WILD WEST COMICS
ROUNDUP
Founded by
Sol Brodsky and Isreal Wadlman, Skywald Publications may be best remembered for
their low-budget, brilliantly trashy, black and white horror magazines. In
1971, they branched out by issuing a number of four-color comic titles. While
none of the titles lasted more than three issues, there were several intriguing
Western specific titles deserving of longer runs.The Bravados, Blazing Six-Guns, Wild Western Action, The Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy...all the these titles were a mix of new material and reprints, including two issues of The Sundance Kid, which contained Jack Kirby Western tales published in Bullseye.
Attempting to capitalize on the popularity of the movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Professionals, The Magnificent Seven, and the rising regard for the Spaghetti Westerns, the new stories were written by Len Wein or Gary Friedrich, and the artwork was provided by Syd Shores, Tom Sutton, and Dick Ayers—all moonlighting from their regular comic gigs. The equal to almost all the other Western comics being published, the covers and, indeed, the stories in all of Skywald’s Western comics make them eminently collectible.
THE
BRAVADOS
THE SUNDANCE KID
BUTCH
CASSIDY
Skywald
apparently felt Butch Cassidy was
tough enough to handle a series of his own without a need to be given a test
run in either Blazing Six-Guns or Wild Western Action, Skywald’s Western
anthology comics. While Butch and Sundance never headlined together (they were
both given new sidekicks/partners in their separate series), The Sundance Kid did put in an appearance
in the third (and final) issue of Butch
Cassidy.
BLAZING
SIX-GUNS
WILD
WESTERN ACTION
The backup
features to The Bravados in Wild Western Action included tales spotlighting
Rio Vegas, Billy Nevada, and The Durango Kid.
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