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

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,