Weird Western Tales
Weird Western Tales (dt. About Peculiar western stories ) is the title of a comic book series , the US-American publisher DC Comics published between June / July 1971 to August 1980. The series contained stories that approached the Wild West theme in an unusual way or that merged it with other genres to create unusual hybrid forms.
Release history
The series reached a total of 59 issues in just under eight years. The first edition of the series was numbered 12 because Weird Western Tales took up and continued the numbering of the Western series All-Star Western , which was discontinued shortly before its start - which had been discontinued with number # 11. The new title with the adjective “weird” was inspired by the success of the sister series Weird War Tales , which contains war comics. Weird Western Tales was published every two months from 1972 to 1978, then, in its last two years from 1978 to 1980, beginning with number 49 of November 1978, monthly.
In 2001, DC picked up the title Weird Western Tales and published a four-part miniseries under it.
Writers who worked on Weird Western Tales include John Albano , Cary Bates , Gerry Conway, and Michael Fleisher . Neal Adams , Dick Ayers , Tony DeZuniga and Luis Dominguez worked as draftsmen for the series .
content
The series that appeared within Weird Western Tales included the stories of the Indian Scalphunter , the gunslinger Cinnamon and the adventures of the bounty hunter Jonah Hex . The latter was the title character and appeared in the last two issues of All-Star Western . When he received his own series after issue # 38, it was replaced by the new Scalphunter series.
Scalphunter (dt. Skalpjäger ) is a series from Weird Western Tales was included # 39 in the series. She tells stories about the Indian warrior Ke-Woh-No-Tay ( He who is less than human ), called Scalphunter, a white man named John Savage, who was kidnapped by the Kiowa Indians as a boy and taken into their community, where he was was brought up to one of their greatest warriors. In traditional Indian clothing, armed with traditional Indian weapons and hiding his white ancestry through complex war paint, Savage - who sees himself as an Indian - experiences traditional western adventures such as buffalo hunts and clashes with white settlers and desperados, whom he puts down. His trademark is the renunciation of firearms.
Eventually, as the Scalphunter stories progress, Savage returns to white society and becomes the sheriff of Frontier City Opal City.
Individual evidence
- ^ Les Daniels: DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes . Bulfinch Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8212-2076-4 , pp. 153 .
- ↑ Entry in the Comic Book DB: Weird Western Tales (title and publication dates)
- ↑ Entry in the Comic Book DB: Weird Western Tales (miniseries)
- ↑ Michael McAvennie, Hannah Dolan (Eds.): DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle . Dorling Kindersley, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9 , pp. 151, 173 .