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Re: Big Bill Le Casseur 01

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positronic1

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Re: Big Bill Le Casseur 01
« on: March 11, 2019, 08:30:03 AM »

Ah, another Cloned Ranger for the list!

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paw broon

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Re: Big Bill Le Casseur 01
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2019, 06:15:53 PM »

Well, I suppose if you want to claim every other masked cowboy as a LR clone, you might need to check out the rather large selection of Spanish cowboy heroes, although some of them owe more to Zorro then LR.
If it's of interest, there is an admitted link to the Lone Ranger in Big Bill incl. the Native American sidekick, in this case Jaguar, who has a much bigger head dress than Tonto.  But the costume, acrobatics, physical strength, violence - particularly in the earlier issues - sets Big Bill somewhat apart from the Ranger.
I'm not sure how you will react - if you can be bothered to go there - to the masked costumed adventurers in Spanish comics.  Rather a lot of them. Is there a case for saying they were influenced by/based on the Lone Ranger but set way in the past?  Or, perhaps many of these blokes and the cowboys were more influenced by pulp heroes.
Have a look at El Guerrero del Antifaz.  Here's #7:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=46359
El Caballero Negro is an interesting development of all this and the origin is worth a look:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37596
There is a lot more violence in some early European comics before the censors stepped in.  Hangings, stabbings, torture, panels with swords sticking through bodies. 
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