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The name was later given to a reimagined comic book series for DC's Vertigo imprint. The first Losers comic was a war comics feature set during World War II. It was created by Robert Kanigher [1] and became a regular feature in DC's long-running war comic book series Our Fighting Forces beginning with issue #123, dated January/February 1970.
Weird Western Tales is a Western genre comics anthology published by DC Comics from June–July 1972 to August 1980. It is best known for featuring the adventures of Jonah Hex until #38 (Jan.–Feb. 1977) when the character was promoted to his own eponymous series. Scalphunter then took Hex's place as the featured character in Weird Western Tales.
All-Star Western is the name of three American comic book series published by DC Comics, each a Western fiction omnibus featuring both continuing characters and anthological stories. The first ran from 1951 to 1961, the second from 1970 to 1972 and the third was part of The New 52 and ran from September 2011 to August 2014.
At DC, he creates the Fourth World mythology, introducing many new characters to the DC Universe, most notably Darkseid. Mort Weisinger retires from DC Comics after a long tenure as editor of the Superman line during the Silver Age of comic books. He is succeeded by his longtime friend, Julius Schwartz. Marvel Comics adapts Robert E. Howard's ...
In 1970, Marvel published the first comic book issue of Robert E. Howard's pulp character Conan the Barbarian. Conan's success as a comic hero resulted in adaptations of other Howard characters: King Kull, Red Sonja and Solomon Kane. DC Comics responded with comics featuring Warlord, Beowulf and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
First animated adaptation of Gilligan's Island: 24 Shazam! 1974–1976: CBS: DC Comics Live-action: DC Comics Warner Bros. Television: 28 The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty: 1975–1976: NBC: Live-action/animated: 13 The Secrets of Isis: 1975–1977: CBS: DC Comics Live-action: 22 The Ghost Busters: 1975–1976: CBS: Live-action [4] 15 Uncle Croc ...
Image credits: drawerofdrawings Lastly, D.C. Stuelpner shared with us the most rewarding aspects of being a comic artist: “A lot of my work-for-hire art jobs never see the light of day.
Spanish cartoonist Manuel Gago Garcia's The Little Fighter was a popular series of Western comics between 1945 and 1956. Yuki the Bold (debuting in 1958) is another popular Spanish series, as were the shorter-lived series Apache and Red Arrow. Other Spanish Western comics include Sheriff King (beginning in 1964), Sunday (1968), and Kelly Hand ...