Baker's Western Tales COWGIRL ROMANCES "Stars Fell on Arizona" / MOVIE COMICS "Mitzi in Hollywood Meets Sonny Sagebrush"

You Didn't Think We Wouldn't Run a Romance Tale...

...with a Western theme like this one from Fiction House's CowGirl Romances #10 (1952) during our Matt Baker tribute, did you?

OK, pretty straightforward tale of a starry-eyed girl living near a movie location, getting to appear in the movie, meeting her screen idol, and not finding true love, right?

But, that's not how it started out!

This is actually a re-use of lovely Matt Baker art for an earlier ongoing series, Mitzi in Hollywood, about a struggling actress looking for her big break in Hollywood!

This particular episode from Fiction House's Movie Comics #4 (1947) was about working as an extra on a Western movie set...and though the art is the same, the original script was quite different...

Sadly, this was the final issue of Movie Comics, so no more Mitzi adventures ever appeared...except as heavily-modified reprints like our lead story!
Though Matt Baker is best-known as a cheesecake/glamour girl artist, he was, in fact, quite proficient in other genres, such as Westerns, as well as sci-fi, war, adventure, and even horror!

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Baker's Western Tales QUICK-TRIGGER WESTERN "Trail of the Owlhoot!"

Here's Everything You Want in a Western Yarn...

...a stalwart hero, a sneering villain, a confused kid, and a beautiful woman caught in the middle, all illustrated by a guy noted for...wait for it...romance comics and cheesecake/good-girl art!

This never-reprinted rootin'-tootin' action-packed adventure from Atlas' Quick-Trigger Western #18 (1957) was penciled and inked by pioneering Black artist Matt Baker!

Though many associate him only with beautiful women like the voluptuous Phantom Lady

or the protagonists of love stories

...the guy could produce high-adventure, kick-butt material when given the chance!

And we're giving him the chance, this month!

Watch for it!

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Cowboys vs Nazis SPACE WESTERN COMICS "Spurs Jackson and His Space Vigilantes in 'Tomorrow the Universe' "

We Have Already Seen...

Note: Curiously, there's no mention of the Martians, including their (of course) beautiful princess, Spurs and the Space Vigilantes had already encountered in previous stories!

Yeah, it's just business as usual for Spurs and his crew!

Written by Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and illustrated by Stan Campbell, this never-reprinted, beyond bonkers, tale from Charlton's Space Western Comics #45 (1953) was part of a pop culture trend in sci-fi fantasy that included movies like They Saved Hitler's Brain, and even a Twilight Zone episode, "He Lives!"