Weird West BLACK DIAMOND WESTERN "Bingbang Buster and His Horse Hedy in "Swish!"

The Weird West Encompasses Many Strange Occurrences...

...not all of them supernatural (or even terrestrial) in origin!

This superb example of cross-genre lunacy from Lev Gleason's Black Diamond Western #21 (1950) is the work of legendary writer/artist Basil Wolverton, who never saw a concept he couldn't spoof.
Though better known for his serious sci-fi/horror work, Wolverton loved doing humor, with a lot of fun details and signage filling the panel with what fellow artist Jack Cole called "eyeball kicks", primarily in his long-running Powerhouse Pepper strip!
Interestingly, MAD comics, which really popularized this sort of wild storytelling, didn't debut until 1952, which indicates they imitated Basil, not the other way around!
He later did work for them both in their comic book and magazine incarnations!

The Bingbang Buster strip ran in from #16 to #28, and is Wolverton's only Western comics work!

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COWBOYS AND ALIENS Conclusion

Just when it looks like our protagonists are doomed...

...the cavalry comes over the hill!

(Well this is a Western!)

If ever there was a story crying out for a sequel, this is it!

And guess what?

There is an official sequel from Platinum...which never saw print...but was published...

ON THE 'NET!

Click HERE to Read it!

Note: though produced in 2007, it is, sadly, unfinished!

COWBOYS AND ALIENS Part 5

We Have Already Seen...

Cover of the 2011 movie tie-in reprint of the 2006 graphic novel, featuring Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan (the character is Zeke Jackson in the comic)!

...after an escaped alien slave informs the now-allied cowboys and Indians that the shipwrecked ETs are setting up a beacon to summon reinforcements, the humans counterattack.

But a human traitor has "spilled the beans"...

The "cavalry" has arrived!

Dare You Not Be Here Saturday to See What Happens in the Cataclysmic Conclusion?

COWBOYS AND ALIENS Part 3

When Last We Left our Protagonists...

...in 1873 Arizona, a battle between a wagon train heading for Silver City and Indians is interrupted by a crippled flying saucer crashing nearby!

The surviving aliens decide to conquer the "primitive" humans while they await rescue by their fellow space travelers.

After quickly destroying a nearby US Army outpost, they head for the nearest group of structures, Silver City...where the wagon train has just arrived!

Tomorrow, learn who and what the aliens are, at...

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