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The Dalton Boys #1

Jan 1951 · Avon · 0.10 USD
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The Dalton Boys, wanted for murder, execute an elaborate scheme to rob a Wells Fargo stagecoach by hiding beneath a flour sack in a coach. After commandeering the vehicle and stealing the treasure box, they escape into the wilderness, where Black Bart—a rival outlaw—intercepts them and attempts to claim the stolen goods for himself. A violent confrontation ensues between the gangs, with Black Bart ultimately defeated, though the story ends with tensions rising as competing outlaws threaten each other over the spoils and territorial control of the feed business.

Contains 6 stories
Wanted for Murder!
7 pp · Western-Frontier

Three gunslinging brothers—Grat, Bob, and Emmett—ride the outlaw trail after robbing a train, but their camp becomes a death trap when a rancher tips off the law to their whereabouts. As the posse closes in and tragedy strikes, the surviving brothers must fight their way to the legendary hideout known as the Hole in the Wall, only to discover that freedom and justice have their own brutal prices in the wild frontier.

Black Bart, Wells-Fargo's Shotgun Partner!
7 pp · Western-Frontier

When a refined drifter arrives in Sonora with a shotgun, a linen duster, and a flour sack, he launches a brazen campaign against Wells Fargo's gold shipments—leaving poetry in the treasure boxes he plunders and terror in the hearts of drivers who face his relentless determination. Black Bart commands respect not through gunplay or horsemanship, but through audacity and cunning, always staying a step ahead of the agents sent to bring him down. This tale captures the rise of the West's most unusual outlaw, a man who walks where others ride and outsmarts every pursuit sent his way.

Poetry in Lead!
7 pp · Western-Frontier

When Wells Fargo's treasure coaches start getting hit by a smooth-talking outlaw known as Black Bart, the company brings in extra guards—but this hooded bandit has a talent for turning every robbery into a deadly game of wits, complete with mocking verse left behind in emptied strongboxes. As Bart's wounds heal and his robberies grow bolder, Wells Fargo raises the stakes with more firepower, yet he always seems to have one more trick up his sleeve. Will the company finally corner this one-man menace, or does Black Bart have one last clever escape waiting in the hills?

Cortez Brought Horses to America
1 pp · Non-Fiction

In 1521, Cortez arrives in North America with the first horses ever seen on the continent, creatures that prove instrumental in his military campaign against the Aztec ruler Montezuma. Over time, these horses escape or spread northward into Texas, where they multiply and eventually scatter across the American West, fundamentally changing how Native peoples would travel and live for centuries to come.

Gold Makes a Ghost Town!
8 pp · Western-Frontier

When a prospector named Tim Planter returns to Range City after months away, he finds it transformed into a lawless den ruled by the ruthless Red Busher, who's bent on controlling every business in town through intimidation and violence. After Red's brutal attack leaves Tim's brother Jed mortally wounded, Tim discovers something far more valuable than revenge—gold along Roaring River—and decides to share the discovery with the desperate townspeople. What unfolds is a tale of greed, ambition, and the unexpected way fortune can reshape a frontier town's fate.

Cowboys of the World
1 pp · Non-Fiction

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $74
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $911*
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $224*
CGC 7.5 none in existence
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CGC 7.0 none in existence
CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $128*
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $109*
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 2 in census $88*
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $65*
CGC 3.5 · 2 in census $59*
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $51
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $37*
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Full credits

artist John Forte
cover pencils, inks Everett Raymond Kinstler

Reprints

↩ Reprints Cow Puncher Comics #7 (1949)

Reprinted in Cow Puncher Comics #7 (1949), Outlaws of the Wild West #1 (1952), Jesse James #15 (1953), Blazing Sixguns #9 (1958), Butch Cassidy #1 (1971), Kit Carson Comics #1

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