JOHN WAYNE "Mystery of Rhyming Range"

The most famous Western movie star of all time...

....in a tale from Toby Publishing's John Wayne Adventure Comics #3 (1950), illustrated by a pair of legendary artists; Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta!

In the 40s and 50s, a number of Western movie, radio, and tv stars (not characters, stars) had comics based on them, including Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, Charles Starrett, Tim Holt, and Lash Larue. Even co-stars and sidekicks like Dale Evans and Gabby Hayes had titles!
Stars like Buster Crabbe and John Wayne also had comics which primarily ran Western tales, but also did stories based on the other genres they appeared in.
In the case of The Duke, his title also had WWII and high adventure stories.
Interestingly, all the stories featured John Wayne as John Wayne, not as a character like Rooster Cogburn or Ethan Edwards!

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BUSTER CRABBE COMICS "Maid of Mars"

The new movie, Cowboys and Aliens, opens today...

 ...but extraterrestrials have been popping up in Western comics since the 1950s!

The amazing art for this tale from 1952's Buster Crabbe Comics #5 was by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel, who were astonishing comics fans with similar quality work at EC Comics on Weird Science and Weird Fantasy!

The cover was by fellow EC artist Frank Frazetta, who was also doing covers featuring Buck Rogers (whom Buster had played in the movies) for Famous Funnies, as well as illustrating the White Indian strip and covers for Ghost Rider! so he had handled both sci-fi and Western genres before doing this mixed-genre piece!

Enjoy Cowboys and Aliens, the newest version of a long-standing Western tradition!

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