Confederate Comics GRAY GHOST "Point of Honor" Part 1

A Civil War Confederate Guerilla with His Own TV Series?

Yep, it happened...

...and here's a story from the two-issue comic book based on it!

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The series portrayed Mosby as a Robin Hood-type rogue who just happened to serve the Confederacy.

He's shown to be a man of honor and moral conviction, and the matter of the actual reasons for the Civil War is never addressed!

This never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics #911 (1958) is illustrated by Ray Bailey and George Woodbridge, who later became a regular contributor to MAD Magazine.

The adaptation's writer, however, is unknown...

The story is adapted from Ep 3 of the 39-episode TV series!

Sadly, little physical evidence exists of the 1957 all-but-forgotten syndicated show besides the two issues of Dell's Four Color Comics!

Trivia: the best-known performer (to the contemporary audience) in this episode was Angie Dickenson as Edie!

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Life of Colonel John Singleton Mosby

MASKED RANGER COMICS "Frontier Killer"

Sometimes the line between "good" guy and "bad" guy is blurred...

...as we see in this never-reprinted one-shot tale from Premier's Masked Ranger Comics #4 (1954)

Future MAD Magazine artist George Woodbridge shows his versatility in penciling this tale of moral ambiguity in the Old West.

It's believed that Sid Check provided the inking, but there's no authoritative source for a writer's credit.

And now for a sad announcement.

Because of lack of readers, we're taking this blog off it's once-a-week frequency.

The blog will still be around, and there will be new posts, usually linked to something Western-themed occuring in movies or TV, or to note the passing of a Western media celebrity.

At that point, I'll gauge if there's enough interest to go back to weekly posting.

So it's "Happy Trails to you...until we meet again..."

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"Billy the Kid"

There are many theories as to how the legendary gunfighter Billy the Kid died...

...but this one is probably the most outlandish!

Billy the Kid has been one of the most popular (and controversial) Real-Life Westerners ever to appear in the media.

Portrayed as everything from a psychopathic killer to a misunderstood teen-ager, he's been the subject of movies, radio and TV shows (both as the title character, and as a guest-star), theatre productions, novels, and no less than a half-dozen comic book titles as well as several hundred comic stories.

(He even fought Dracula in the 1966 b-movie Billy the Kid vs Dracula and traveled thru time in an episode of The Time Tunnel!)

This one-shot tale, illustrated by George Woodbridge appeared in Masked Ranger #6 (1955), and was Woodbridge's first published comics work!

He later became one of the mainstays of MAD Magazine, as well as a military history illustrator noted for his accuracy in rendering uniforms and weapons.

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