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WHAT IF: Black Rider Vol. 1

Map by Chris Leazer: reprints All Western Winners #2-4, Western Winners #5-7, Black Rider #8-9 (230 pages)

Winter/48: All Western Winners #2 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Syd Shores (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Black Rider

  • "Introducing The Black Rider: The Syndicate Of Six-Gun Terror!" (9 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Lazy Lawman" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • Two-Gun Kid

  • "Burning Brands Of Doom!" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Russ Heath (pencils); Russ Heath (inks)

  • "Hi Friends" (1 page editorial)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Kid Colt, Outlaw

  • "Riddle Of The Star Cross!" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

February/49: All Western Winners #3 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)
  • Black Rider

  • "Blast the Black Rider Down" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)

  • Two-Gun Kid

  • "Big Bend Bad Men Ride Again" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores? (pencils); Syd Shores? (inks)

  • text story

  • "Last Ride" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • Kid Colt, Outlaw

  • "Unknown" (7 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

April/49: All Western Winners #4 (30 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)
  • Black Rider

  • "The Black Rider Unmasked" (11 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Kid Colt, Outlaw

  • "Reward for Death" (10 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "Wild Horses of the Western Plains" (1 page)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Trail Drive" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "A Letter to Readers and Their Parents!" (1 page editorial)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Two-Gun Kid

  • "The Kid Bluffs a Killer" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

June/49: Western Winners #5 (27 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)
  • Two-Gun Kid

  • "I Challenged the Army!!" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Russ Heath (pencils); Russ Heath (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Silver Lode Mystery" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • Black Rider

  • "The Mystery of the Polls of Peril" (10 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)

  • Kid Colt, Outlaw

  • "Dead Man's Justice" (7 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

August/49: Western Winners #6 (24 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: John Severin (pencils); Joe Maneely? (inks)
  • Two-Gun Kid

  • "The Cobra Strikes" (6 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)

  • Kid Colt, Outlaw

  • "The Injun's Revenge" (11 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Russ Heath (pencils); Russ Heath (inks)

  • text story

  • "Ranch Holiday" (3 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • Black Rider

  • "Mountain of Mystery" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)

December/49: Western Winners #7 (25 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Photo Cover
  • "Chance Pagan / Sam Bass" (9 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "They Called Him a Coward!" (7 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Marshall" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "Rip Kilgore" (7 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

March/50: Black Rider #8 (26 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Photo Cover
  • Black Rider

  • "The Mystery of the Valley of Giants!" (19 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • "The Fastest Rising Star in Movies" (1 page house ad)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "The Story of Bullet Ben" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • Nimo the Mountain Lion

  • "The Spotted Invader!" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

June/50: Black Rider #9 (40 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Joe Maneely (pencils); Joe Maneely (inks)
  • Black Rider

  • "Wrath of the Redskins!" (10 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Black Rider

  • "On the Trail of the Fox!" (7 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • text story

  • "Gold Lust" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)

  • "The Silent Killer!" (3 pages)

  • Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Black Rider

  • "The Impossible Problem!" (6 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Nimo the Mountain Lion

  • "Menace from the Sky!" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)

  • Black Rider

  • "The Secret of the Human Cargo!" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Unknown (inks)

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