Sun #003 - #004 - #005 - #006 J. B. Allen, 1947 Series

The Sun (originally simply Sun) was comic launched on 11 November 1947 

by publisher J. B. Allen,
 changing from weekly to fortnightly during its run. 

It had previously been a health magazine called Fitness and Sun. 

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Sun #001 - #026 (Various issues) 1947 - 1949 J. B. Allen

The Sun (originally simply Sun) was comic launched on 11 November 1947 by publisher
 J. B. Allen, changing from weekly to fortnightly during its run.
 It had previously been a health magazine called Fitness and Sun. 

The publisher was taken over by the Amalgamated Press in 1949, and under the first editor
 Leonard Matthews it featured fewer humour strips and more adventure ones.
It ran until 17 October 1959,
when it was merged into Lion. Len Wenn was a later editor.

Sun : A later issue with a new cover strip.

J. B. Allen, 1947 Series

Published in English (United Kingdom)  United Kingdom

Publication Dates:  1947 - 1949

Number of Issues Published:  41 (#01 - #558)

Color:

Red & Green Front Cover; Red & Green Back Cover; Red & Green Centrefold; Black & White Interior

Dimensions:  91/2"x 121/4"

Paper Stock:  Newsprint

Binding:  Loose Pages

Publishing Format:  Was ongoing series

Tracking:

numbering continues with Sun Comic (Amalgamated Press), 1949 series) #42

 numbering continues with Sun (Amalgamated Press, 1952 series) #164

Note:

Early issues titled (Fitness and) Sun

Script:  ? Pencils: ? Inks:  ? Colors:  ? Editing:  ?

Strips included:

    "Addy"
    "Ali Barber" (Frank Minnitt)
    "Battler Britton" (Geoff Campion)
    "Billy the Kid" (Geoff Campion, Don Lawrence, Alejandro Blasco, Harry Bishop)
    "Buck Jones"
    "Clip McCord, Special Agent" (Reg Bunn)
    "Deed-a-Day Danny" (Hugh McNeill)
    "Dick Turpin" (Mike Butterworth, Hugh McNeill, 1951-54)
    "Formula 'X'"
    "Harold Hare" (Harry Hargreaves)
    "Jak of the Jaguars" (Patrick Nicolle)
    "John and Joan" (R. W. Plummer)
    "Johnny Conquest" (Gino D'Antonio)
    "Kindheart"
    "Lancelot Lake" (Hugh McNeill)
    "Max Bravo" (Mike Butterworth and Eric Parker)
    "Mike" (Eric Roberts)
    "Moko the Monk" (Robert MacGillivray)
    "Ollie" (Harry Hargreaves)
    "Patsy and Tim" (Eric Parker)
    "Robin Hood" (Reg Beaumont)
    "Roy Rogers"
    "Sherwood Outlaw" (Reg Beaumont)
    "Simon the Simple Sleuth" (Hugh McNeill)
    "Sitting Bull"
    "Sparks and Flash" (Roland Davies)
    "Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit" (Norman Ward)
    "The Swiss Family Robinson" (Bob Wilkin)
    "The Terrible Three" (Martin Clifford)
    "Voyage to Venus"
    "Wild Bill Hickok" (D. C. Eyles)
    "Young Joey" (Hugh McNeill)

Big Town (1951) Comic books Issue #02

Issue     #2
Published     February 1951
Cover Price     0.10 USD
Pages     52
Editing     Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Details  "In this issue:..."
Pencils     Dan Barry
Inks     Dan Barry

10 page Big Town story "The Flying City Room"
Script     France Herron
Pencils     Dan Barry
Inks     Sy Barry

10 page Big Town story "The Gangster Boss of Small Town"
Script     France Herron
Pencils     Dan Barry
Inks     Sy Barry

1 page Casey the Cop filler "the  jitterbus"

Genre  gag

Script  Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils  Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks  Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Letters  Gaspar Salidino

8 page Johnny Law story "The Dubious Alibi"
Pencils     Win Mortimer
Inks     Win Mortimer

10 page Big Town story "The Human Bomb"
Script     France Herron
Pencils     Dan Barry
Inks     Sy Barry
Notes     cover story
Reprinted  in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #445

 

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Big Town (1951) Comic books Issue #01

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.

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, 

Issue #01

Published January 1951

Cover Price 0.10

Pages 52

Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "Boys, We're Going To Get Out That Extra--..."

Genre crime; detective; drama

Pencils Carmine Infantino

Inks Frank Giacoia

10 page Big Town story "Flag of Doom"

Script France Herron

Pencils Dan Barry

Inks Sy Barry

10 page Big Town story "Forgotten Men of Skid Row"

Script Dave Wood

Pencils Dan Barry

Inks Sy Barry

8 page story "I Fight Crime with My Camera"

Characters Jim Springer

Synopsis A criminal steals uranium and only crime photographer Jim Springer has a clue where it's hidden.

Pencils Ruben Moreira

Notes Pencil credit supplied by Gary Watson, August 2008.

1 page Casey the Cop filler "coldest day of the winter"

Genre gag

Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Letters Gaspar Salidino

1 page Superboy public service announcement "How to Bring Christmas Cheer"

Genre superhero

Script Jack Schiff

Pencils Win Mortimer

Inks Win Mortimer

2 page story "The Open Door"

Script Ewald Ludwig

Letters typeset

10 page Big Town story "Deadline Nightmare"

Script  Dave Wood

Pencils  Dan Barry

Inks  Sy Barry

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Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #04 (Four Color #557)

Publication November 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages:36

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits Pencils:? (painting) | Inks:? (painting) | Colors:? (painting)

Content Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie

Text Article Snowshoe Making (1 page)

Synopsis Directions on making frontier-style snowshoes.

Credits Letters: typeset

Content Genre: Non-fiction

Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text.

Comic Story Surrounded (17 pages)

Synopsis Ben and Jim visit Jed Turner's trading post, which is located on an island in a lake. They find the post deserted and upon investigation find Jed's wife and child in a canoe. Jed has been captured by hostile Huron Indians. Later Ben and Jim narrowly escape capture by an Algonquian war party. Late in the night, Ben and Jim rescue Ned and in the morning the Hurons and Algonquians engage in a battle.

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits Pencils: William Overgard | Inks: William Overgard

Content Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice

Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Comic Story Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men and The Earth Mounds (16 pages)

Synopsis Ben and his men escort two government surveyors into the uncharted Northwest Territory to reach the 82nd Meridian.

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits Pencils: William Overgard | Inks: William Overgard

Content Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah

Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Publisher advertisement Three Brand New Dell Comics...

Credits Letters: typeset

Content Characters: Turok (cameo); Captain Davy Jones (cameo); Sir Lancelot (cameo)

Notes On bottom of last interior page in middle of sequence 3 story. Promo for Dell adventure comics. Line drawings of the painted covers to Turok Four Color #596; Captain Davy Jones Four Color #598, and Sir Lancelot Four Color #606 are depicted in part.

Coming soon: Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #05 (Four Color #599) 

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Tex. The Lonesome Rider by Joe Kubert & Claudio Nizzi (2005)

 

 American icon Joe Kubert and Italian writer Claudio Nizzi collaborated on the exhilarating western Tex: 

The Lonesome Rider

 at the turn of the century--and this standalone graphic novel is now available to a wider English-language audience! 

Tex hunts down four ruthless killers who massacred a peaceful farming family, using his detective skills, ranger's experience, and brute force to track down his targets! However, each killer is cunning and skilled in his own right! This is the first U.S. edition of a graphic novel that was drawn by Kubert in the early 2000s!

Joe Kubert: Comic Books Are My Destiny

by Graziano Frediani

In 1994, when Claudio Nizzi started working on the dramatic, highly
tense story “The Lonesome Rider,” the intention was to publish this
work not only in Italy but also, within a couple of years,
 in the UnitedStates. 
This consideration for a different kind of reader also posed
some additional narrative problems: how can descendants of
Uncle Sam understand (or better: how can they believe in) the
interesting figure of Tex, who is not only a representative of
the white civilization but also, for all purposes, a respected
Chieftain of a Native American tribe?

 

 And then, there was
Kit Carson: an “old camel,” always complaining but fearless,
who had nothing to do with the real Kit Carson who
went into the annals of the American Frontier as an
astute scout and capable politician, but also as a
cynical mass murderer of Indians. This led to the
decision -— interesting, in any case -- to put the Ranger
on the scene without his pards, a lonesome rider about
whom -- similar to the legendary film character Shane
made famous by Alan Ladd’s strong interpretation --
one doesn’t know where he came from nor where he is
going, but who is ready to face any danger, no matter
where, no matter when, to realize his goal: to bring to justice four bloodthirsty
murderers who brutally slaughtered an innocent girl and her family...(It continues in interior pages) 

 Writer:   Claudio Nizzi
Artist:    Joe Kubert   
SAF Comics
Publication Date:  March 18, 2015

240 pages