Monday, April 30, 2007

Jonah Hex And Other Western Tales #2 - Dec. 1979


Another beautiful cover by Luis Dominguez, another collection of hard-bitten, hard-shootin' tales of the old west! Like the previous Jonah Hex digest, this collection devotes space to many of DC's western characters.

Stories include:
• Jonah Hex in "Blood Brothers" by Arnold Drake and Tony DeZuniga
 
• Billy the Kid in "Billy the Kid--Killer!" by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga 
• El Diablo in "Never Kill A Demon!" by Cary Bates and Neal Adams (man, how did El Diablo not become a huge hit with stories that looked this good?) 
• Jonah Hex in "Grasshopper Courage" by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga 
• Scalphunter in "Mark of the Warrior!" by Michael Fleisher, Dick Ayers, and George Evans 
• The next story is a real treat--"Anachronism" by Don Kaar and Alex Toth! You can always depend on Toth for unusual storytelling, and this story is no different--the entire tale is told horizontally, so you have to flip the book sideways to read it 
• Jonah Hex in "Promise to a Princess" by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga

...and finally is a one page feature "The Old West: Fiction vs. Fact" by the always-entertaining Mike W. Barr and drawn by Mike Nasser.


Giddyap, pardner!


 

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