Issue Contents:
Will He Save the West - or Ruin It?
Storyline
A woman who's kissed a Bat Lash Wanted poster finally burns it.
Characters
- Bat Lash
Credits
- Pencils: Nick Cardy
- Inks: Nick Cardy
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino (uncertain)
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Logo design credit from Todd Klein.
"Bat Lash! Draw!"
Storyline
Bat Lash wears a flower in his hat, loves pretty women and fine food, declares, "I hate violence!" but stumbles into trouble time and again. He flees an angry boyfriend, shoots a pheasant on the way to the town of Welcome. He requests the delicious cook prepare pheasant in aspic, and tours the town procuring supplies, punching, shooting, and clobbering villains at every turn. He's cleaned up the town, and sits to eat his pheasant - which the cook poisoned! She's the mastermind, and Bat graciously escorts her to jail. He rides out, having lost his taste for pheasant.
Characters
- Bat Lash (introduction)
- a curvaceous cook
- townsfolk
- cowboys
- gunmen
Credits
- Script: Sergio Aragonés
- Pencils: Sergio Aragonés
- Pencils: Nick Cardy
- Inks: Nick Cardy
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Per interviews with Sergio Aragonés, Joe Orlando, and Carmine Infantino in Comic Book Artist #1 (Spring 1998), numerous hands were involved in the conception of Bat Lash. Carmine Infantino and Joe Orlando came up with the name and general concept and turned it over to Sheldon Mayer. Mayer's first story was rejected, and the concept was passed to Aragonés, who wrote and laid out this first story. Denny O'Neil was brought in as scripter with Bat Lash #1, or possibly the story in this issue. A previous indexer credited Nick Cardy as co-writer. Story across 24 pages, but page 11 is a 2/3-page and pages 17 and 24 are 1/2-pages. Feature continues in Bat Lash #1.
This New Aurora Hobby Kit Is 33 Years Ahead of Its Time!
Story Notes
Ad for the Pan Am Space Clipper from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Superman Is Jimmy Olsen's Hangup!
Storyline
Ad for Jimmy Olsen 80-Page Giant #113, "Shock-filled Anti-Superman Issue!"
Credits
- Pencils: Ross Andru
- Inks: Mike Esposito
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Big Mamie Never Lost a Man
Story Notes
Ad for Revel model of "Big Mamie", the USS Massachusetts battleship.
Intelsat III Satellite
Storyline
The Cheerios Kid goes super-space as he flies past the IntelSat III Satellite.
Be My Guest at America's Greatest Amusement Park
Characters
- Superman
Story Notes
Ad and coupons for Palisades Park, NJ, held aloft by Superman.
Whatever Happened to the Guy Who Us'ta Draw The Flash, or, Carmine WHO???
Storyline
"Carmine Infantino is the Editorial Director of National [DC] Comics."
Credits
- Script: Mark Hanerfeld (uncertain)