[TwinPistols]

I recently read through all of the Lone Ranger trades from Dynamite Entertainment (volumes 1-3) and I loved them...if my avatar isn't an obvious enough clue. 

I was wondering if anyone here is currently reading the books and had any comments. I have to say that I'm not a life-long Lone Ranger fan. I knew who the character was before hand and I vaguely remember seeing him on TV as a kid, so I can't really comment on how accurate Dynamite's interpretation is, but it's well written, well drawn and the colors are outstanding. Tonto didn't feel stereotypical, and overall I thought both characters were well done.

I also picked up Dead Irons, a Western/Horror comic, again, from Dynamite, and I'm waiting for "The Man with no Name" to get here by mail (and it can't come soon enough). I just recently got heavily into Westerns as a genre. I read "Riders of the Purple Sage", by Zane Grey and I'm reading through his other book "The Westerners", now. I'm also tearing through the Western comics on the site. (Btw, "Western Adventures #3" was just awesome, cover to cover, unfortunately it's the only one of that series uploaded so far). If anyone is reading another good western title currently being published, please talk about it here.



Thanks!!

-Pistols

[narfstar]

I have enjoyed Black Diamond Western and Lone Rider. Probably the most represented here. I had heard Dynamites Lone Ranger and Zorro were pretty good but have not read them.

[TwinPistols]

I have enjoyed Black Diamond Western and Lone Rider. Probably the most represented here.

Thanks narf, I'll have to check those out. If anyone else is enjoying a Western Comics line on this site (or will be uploading one), be sure to post and let us know.

-Pistols 

[narfstar]

Taking time to look at the site we have some pretty cool stuff. Most Fawcett westerns are pretty good, Hooded Horseman is good and probably the best western character of the GA was Magazine Enterprises GHost Rider who appeared is several ME titles. Also from ME is White Indian with some art by the incomprable Frank Frazetta. ME also had Presto Kid who was pretty cool. So basically check out ME and Fawcett. Then you could go for Western Fighters which was not recurring characters but based on true stories. Ghost Rider may be the best ever comic book western character. Would have to say Lone Ranger is probably my favorite TV western followed by Rawhide.

[Yoc]

My all-time fav is Ghost Rider from M.E. comics.
He had his own book and appeared in many other ME western titles.
If you do a search for Ghost Rider you should be given most of them here.
Dick Ayers did a great job on the character later taking him with him to Marvel.

-Yoc

[OtherEric]

I need to check which issues, we have at least a couple of the Charlton books Joe Maneely did during his brief stint there when Atlas imploded.

[profh0011]

My very first comic was a western... of sorts.  BLACK FURY, which starred a horse!

In the early 70's the Johnny Blaze "Ghost Rider" became a fave, as I liked the combination of super-hero and horror. Recently, though, I've come to wish Marvel had used another name for him (just as I wish they'd come up with a different name other than "Captain Marvel").

Earlier this year I finally read some of the 1967 "Ghost Rider" stories from Marvel. I can't remember ever being so disappointed in anything.  The characters were very annoying, as was most of the dialogue. Roy Thomas (who I'm convinced dialogued at least one story uncredited) & Gary Friedrich should be ashamed. I understand Dick Ayers was disappointed in the so-called "revival".  I can see why!

Thanks to Bill Black and AC Comics, I've been able to read (and re-read) several Rex Fury GHOST RIDER stories, and Gardner Fox's work totally blows away anything Marvel ever did with their version of the character.

Over the last several months I've been building a GHOST RIDER "shrine" at Nick Simon's Silver Age Marvel website.  I started with the 1967 issues, but expanded to their version's appearances in the 70's... and then, I decided to go all-out by adding the Rex Fury version.  (Even though he was never published by Marvel!) 

Fortunately, I've found a great source for scans at the Heritage Auction site.  But they don't have everything, and the Golden Age Comics site here has been a nice alternative source.


I invite everyone here to check out the work in progress... go to...

http://www.samcci.nostromo.no/

Then click on TITLES -- GHOST RIDER -- INDEX -- Magazine Enterprises

This will take you to the Chronological pages for EVERY appearance of Rex Fury!


Henry

[paw broon]

TwinPistols, I was reading the Lone Ranger and have recently handed them on to a friend.  While I quite enjoyed them and thought the D.E. treatment was relatively faithful to the original and they seemed well drawn, I'm just off angst ridden, soul searching characters right now.  I agree about Tonto.  I do prefer Zorro, which seems more action packed and a bit lighter, although the bad guys are genuinely bad.
I see that D.E have stopped the Lone Ranger title and from what I read in the back of some of their comics, there is no sign of it coming back.  The same will happen with The Phantom, I'm sure.
I've been enoying The Sixth Gun from Oni Comics (is that right?).  A good mix of cowboys, zombies and a weird six gun.  Give it a try.
A friend has been selling off his Dell/gold Key comics recently and I've bought a few titles - not in the best nick, you understand but fine for reading.  Included were some beautiful Toth Zorro's, Lone Ranger, a particularly well drawn Toth Gun Glory, Cisco Kid, Wells Fargo, and at the mart on Sat. I found a Bat Masterson and a Lawman.  Know what?  I thoroughly enjoyed them.
I also like Ghost Rider.  If you can read Italian then the best western comic is probably Tex, published by Sergio Bonelli. Been running forever and looks to keep going.  Some of the summer specials have been drawn by big name artists incl. Joe Kubert.
Here's a link:-http://www-en.sergiobonellieditore.it/tex/servizi/nome.html
Good hunting.

[profh0011]

Nick Simon's Silver Age Marvel site went down about 7 months ago.  It was supposed to be a 2-week maintenence thing done by the person hosting the site (in Norway), but it never came back up again, and they have not replied to e-mails by either me or Nick Simon.

   
Nick's fed up with it all, and has no intention to find another host.  So until I find another job (and put it up myself), at least for now, it's gone.  Good thing I saved so many of the HTML files...



   
Meanwhile, I've started a blog for my recent restorations, and decided today to put those GHOST RIDER covers back up, at least until I can display them at a more "proper" website again.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2011/09/ghost-rider.html

   
Art on these is either DICK AYERS or FRANK FRAZETTA !

[CharlieRock]

I was wondering if you guys checked out the All-Star Western #1 DC put out and if it was any good?

[narfstar]

I liked it and look forward to the next issue

[Poztron]

I highly recommend that anyone check out the Dell comic Gene Autry's Champion. Some very tasty Mo Gollub art in many of the issues (though not all). It's a western but an odd one. It sort of takes place in the present (i.e., 1950s), but also kind of in the old west. A curious combination, but the stories are generally terrific.

[josemas]

I highly recommend that anyone check out the Dell comic Gene Autry's Champion. Some very tasty Mo Gollub art in many of the issues (though not all). It's a western but an odd one. It sort of takes place in the present (i.e., 1950s), but also kind of in the old west. A curious combination, but the stories are generally terrific.

I remember some of the westerns on TV when I was a kid were kind of like that too.  The Roy Rogers Show comes most immediately to mind. 

I grew up in Arizona and knew the shows were all a bit of fantasy but when I went back to New Jersey to attend the Kubert School in the late 1970s I would occasionally run into people who hadn't completely separated the fiction from the reality and were always kinda freaked out when I showed them pictures of Phoenix with the high-rises and palm trees and they were always asking where's the cactus and Indians?

Best

Joe

[Menticide]

I highly recommend that anyone check out the Dell comic Gene Autry's Champion. Some very tasty Mo Gollub art in many of the issues (though not all). It's a western but an odd one. It sort of takes place in the present (i.e., 1950s), but also kind of in the old west. A curious combination, but the stories are generally terrific.

Yeah, most of the singing cowboy movies were like that (Gene Autry and Roy Rogers). One of my favorites featured Gene Autry facing off against then modern Al Capone style gangsters from Chicago. I think I remember reading a Bill Wayne Texas Terror story that had him facing off against Nazi spies, it all looked wild west until the airplanes, and trucks entered the story.

[profh0011]

My latest stab at re-coloring, from GHOST RIDER #32. A Don Perlin WESTERN page!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--a-KGwGGfik/TsMFJHtZoPI/AAAAAAAAAWs/EeUJ9col_Dc/s1600/GR3+32_p10a_HA_HK8.jpg

[josemas]

My latest stab at re-coloring, from GHOST RIDER #32. A Don Perlin WESTERN page!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--a-KGwGGfik/TsMFJHtZoPI/AAAAAAAAAWs/EeUJ9col_Dc/s1600/GR3+32_p10a_HA_HK8.jpg

Was this done with a computer program, Henry?

Curious

Joe

[paw broon]

I'm not very good with colours and so probably wouldn't see much difference from the original to the re-coloured.  
Singing cowboys!  That got me thinking that one of my favourite serials is The Phantom Empire with Gene Autry.  I now have the dvd but remember seeing one episode a week at the Odeon Club in the Pavilion Cinema, Airdrie on Sat. mornings, must have been late '50's or 1960.  The cinema is long gone. It, bus station and Broomfield football ground replaced with a supermarket and the new courthouse.  When we left the matinee, we ran home playing at being thunder riders.
All Star Western was very enjoyable and I've read it 3 times. (Last time was really to look for the wifie in red that I'd missed on previous readings.
I'm modifying this to add that ADCCC (the British newspaper strip club) have some Gunlaw (Gunsmoke in N. America) strips by the excellent Harry Bishop, for sale.  I enjoy the Dell Gunsmoke title but the art on this particular newspaper strip is excellent and I intend to include a couple of booklets in my next order.
Here's an old mention:-
http://cbgxtra.com/blogs/beautiful-balloons/harry-bishop-and-gun-law-and-gunsmoke
and a wee bit about Mr. Bishop:-
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bishop_harry.htm

[profh0011]

josemas wrote:
"Was this done with a computer program, Henry?"

Yes. Photoshop. Someone recently clued me in on ONE little command in there I wasn't aware of before which now allows me to overlay inks with the white areas showing thru clear and not getting in the way. (Which I've been using in Corel Draw for many years now.)

I've been doing a whole set of these with different artists just to see what I could do (without looking at the originals for reference).

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/coloring-samples.html

[profh0011]

Having finished the colossal SPACE CONQUERORS! project at my blog, today I was finally able to set up a page devoted to TIM HOLT / RED MASK from Magazine Enterprises in the early 1950's.
     
Most of the covers are by Frank Bolle, with a few by Frank Frazetta thrown in for good measure.
     
Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2012/05/tim-holt.html

[josemas]

"I'd actually just been looking over some of these as I was deciding what ME titles to upload next.  The Bolle covers are all very good but those Frazetta ones just jump out at you, especially that one for issue #17.

[profh0011]

Hope you also saw the GHOST RIDER covers.

If you're going to upload full comics here, feel free to use my cover restorations as part of the package!

[enriqueruizh]

I recently read through all of the Lone Ranger trades from Dynamite Entertainment (volumes 1-3) and I loved them...if my avatar isn't an obvious enough clue. 

I was wondering if anyone here is currently reading the books and had any comments. I have to say that I'm not a life-long Lone Ranger fan. I knew who the character was before hand and I vaguely remember seeing him on TV as a kid, so I can't really comment on how accurate Dynamite's interpretation is, but it's well written, well drawn and the colors are outstanding. Tonto didn't feel stereotypical, and overall I thought both characters were well done.

I also picked up Dead Irons, a Western/Horror comic, again, from Dynamite, and I'm waiting for "The Man with no Name" to get here by mail (and it can't come soon enough). I just recently got heavily into Westerns as a genre. I read "Riders of the Purple Sage", by Zane Grey and I'm reading through his other book "The Westerners", now. I'm also tearing through the Western comics on the site. (Btw, "Western Adventures #3" was just awesome, cover to cover, unfortunately it's the only one of that series uploaded so far). If anyone is reading another good western title currently being published, please talk about it here.



Thanks!!

-Pistols