But don't blame him for my deranged brain.
Meet Pistol Packin Patty.
Or Pistol Packin Pattie.
Sometimes both in the same story.
As is all too often the case with old comic characters, both the writer and artist who created Patty/Pattie are unknown. She had a very short career in the comics, only 10 2/3 pages and never more than 2 pages at a time.
Patty first appeared in the pages of Nyoka The Jungle Girl #3 in the spring of 1946...
That was her only appearance in Nyoka. Thereafter, her stage was in Hopalong Cassidy, beginning with #3 of that title...
After those 3 tales, she switched to a single page format. According to Jerry Bails, from this point on Frank Bolle was handling the art chores. I'm highly disinclined to argue with him in general nor in this particular...
For those who might be curious, the bottom third of the page was an advert for Doctor Death! appearing in This Magazine Is Haunted, not one for wart cream (which did have comic book ads back in them ancient days). Terribly wasted opportunity.
After that, Patty packed her pistols and rode off the comic page and into the sunset.
Or limbo.
On a totally unrelated side note of things i bumped into out there on the web...
Huzzah! Marvel announced that we'll finally be getting a real version of The Mandarin in the upcoming Shang Chi film. And they signed Tony Leung to play him.
However, they weren't saying in the article i saw which Tony Leung. There are two big Hong Kong stars with that name. And then there's the one HBO signed to make a movie thinking that he was one of the other two.
I doubt Marvel would make that mistake, so it's going to be Leung Chiu-Wai or Leung Ka-Fai - both of whom could do a fine job with the role. I'd rather have seen Yuen Wah, but i'm not going to complain.
Okay... now we're done.
page art by ??? and Frank Bolle for Nyoka The Jungle Girl #3 and Hopalong Cassidy #s 3, 4, 7, 33, 38, 57, & 60 (1946, 1947, 1949, 1951)
