WESTERN TALES: DAVY CROCKETT "King Ram!"

Our final Davy Crockett story doesn't feature a "bad guy"...

...but there's still action aplenty and it even has a lesson at the end!

Would this make Davy Crockett one of the first enviromentalists?
This never-reprinted story from Harvey's Western Tales #32 (1955) was penciled and inked by Jack Kirby, a rarity since he usually didn't have time to ink his own work!
The writer is unknown, but could be either Kirby or partner Joe Simon.
We hope you've enjoyed our re-presentation of these long-unseen tales, and promise wel'' be back on a monthly (if not more frequent) schedule starting in September.

Happy Trails to you, until we meet again!

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WESTERN TALES: DAVY CROCKETT "Running Fight"

While comics have shown us numerous meetings of legendary characters...

...it's not often they show us a meeting of real-life legends...even if the enounter is entirely fictional!

Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett did meet in real life, when then-Congressman Crockett helped foil an assassination plot against then-President Jackson!
You can read about it HERE!
This never-reprinted story from Harvey's Western Tales #32 (1955) was penciled and inked by Jack Kirby, a rarity since he usually didn't have time to ink his own work!

The writer is unknown, but could be either Kirby or partner Joe Simon.

Be here tomorrow for the final chapter of Simon & Kirby's version of "the West's Greatest Hero"!

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WESTERN TALES: DAVY CROCKETT "Missing Bullet Hole"

Many are the stories of the "Hero of the Wild Frontier"...

...but we bet you've never seen this one, unless you were alive in 1955!

This never-reprinted tall tale from Harvey's Western Tales #31 (1955) was penciled and inked by Jack Kirby, a rarity since he usually didn't have time to ink his own work!

The writer is unknown, but could be either Kirby or partner Joe Simon.

Here's a preview of what you'll see tomorrow...

Be here tomorrow for more action with "the West's Greatest Hero"!

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WESTERN TALES: DAVY CROCKETT "Devil Rapids"

Let's leap into the adventures of the "Hero of the Wild Frontier"...

...(note: not "King of the Wild Frontier"!
Disney had that trademarked!

The cover-featured story from Harvey Comics' Western Tales #31 (1955)...

...was penciled and inked by Jack Kirby, a rarity since he usually didn't have time to ink his own work!
The writer is unknown, but could be either Kirby or partner Joe Simon.
BTW, you may wonder why Harvey didn't just name a comic "Davy Crockett".
It's because Charlton Comics beat them to it, putting out a Davy Crockett #1 several months earlier!
Who says comics aren't educational?

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WESTERN TALES: DAVY CROCKETT Mini-Marathon!

In the mid-1950s, thanks to Walt Disney, Davy Crockett became a pop-culture phenomenon...

...and, because he was a folk hero in the public domain, almost everybody jumped on the Crockett bandwagon with their own version (as long as it didn't use any of the unique characters or story elements created for the Disney version)!

Harvey Comics turned over one of their Western titles to him, using the Simon & Kirby Studios to produce the stories!

If you're going to portray someone in larger-than-life style, you couldn't do better than Jack Kirby, eh?

Oddly, these two issues have never been reprinted, so we're going to present these tales, unseen for over 60 years, to an audience that probably didn't even know they existed!

(Splash page from Western Tales #31 penciled and inked by Jack Kirby)

You might ask, is Daniel, the kid sidekick, Daniel Boone?

We don't know if Joe Simon and/or Jack Kirby had that in mind.

But, in reality, Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was born well before Davy Crockett (1786-1836)!

Here's a taste of what you'll see the rest of the week...

(From Western Tales #31, penciled by Jack Kirby, writer and inker are unknown)

Be here tomorrow for more action with "the West's Greatest Hero"!

(Disney trademarked "King of the Wild Frontier"!)

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