Six-Gun Heroes #62 for Sale - First Appearance of The Gunmaster - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Six-Gun Heroes (Charlton, 1954 series)
Issue: #62
Publication date: April 1961
Key date: 1961-04-00
On-sale date: 1960-12-27
Indicia publisher: Charlton Comics Group
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Gunmaster - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Clay Boone - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	0.8	pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano	Clay Boone First, Wyatt Earp, The Gunmaster First, Wild Bill Hickok
2	-	comic story	5	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Charles Nicholas; inks: Vince Alascia	Clay Boone First, The Gunmaster First
3	The Buffalo Men	comic story	5	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio	Wyatt Earp
4	The Eliminator	comic story	7	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Molno; inks: Vince Alascia	Wild Bill Hickok
5	Crossfire	comic story	3	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Molno; inks: Vince Alascia	Clamp Murdock (a Ranger); Tom (a Ranger, poses as Shep Devlin); Blacky Rivers (villain); Ticktock Charlie (villain)
6	His Lordship Was a Cowboy	text story	1.8	letters: typeset	Bon (narrator); Cecil (Bon's brother, mentioned); Thomas (Bon's brother, mentioned); Antone; Mat; Nat; Pete; Sam; Dick (Bon's horse); Loco (a mustang)
7	-	statement of ownership	0.2	script: Patrick J. Masulli
8	The Brain Job	comic story	3	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio	Deputy Charlie Webb; John Peters (bank watchman); unnamed bank president; Cal Eastland (villain); Puncher Haas (villain)

Plus 0.2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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