DRAW! Facts About Gun-Fighting

There's nothing quite like a well-done historical feature...

...especially when it's drawn by fantasy illustration legend Frank Frazetta, when he was just starting out in 1950!

Here's a really cool bonus...the original art for the feature...

This feature appeared twice within six months in John Wayne Adventures #2 and Billy the Kid #1.
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DEATH VALLEY "Inferno"

Despite the fact this story appeared in a comic called Death Valley...

...it doesn't take place in Death Valley, nor did the Real-Life Westerner the tale is about ever go to Death Valley!

Billy the Kid has been one of the most popular (and controversial) Real-Life Westerners ever to appear in the media.

Portrayed as everything from a psychopathic killer to a misunderstood teen-ager, he's been the subject of movies, radio and TV shows (both as the title character, and as a guest-star), theatre productions, novels, and no less than a half-dozen comic book titles as well as several hundred comic stories.

(He even fought Dracula in the 1966 b-movie Billy the Kid vs Dracula and traveled thru time in an episode of The Time Tunnel!)
This particular never-reprinted tale was published in Comic Media's Western anthology series Death Valley #1 (1953), penciled by Ross Andru and inked by Mike Esposito.
The writer is unknown.

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"Billy the Kid"

There are many theories as to how the legendary gunfighter Billy the Kid died...

...but this one is probably the most outlandish!

Billy the Kid has been one of the most popular (and controversial) Real-Life Westerners ever to appear in the media.

Portrayed as everything from a psychopathic killer to a misunderstood teen-ager, he's been the subject of movies, radio and TV shows (both as the title character, and as a guest-star), theatre productions, novels, and no less than a half-dozen comic book titles as well as several hundred comic stories.

(He even fought Dracula in the 1966 b-movie Billy the Kid vs Dracula and traveled thru time in an episode of The Time Tunnel!)

This one-shot tale, illustrated by George Woodbridge appeared in Masked Ranger #6 (1955), and was Woodbridge's first published comics work!

He later became one of the mainstays of MAD Magazine, as well as a military history illustrator noted for his accuracy in rendering uniforms and weapons.

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BILLY NEVADA "No-Gun Sheriff"

Some consider it a noble ambition to be totally non-violent...

...in the Old West, that noble ambition can land you in Boot Hill...unless you have a guardian angel packing shooting irons!

From Skywald's Butch Cassidy #1, published in 1971.
It's believed to be an unused story from the Billy the Kid comic published in the 1950s by Toby Press, relettering "Billy the Kid" into "Billy Nevada".
Pencils by Don Heck, but the inkers are unknown.
The style varies every couple of pages, with only the last two pages looking like Heck's own inking.

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