Sorry - all out of Warm Puppies. (I think Blogger strangled them during the "upgrade" - but i finally was allowed to upload all the images for this post)
Once upon a time, 73 years ago, Cow Puncher Comics appeared on the range...
Cow Puncher Comics featured a wide variety of material, from edutainment features like Trail Tales...
...to cartoon comedy like Dead-Eye Dude...
...and deranged satire like Wild West Ro-di-dos...
And, of course, there was Western Adventure, as seen on the covers. And the "Star" of the book - the only person to have their name on the cover - Twice - was Kit West. We'll come back to her since she deserves a solo post. Today, let's dig out a hidden gem - Alabam.
Alabam only appeared twice, so we'll do both while we're in the neighbourhood. Here's his first tale...
So - did you spot what makes Alabam so special from a modern perspective? If not, this beautiful splash features Joe Kubert's signature quite prominently for you -
As you might have sorted from the cover gallery above, there were only seven issues of Cow Puncher Comics. But we'll be back soon to visit Kit and the others.
Once upon a time, 73 years ago, Cow Puncher Comics appeared on the range...
Cow Puncher Comics featured a wide variety of material, from edutainment features like Trail Tales...
...to cartoon comedy like Dead-Eye Dude...
...and deranged satire like Wild West Ro-di-dos...
And, of course, there was Western Adventure, as seen on the covers. And the "Star" of the book - the only person to have their name on the cover - Twice - was Kit West. We'll come back to her since she deserves a solo post. Today, let's dig out a hidden gem - Alabam.
Alabam only appeared twice, so we'll do both while we're in the neighbourhood. Here's his first tale...
So - did you spot what makes Alabam so special from a modern perspective? If not, this beautiful splash features Joe Kubert's signature quite prominently for you -
As you might have sorted from the cover gallery above, there were only seven issues of Cow Puncher Comics. But we'll be back soon to visit Kit and the others.
page art by Jack Warren, Joe Kubert and ??? from Cow Puncher Comics #s 1-4 (1947, 1948)
Delightful! I've seen that splash page with Kubert's name before but not the rest of the Alabam stuff. His work is so lively in this early period. Those Cow Punch covers, especially number six really showcase why the West was won.
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I do love stumbling across little gems like those while mining the past. And sometimes (not with Kubert) it's a bit of a shock to see how long some of those guys were in the biz.
DeleteThey do seem to have settled on a Theme for the covers as of #2, don't they? You'd never tell from them that the top hero of the book was a woman.
But we'll get to see her wrestle the Devil in due time...