- All-Star Western
"All-Star Western" was the name of two American
comic book series published byDC Comics , each aWestern fiction omnibus featuring both continuing characters andanthological stories. The first ran from 1951 to 1961, the second from 1970 to 1972.Publication history
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caption = Cover to "All-Star Western" #60 (Aug-Sept 1951). Art byCarmine Infantino andJoe Giella
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date = May 1951 - July 1961
issues = 62
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writers =Gardner Fox Robert Kanigher David Wood
artists =Carmine Infantino Gil Kane Alex Toth Frank Giacoia
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The original "All-Star Western" began with #58 (May 1951), having taken over the number of its predecessor title, "
All Star Comics " — asuperhero omnibus that years before had introduced the enduring team theJustice Society of America . With the postwar decline in the popularity of superheroes, publisherDC Comics changed the series format and title. "All-Star Western" ran 62 bimonthly issues through #119 (July 1961). The cover logo did not include a hyphen until issue #108 (Sept. 1959), when it was much reduced in size and placed above the much larger logo for what was then the title feature, "Johnny Thunder ". Johnny Thunder remained on the cover until the final issue, #119, occasionally sharing it with Madame .44, "the masked outlaw queen."The first issue contained the features "The Trigger Twins", created by writer
Robert Kanigher andpenciler Carmine Infantino and running through #116; "Don Caballero", drawn byGil Kane , and "Roving Ranger", penciled byAlex Toth , the writer-creator uncredited; and "Strong Bow", created by writerDavid Wood and artistFrank Giacoia . Other features that appeared through the years included "Super-Chief ", by writerGardner Fox and artist Infantino; and, beginning with #67 (Nov. 1952), "Johnny Thunder", featuring the masked,vigilante persona of aschoolteacher in anOld West Mormon settlement. The character had been created by writer Kanigher and artist Toth in DC's "All-American Comics " in 1948. Supercbbox
title = All Star Western vol. 2
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caption = Cover to "All-Star Western" vol. 2 #1 (Aug-Sept. 1970). Art byCarmine Infantino andJoe Giella
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date = September 1970 - May 1972
issues = 11
main_char_team =Jonah Hex Bat Lash
El Diablo
OutlawPow-Wow Smith
writers =John Albano
artists =Tony DeZuniga
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The series was revived in the following decade, and ran 11 bimonthly issues (Sept. 1970 - May 1972) before changing its title and, slightly its format to become "
Weird Western Tales ". "All-Star Western" vol. 2, #1 starredPow-Wow Smith , scripted byJohn Broome , with art byCarmine Infantino . The next four starred the characters Outlaw and El Diablo. With issue #5, the character Outlaw was dropped, with the cover logo "Outlaw" now referring to the replacement-feature star,Billy the Kid . The Western "all-stars" now included such historical characters asWild Bill Hickock ,Buffalo Bill andDavy Crockett , in a mix of new stories and reprints, as well as DC stalwarts Pow-Wow Smith, El Diablo andBat Lash .Issue #10 (Sept. 1972) introduced the enduring and popular character
Jonah Hex , created by writerJohn Albano and artistTony DeZuniga . Hex continued as the star of the comic when it changed its name to "Weird Western Tales " with issue #12 (July 1972), and he continued into issue #38 (Feb. 1977) of the 59-issue series.References
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*comicbookdb|type=title|id=7551|title="All-Star Western" (1970)
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