American Update: The Atlas Explosion! Double-Barreled Western Adventure – Arizona Kid and Outlaw Fighters
*Western: Two short-run series for fans of the Wild West this week, beginning with the Arizona Kid, in which 17-year old Davy Larabee rescues Captain Cliff Macklin from outlaws, earning a coveted place in the Texas Rangers – but his first assignment is to track down a Ranger gone bad! Russ Heath provided much of the interior art for this series, and we have five of the six-issue run of this 1951 launch now in stock, although the first and fifth issues are Canadian editions – but the content is identical to their US counterparts. A few years later, in 1954, Outlaw Fighters graced the newsstands for five issues, all now in our lists; this anthology offered a more diverse range of illustrators than most Atlas westerns – Benulis, Greene, Pakula, Hartley, Shores, Colan, Tumlinson and Forgione – though Maneely and Heath were still roped in for cover duty. Pictured are Arizona Kid 4 (VG+ £24) and Outlaw Fighters #2 (VG £17); for details of the rest, please consult our online catalogue.