CREATOR

Name: Lev Gleason Publications (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1939 by Leverett 'Lev' Gleason (1898-1971). Stopped in 1956.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Lev Gleason in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation mostly published stories from the crime, romance, and Western genres. It rarely used a logo on the comic book front covers.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1949*. Stopped in 1956 after 52 issues.

The starring character is the masked Black Diamond, a former desperado, now US Marshal, who travels Arizona and Montana on his palomino Reliapon to uphold the law. Occasionally, he is accompanied by the handlebar mustached sidekick Bumber.

* A continuation of Desperado that ran for 8 issues thus the numbering on this page starts at #9.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER


Black Diamond

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#9 - 1949
#28 - 1951
#37 - 1952

#45 - 1953
#53 - 1954
#60 - 1956

 

 

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