Popular Post Scrooge Posted April 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2019 As for the other publishers, there are so many deserving attention. Some of my favorites are: Magazine Enterprises with 222 Western comics, esp. their Durango Kid and Straight Arrow series. Prize with 66 Western comics, with their excellent Prize Comics Western. Fiction House with only 51 Western comics, but with some nice series. comicjack, frozentundraguy, szucchini and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Masterful work, even compared to your usual high bar! Thank you. MusterMark and Scrooge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tv horror Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said: Charlton kept the Westerns going for quite a while into the sixties too, Actually Steve it was the Bond craze that killed the Western both in movies TV and I'm sure the comic market. Spies were now the hot topic for the general public and the studio's reflected that trend. A good example of this was the TV series Burke's law starring Gene Barry. As the spy craze hit they changed the entire format from being a police chief to a secret agent called "Amos Burke secret agent!" Get Marwood & I and path4play 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tv horror Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said: Sweet cigarettes Candy sticks you have to be PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tv horror Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 A few examples from the Western craze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 I had not purchased a GA comic for a couple of years now until this past week. 3 out of 4 were Westerns Here's one - tv horror and kaculler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tv horror Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 1 minute ago, Scrooge said: I had not purchased a GA comic for a couple of years now until this past week. 3 out of 4 were Westerns Here's one - That's a beautiful cover do you know the artist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 43 minutes ago, tv horror said: That's a beautiful cover do you know the artist? That's Ernest Nordli. He painted quite a few of the covers in the series. Some are signed. Some only have E.N. on them. That's his style here as well. tv horror 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 I picked up a few Dale Evans issues from DC last week. szucchini, EdMann2 and Scrooge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdMann2 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Great research and information, Scrooge - and great examples from each publisher/category (well, except Charlton, of course....)! ....and kaculler - now I know who beat me out on the Dale Evans lot recently! Scrooge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Wonderful stuff, Scrooge! Scrooge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 11 hours ago, EdMann2 said: ....and kaculler - now I know who beat me out on the Dale Evans lot recently! Sorry (not really ) . They were too tempting. Hopefully you won a few other auctions for things that you wanted. If it makes you feel any better, when I posted the pictures on Facebook a friend taunted me with their copy of Dale Evans #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Was looking at some Frank Tenney Johnson work yesterday and this one jumped out: The Stampede. The pic is hard to see. The scene is a nocturne. Still, my mind went to the Western Picture Stories # 1 cover. Not that one inspired the other but the style is similar. We don't give enough credit at times to those comic book pioneers but they did many times strike gold in their efforts. This is one. MusterMark and adamstrange 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjoeyoung Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Seems to me that the entire concept of "The Western" is slowly dying out. I think it will always be part of America because of its cultural uniqueness, but it has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. I don't think People born in the 1990s have any real cultural contact with Westerns. I went to Disneyland a few years ago before they closed down the Big Thunder Ranch Barbecue, Big Thunder Ranch petting zoo and Big Thunder Ranch Jamboree. I think if Frontierland didn't have Big Thunder Mountain rollercoaster they would probably do away with it. Besides that ride, there is only the shooting gallery, a restaurant that has a couple of small shows and some themed stores that only seem to sell generic merchandise. Maybe somebody thought that since Star Wars is a space western that attaching Star Wars Land to Frontierland made some sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidTheDavid Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 40 minutes ago, mjoeyoung said: Seems to me that the entire concept of "The Western" is slowly dying out. I think it will always be part of America because of its cultural uniqueness, but it has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. I don't think People born in the 1990s have any real cultural contact with Westerns. I went to Disneyland a few years ago before they closed down the Big Thunder Ranch Barbecue, Big Thunder Ranch petting zoo and Big Thunder Ranch Jamboree. I think if Frontierland didn't have Big Thunder Mountain rollercoaster they would probably do away with it. Besides that ride, there is only the shooting gallery, a restaurant that has a couple of small shows and some themed stores that only seem to sell generic merchandise. Maybe somebody thought that since Star Wars is a space western that attaching Star Wars Land to Frontierland made some sense. Yeah, it's an interesting genre. It's an important part of the American myth. We have a lot of cultural lore built around the west. We have important works of art and literature. But if you take cinema as an indicator, there's still interest and cool stuff done now and then, but not enough to merit wagon loads of theatrical releases. I don't think it will die, but I don't think we'll see a resurgence of it either. Speaking of which, anyone see (or read) The Sisters Brothers? There's a good one for you. HouseofComics.Com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 western pulp, of which there are many many many this one is sweet RedFury 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 I was at a flea market on Sunday. A guy had a Hoppy boxed paint set, 3 boxed jigsaw puzzles. A nice board game, An ice cream container and a few small other things all in near mint condition. He wanted $100. For all of them and was practically pleading me to buy them. I’m sure I could have even gotton them for a little less. I sadly passed. There was a time not that long ago when I could have sold them for 3 to 4 times that quickly. The cap guns still sell fairly well but other than that, his market is gone. Sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 On 4/21/2019 at 12:50 PM, tv horror said: Actually Steve it was the Bond craze that killed the Western both in movies TV and I'm sure the comic market. Spies were now the hot topic for the general public and the studio's reflected that trend. A good example of this was the TV series Burke's law starring Gene Barry. As the spy craze hit they changed the entire format from being a police chief to a secret agent called "Amos Burke secret agent!" Another example of this is the Nick Carter character. He appeared as a detective over 4,000 times since 1886, and then suddenly in 1964 he became "Nick Carter - Killmaster" and appeared another 250+ times, but this time as a spy. tv horror 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Here's a chart I should have included earlier - longest running series over the period - These are followed by: 7 series with at least 40 issues: Lash LaRue, Western Fighters, Roy Rogers and Trigger, Tim Holt, Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid, Two Gun Kid, The Cisco Kid. Arguably, the Roy Rogers should be bundled with Roy Rogers above but since my source data is the GCD and the series are split by indicia these ended up separated. If you join the separated series, Roy ends up with 91 + 43 = 134 and Gene ends up with 101 + 20 = 121. Similarly, one should join the series that had legacy runs with other publishers so, for example, Hopalong would have 84 + 50 = 134 and Rocky Lane = 55 + 32 = 87. Here's how the reworked table looks like (see under) and even then I have not yet accounted for any Four Colors for Gene, Roy and the Lone Ranger. 7 series with at least 30 issues: Western Hero, Indian Chief, Tonto, Six-Gun Heroes, Rex Allen, Silver. The 7th one would be Rocky Lane by Charlton but it is bundled in the table above with the Fawcett. 31 series with at least 20 issues 49 series with at least 10 issues 79 series with at least 5 issues 147 series with less than 5 issues in the period cheetah, szucchini, damonwad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 All this number crunching got me curious to see how many I accidentally accumulated over the years ... Not that anyone will care but I see 1,116 in my records. That's 26% of the lot. I'll wear that as a badge of shame Two big intersections in my collecting help push the #'s up: 1. collecting the Four Color run and 2. the period of time I bought anything and everything Atlas but I also have targeted some runs during that time period: Prize Western, Straight Arrow, All-American Western, Western Comics and many other Dell runs. Four Color and Dell runs landed me with ~600 Dell Westerns, 157 Atlas, 103 DCs, 91 Magazine Enterprises, all of the Gilbertons, much of the Prize and Fiction House. Now, I see that I need to focus on the Quality. Nevertheless, there are so many series I have no interest whatsoever in owning more than one representative issue, if that! I don't know how Dr. Love made it to ALL romance?!? MrBedrock, damonwad, kaculler and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
