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Series
Best Western 58
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- June 1949
- Cover Titles
- The Million-Dollar Train Robbery!
- Starring
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Two-Gun Kid starring
- Cover Credits
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Syd Shores pencils and inks attributed
Notes: I see this as a Shores/Colan collaboration. The figures are too bulky/massive to be so much Shores. Perhaps there is even some Buscema here, too. Shores always struck me as more lithe and slim in his figures, not so much like these at all. -JVJ
Gene Colan pencils and inks attributed
- Contributions
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Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Issue Overview
Best Western #58 was published in June 1949. It is part of Best Western, a western series that began in 1949.
Cover credits include Syd Shores and Gene Colan. This issue features Two-Gun Kid.
Atlas Tales indexes 5 stories for this issue, including "The Million Dollar-Train Robbery!." Indexed story credits include Syd Shores and John Severin, among others.
Stories
The Million Dollar-Train Robbery!
Credits
Syd Shores pencils attributed (This is a real shop job, with the first three or four pages filled with heavy-set, Buscema-esque figures, which switch to Shores as soon as the TGK shows up in pages 4-7 seem more Shores than anybody else and then the Buscema (possibly Colan)-esque style returns for the last few pages. - JVJ)
John Severin inks guess
Two-Gun Kid
starring
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Doc V.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Doc V.: Creator Credit
Notes: With John Severin in some capacity - Doc V.
A Letter to Our Readers and Their Parents!
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Double Pay-Off
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Blood on the Range!
Credits
John Severin pencils unsigned
John Severin inks guess (I'm pretty sure that this is what John's inks looked like. Some of the signs in the background "Kennedy's", "Jack's", "Powers" indicate Severin did the lettering, which hints that he probably inked it, too. There isn't anything here that is really UN-Severin-like for this era. - JVJ)
The Black Rider
starring
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
The Wicked Wedding!
Credits
Russ Heath pencils unsigned
Russ Heath inks attributed (I'm all but positive that these are Russ's inks. Again, there are indications (the "RH" brand on pg.2 pnl.4) that show that Russ was involved at the ink stage, and I think he did the whole thing. - JVJ)
Kid Colt
starring
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Looking for the full run? Browse the Best Western checklist to see every indexed issue in one place.