BILLY THE KID Volume 1 Hardcover

Collects Masked Raider #6-9 and Billy the Kid #9-10, 1957.

One of Charlton's very best titles from their stable of westerns. For comic books Billy went from outlaw to hero. He made his first appearance in Masked Raider #6 (February 1957). He took over the title with #9 (November 1957) and ran for another 147 issues, competing with Marvel's western titles and surviving nearly all of them! Regular contributors included writer Joe Gill and artists Maurice Whitman, Dick Giordano, Rocke Mastroserio, Bill Molno, and Charles Nicholas. Collected here: his first five complete issues.Billy's run reached all the way to 1983! And in later volumes maybe we'll see surprise work by EC veterans John Severin and Al Williamson, as well as Peter Morisi. However, these three are NOT in this first collection.Although many of these artists don't come along until later issues, Al Williamson will show up in #15, which should be in Volume 2. However, if you look at the contributors in this volume, it's an impressive lineup, from Giordano to Maurice Whitman.