Blazing West

 BHQI   (ACG, 1948-1952)

™ and ©1950 Michel Publications, Inc.
Series continues in The Hooded Horseman #21

American Comics Group published primarily non-super-hero titles from 1943-1967. Although they did venture into super-heroes with Magicman and Nemesis—and super-hero parody with Herbie, the Fat Fury—during the craze inspired by the Batman TV series of the mid-1960s, ACG stayed the course with funny animal, teen humor, horror, science fiction, adventure, and war comics. ACG’s western offerings were The Hooded Horseman and Blazing West.

Blazing West was an anthology title that ran for twenty-two issues, from 1948-1952, and featured such gun-toting stalwarts as “Injun” Jones, a white man who was a friend to the Apache tribe; Bantam Buckaroo, a young boy billed as “ninety pounds of pure TNT”; Buffalo Belle, a fiery female gunfighter; and the Hooded Horseman, a mysterious, Lone Ranger-type hero who was introduced in issue #14 of the series.

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  9/1/1948 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $85.00 No copies available	1st Appearance of Injun Jones; Fall 1948
	#2 Date:  11/1/1948 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $48.00 No copies available
	#3 Date:  1/1/1949 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $36.00 No copies available
	#4 Date:  3/1/1949 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $36.00 No copies available			Leonard Starr
	#5 Date:  5/1/1949 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $36.00 No copies available
	#6 Date:  7/1/1949 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available
	#7 Date:  9/1/1949 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available
	#8 Date:  11/1/1949 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available
	#9 Date:  1/1/1950 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available
	#10 Date:  3/1/1950 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available
	#11 Date:  5/1/1950 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $24.00 No copies available
	#12 Date:  7/1/1950 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $24.00 No copies available
	#13 Date:  9/1/1950 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $24.00 No copies available
	#14 Date:  11/1/1950 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $58.00 No copies available	1st Appearance of The Hooded Horseman; Origin of The Hooded Horseman
	#15 Date:  1/1/1951 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available
	#16 Date:  3/1/1951 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $24.00 No copies available
	#17 Date:  5/1/1951 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $24.00 No copies available
	#18 Date:  7/1/1951 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $22.00 No copies available
	#19 Date:  9/1/1951 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $22.00 No copies available			Leonard Starr
	#20 Date:  11/1/1951 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $22.00 No copies available	Series continued in The Hooded Horseman (1st Series) #21		Leonard Starr, Charles Sultan