All-Star Western #5

All-Star Western #5 (On Sale: February 9, 1971), has a classic Outlaw cover by Neal Adams.

We begin with the final tale of Outlaw, "Hangman Never Loses" by Robert Kanigher and Jim Aparo. When Rick Wilson's father Samuel gets the drop on him and arrests him, Rick tries to get away when Samuel's deputy arrives with Stammerin' Sam, one of the Gunpowder Gang. However, the attempt does not work and the two are locked up in the same jail. This is during Founding Day celebrations, where a golden horseshoe is a prize for a shooting contest.

However, they are freed by Gunpowder and his minion Peg-Leg, escaping the law they hide out at Gunpowders hideout, an abandoned train station. When Gunpowder believes that Rick is going to try and take control of the gang, they have him tied up in a train with a bunch of TNT in hopes of using it as a diversion to steal the horseshoe.

Rick frees himself, thanks to his hawk, and stamps out the TNT when the train crashes, Rick and his father team up to stop the gang and kill them all. Samuel reveals Rick to be a Texas Ranger and that the two made up a story that Rick had gone outlaw so that he could infiltrate the gang. Afterward, Rick wins the shooting contest. Reprinted in Showcase Presents Jonah Hex Vol. 1 TPB (2006).

In "The Devil Rides for Vengeance" by Robert Kanigher, Alan Weiss, and Dick Giordano, El Diablo comes into a town where a massacre has happened. One man, Arnie Olsen, clings to life. Before dying, Arnie tells El Diablo that the Carpetbagger was responsible. The man was trying to force ranchers off their land. When they refused, he got impatient and killed them.

After Arnie dies El Diablo tracks down the killers. He kills the Carpetbagger's three henchmen, but he is wounded then by the boss. When El Diablo then attempts to help Olsen's family, the Carpetbagger returns with more hired killers. El Diablo beats them all before killing the Carpetbagger which ends the threat to the ranchers. 

Alan Weiss began his professional comics career at Warren Publishing by writing and drawing the story "Gunsmoke Charly!" in Creepy #35 (1970). The western artwork caught the eye of editor Dick Giordano and resulted in this, Alan's first work for the color comics. Alan would do one more El Diablo story, a few horror tales and some Marvel romance work and an inking assist on Neal Adams' pencils for the classic Avengers #96, before becoming the penciler for the Pellucidar strip in DC's Korak, Son of Tarzan and Weird Worlds.

For Marvel Alan would draw issues here and there of the Avengers, Captain America, Cat, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Dracula, Inhumans, Iron Man, John Carter, King Kull, Sub-Mariner, Spider-Man, and X-Men, but he would only have one Marvel series: Steelgrip Starkey, of which he drew and/or wrote the first six issues. 

For Atlas, he did an issue of the Brute and for Archie, he did an issue of The Shield.  In the 1990s, for Defiant, he drew and or wrote the first six issues of War Dancer. I also recall seeing some sexual comics by Alan signed as "Vice" instead of Weiss.

At DC he did not only El Diablo and Pellucidar, but also issues of Super-Team Family (Supergirl and The Flash), Richard Dragon, Superman Family (Supergirl), Shazam!, Secret Origins, Captain Atom, and Batman. His most enduring DC title was Tom Strong, for which he did 13 issues.

Edited by Joe Orlando, taking over for the departing Dick Giordano.