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@spyvinyl @stonezone66 @Big5Army @ljacone @WTFisHalonCon @BiLLYd_licious @DonaldRexJr @IowasJoe @Maxreadscomics @realmarkrez I would like to take a moment and thank everyone for initiating and contributing to #WesternComicsMonth this July.
I've enjoyed it a lot.
See ya'll at the next cattle drive
Ain't No Strings On Me!
Ever noticed that Dell comics evaded the Comics Code Authority?
How did they bypass industry self-censorship?
Through branding - "Dell Comics Are Good Comics"
This ain't your daddy's Dollman
Malibu / Eternity did a few issues of Dollman in the early 90s, based the Tom Thomerson movie.
comic book cover art by "Hector" (creatively signed). I'm pretty sure that is her knuckle.
Battle Beyond The Stars tells a better Star Wars story than the #StarWars sequel trilogy
In my wild erratic fancy
visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving "down the Cooper"
where the western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing,
Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover's life has pleasures
that the townsfolk never know.
Kit Carson
Famous in his own lifetime as mountain man and scout, but I think if he were more famous today he might not be as celebrated. Like others, there is a mythic 'Kit Carson' and a real Kit Carson.
#WesternComicsMonth
Sunset Carson
For a few years at Republic, he was pumping out B movies.
He is one of many Republic stars, including Gabby Hayes, in the Roy Rogers film, Bells or Rosarita (1945)
Adventure presents Wild Cowboys!
Aventura ran from 1954 to 1980, with mostly Western content.
#WesternComicsMonth
During the silent age, he became a solid cowboy draw, along with Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson. The transition to sound was hard on Westerns (which were shot mostly outdoors), and the Depression hit, and his businesses failed.