Tomahawk (Comics Series)
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | tomahawk |
| Original title | tomahawk |
| country | United States |
| author | Joseph Samachson / Ed France Herron |
| Illustrator | Edmund Good / Fred Rax |
| publishing company | DC comics |
| First publication | 1947-1972 |
| expenditure | 140 |
Tomahawk is the title of a comic series that the US publisher DC-Comics published in the 1950s and 1960s , as well as several other comic stories about the eponymous title character.
Content and authors
The comics under the "Tomahawk" title are all western comics set at the time of the American Revolutionary War . The eponymous series "Tomahawk" appeared from 1950 to 1972 and reached 140 issues.
Tomahawk Stories also appeared in issues # 69 to 130 (1947 to 1962) of the Star Spangled Comics series - # 69 from June 1947 includes the first published story in the series - and in issues # 33 to 101 (1948 to 1959 ) from the World's Finest Comics series . The American Joseph Samachson was the creator of the title character and the plot scenario and the first author of the Tomahawk stories . The first draftsman and authoritative creator of the Tomahawk stories was Edmund Good. The main author of the Tomahawk stories of the later years was Ed France Herron, while the main draftsman was Fred Rax.
Title hero
The eponymous hero of the series is a man named Tom Hawk (in some stories: Thomas Hawkins or Thomas Haukins) whose masterful handling of the Indian weapon of the Tomahawk - a traditional Indian battle and throwing ax and the standard weapon of the warriors of the Iroquois Confederation, in their Ranks Hawk fought against the French during the Anglo-French War in the decades leading up to the War of Independence - earning it the nickname Tomahawk. Tom Hawk was recruited by George Washington .
The stories of the Tomahawk comics accordingly deliver unusual western stories in which Hawk, an experienced trapper and tracker - who is also well versed in the languages, customs and traditions of the indigenous people - leads a group of guerrilla fighters known as "Tomahawk's Rangers" against the British . Highlights of the series include Hawk's encounter with the young Davy Crockett and the lovely Miss Liberty, one of the first female patriotic heroines dressed in stars-and-stripes, and the concluding ten-part "Hawk, Son of Tomahawk" in the final editions 131-140.
Most recently, in 1998, a One Shot by Rachel Pollack was published by Vertigo , the DC imprint for comics specially tailored to adult readers, which retold the original story of the title hero in a modern drawing style.
Change of plot content
While most of the stories took place against the background of historical events, some issues dealt with more typical comic themes of that time: the fight against monsters and paranormal beings, time anomalies or the use of special technical innovations. B. from the rather remote fight against giant gorillas , which also happened to other comic series such as Superman , The Flash (both also DC Comics) or Airboy from Eclipse Comics , or the challenge of tree monsters that are more reminiscent of gigantic breakfast cereals. Tomahawk # 83 was found with The Lost Valley a significant bond with the one Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and on the other an almost outdated throwback to the popular dinosaur comics of the 1950s, when the hero first attack of brachiopods have to resist , who in turn is killed by an allosaurus . Tomahawk even had to face a huge green Frankenstein monster in # 103 The Frontier Frankenstein. fight. Over the years there has hardly been a monster game that Tom Hawk did not have to stand up to: a sea monster reminiscent of the Loch Ness monster, a gigantic iron robot chief or an alien chief. In a fight against a gigantic bird of prey even the help of the legendary Rip Van Winkle Washington Irvings was sought, but here he was called Rip van Ranger . Only once did Tom Hawk himself become a monster threat: in The Lost Tribe of Tiny Warriors he was captured as a giant by miniature Indians in 1958, as in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels .
Web links
- Tomahawk on comicbookdb.com
- Cover gallery of "Tomahawk" on comics.org
- Source of inspiration for comic art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tomahawk # 35, 1955. The White Buffalo.
- ^ Tomahawk # 36, 1955. The Return of the Young Davy Crockett.
- ↑ Tomahawk 81, 1962. Miss Liberty. Frontier Heroine.
- ↑ Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk (1998) - # 1
- ↑ Such as the confrontation with cavemen from the Stone Age : Tomahawk # 15: The Wild Men of Wigwam Mountain in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ With an aircraft in the style of Leonardo da Vinci or Otto Lilienthal ; Tomahawk # 4: The Flying Frontiersman.
- ↑ Tomahawk # 86, June 1963 ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Toonerville Vintage Comics ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ yessy.com
- ↑ marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com
- ↑ internetweekly.org ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tomahawk # 67: The Beast from the Deep!
- ↑ Tomahawk # 70: The Secret of the Iron Chief.
- ^ Tomahawk # 79: The Alien Indian Chief.
- ↑ comics.org
- ↑ Tomahawk # 54. The Lost Tribe of Tiny Warriors.
