European Westerns ~ Collana eroi del West

 

Bill West

Bill West was Small-format strip-style comic booklet of medium length (80–96 pages). The series primarily bears the Bill West masthead and reprints Bill West (reproduced from Lone Ranger film stories), Roger Falco by Svan, Guida, and Carretti (Gui-Car), Gordon Short by Annibale Casabianca, Buffaletto Bill by Giovanni Benvenuti, Jim West by Vincenzo Chiomenti, and Zeffirino by Enver Bongrani. Issues #2, #3, #5, #6, and #7 feature standalone stories by Casabianca, originally drawn from the Albi Condor series (Cecchini, 1955).

There also exists a special series with soft covers, priced at 30 Lire, which reprints Roger Falco by Svan and Carretti and Buffaletto Bill by Buzzelli; these were produced using the printing plates from the Eroi Dell’Avventura series (Flaminia, 1962).

Bill West was published from1953-1965 by OMG in Milan, Italy with issue #1 being released in January 1963 and ending with issue #16 in 1965. Each issue contained 96 black and white pages with color covers.

 

Titles

01 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Bill West in Evasione") (Bill West: The Escape)

02 - "Colt 45" (Colt .45)

03 - "FW-57 chiama Jungla" (tit. int. "Missione senza ritorno") (Mission of No Return)

04 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Roger Falco - Il ratto di Marion") (Roger Falco: The

        Abduction of Marion)

05 - "Furore al Messico" (Fury in Mexico)

06 - "La confraternita dei dannati" (The Brotherhood of the Damned)

07 - "La valle della morte" (The Valley of Death)

08 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Roger Falco 1° episodio - Il seme dell'odio") (Roger Falco:

        Episode 1 – The Seed of Hatred")

09 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Roger Falco - La maschera del traditore") (Roger Falco: The

        Traitor's Mask)

10 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Gordon Short - Il Passo della Morte") (Gordon Short: The Pass

        of Death)

11 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Un infame progetto", con Buffaletto Bill) (An Infamous Plot,"

        featuring Buffaletto Bill)

12 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Il palo del supplizio", con Buffaletto Bill) (he Torture Stake,"

        featuring Buffaletto Bill)

13 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "La carovana dei pionieri", con Buffaletto Bill) (The Pioneer

        Caravan," featuring Buffaletto Bill)

14 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Jim West - Il Picco della Luna") (Jim West: Moon Peak)

15 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Jim West - Il Picco della Luna") (Jim West: Moon Peak)

16 - "Bill West" (tit. int.: "Jim West - Il Picco della Luna") (Jim West: Moon Peak)