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[nick caputo]

My latest blog post follows up with Everett's western stories for Marvel in the 196o's and 1970s. There is plenty of exceptional work to enjoy!

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2013/03/wild-bill-everetts-1960s-and-1970s.html

[paw broon]

Thanks, Nick.  This is good stuff.

[josemas]

Real interesting seeing Everett's western art from this period.  Some I had seen years ago and much I had never seen.  He sure inked a lot of the Marvel regulars didn't he?

Btw, the Texas Ranger Buck Maynard's name probably comes from Ken Maynard and another popular western star of the period, Buck Jones.  Both were popular from the 1920s into the early 1940s.  Sol likely grew up watching them at Saturday matinees as a kid. 

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Joe

[paw broon]

And another Btw but more obscure.  Buck Jones had a series of comics in the Cowboy Picture Library here in the U.K. and those stories were reprinted in France, again in digest size comics, under the title Buck John.  And in the French Buck John comics you also find the adventures of El Bravo, the masked cowboy.
There is an interesting article on Bear Alley here:-
http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/original-cowboy-comics.html
All original art for the Buck Jones stories done in U.K but I don't know by whom apart from Alberto Breccia seeming to have done some later issues. So any help.........
These were really successful comics here.

[nick caputo]

Btw, the Texas Ranger Buck Maynard's name probably comes from Ken Maynard and another popular western star of the period, Buck Jones.  Both were popular from the 1920s into the early 1940s.  Sol likely grew up watching them at Saturday matinees as a kid. 

Thanks for adding the info, Joe. I'd forgotten about Buck Jones, but, as you norted, Sol very likely grew up with all those western period stars.

Nick C.   

[profh0011]

Bill Cosby did a fantastic routine about BUCK JONES.  I heard it many years before I saw one of THE ROUGH RIDERS pictures.  They were a series which featured 3 actors, all of whom had starred in their own films previously.  Sort of a western "JSA".

[nick caputo]

My latest blog post showcases Kirby's feature pages in early issues of Sgt. Fury.

THis is the correct link:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/