Barry, Henry Boltinoff (signed), Win Mortimer, H. T. Elmo, 
Manny Stallman, Gil Kane, 

Inks: 
Sy Barry,Henry Boltinoff (signed), Win Mortimer, John Giunta, Joe Giella, 
H. T. Elmo, 

https://www.comics.org/series/790/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Town

Cover #08

Cover #50

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Big Town (1951) Comic books Issue #09

Issue  #9

Published     September 1951
Cover Price     0.10 USD
Pages     52
Editing     Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Details : " Steven Wilson  Races into..."
Pencils     Alex Toth
Inks      Alex Toth

 10 page Big Town story  "The Tin Hero of Big Town" 
Script  Dave Wood     Pencils  John Lehti
Inks  Sy Barry

 10 page  Big Town story "Mystery Mansion" 

Pencils John Lehti Inks  Bernard Sachs

 8 page Johnny Law story "Johnny Law vs. Johnny Lawless"

Pencils Irwin Hasen      Inks Frank Giacoia

 9 page Big Town story "Beauty and Bullets"

Script Dave Wood      Pencils John Lehti

Inks  Frank Giacoia

  Text Story  Three O'Clock in the morning (2 pages)

Credits  Script  M. Sarafianos
   Letters: typeset

 

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Big Town (1951) Comic books Issue #08

Issue   #8

Published     August 1951
Cover Price     0.10 USD
Pages     52
Editing     Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Details : " Steven Wilson  Big Town's..."
Pencils     John Lehti
Inks     Sy Barry

 10 page Big Town story "The Target of the Underworld"
Script Dave Wood
Pencils John Lehti

Inks Frank Giacoia

 10 page Big Town story "The Man Who Died Yesterday"

 Script Dave Wood

Pencils John Lehti

Inks Sy Barry

 8 page Johnny Law story "The Network of Crime"

Pencils Irwin Hasen

Inks Frank Giacoia 

 10 page Big Town story "The Case of the Stolen Face"

Script Miriam Hecht

Pencils John Lehti

Inks Joe Giella

 Text Story   Parrot Fever (2 pages)

Credits  Script  M. Sarafianos
   Letters: typeset

 

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Big Town (1951) Comic books Issue #07

Issue     #7
Published     July 1951
Cover Price     0.10 USD
Pages     52
Editing     Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Details : "Ace news man Steven Wilson..."
Pencils     John Lehti
Inks     Sy Barry

10 page Big Town story  "Secrets of Big Town" 

Script     Miriam Hecht

Pencils     John Lehti

Inks     Frank Giacoia

10 page Big Town story  "The Mystery of Room 1313" 

Script     Bill Finger

Pencils     John Lehti

Inks     Sy Barry

8 page Johnny Law story "Crime on the Record"

Pencils     Irwin Hasen

Inks   Irwin Hasen

10 page Big Town story  "Obituaries for Sale"
Script     Dave Wood

Pencils     John Lehti

Inks     Joe Giella

 Text Story   Thry buildanything in hour (2 pages)

Credits    Letters: typeset

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