DRACULA VS ZORRO "Blade vs Fang"

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On a voyage from Spain to France, Don Diego de la Vega and Count Vlad Dracula court the same lovely female passenger...but with very different intentions!

When Dracula attempts to add the lady to his vampiric harem, Diego dons the garb of Zorro and attempts to stop him...

A battle that only one will walk away from...NOW...at our "brother" RetroBlog...
Seduction of the Innocent!

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DRACULA VS ZORRO "Zorro's Story"

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...decades before the events chronicled in Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, the Prince of Vampires, prepares for a journey from Spain to France!

Meanwhile...

Two dark legends will meet...NOW...at our "brother" RetroBlog...
Seduction of the Innocent!

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Happy 60th Birthday, Zorro!

Sixty years ago today...

...Walt Disney unleashed his version of the already-legendary Zorro on America, creating a phenomenon equal to Davy Crockett-mania several years earlier!

Check out his premiere in both comics and tv HERE!

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BRAVADOS "Ride to Vengeance!" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

...Entering a small town, Gideon sees someone he thinks is Jonas Payne, sadistic commander of the Confederate POW camp where Gideon spent part of the Civil War!

The man claims he's not the Confederate, and the other Bravados pull Gideon off the guy before the enraged cowboy can kill him!

Returning to the bar, Gideon tells the story of how he met Payne and why he carries such a hatred for the man.

(Quick aside: If Gideon is the focus of this story, why is Josh Reno the focus of the cover scene?

Was the creative staff afriaid to show a black cowboy beating up white cowboys?)

And so, the saga of the Bravados ends.

There are rumors of unpublished material for almost all the Skywald color comics, but only a few horror stories for the b/w line have ever surfaced.

Pity...

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BRAVADOS "Ride to Vengeance!" Part 1

After a three-issue run in Wild Western Action...

...the Bravados graduated to their own title!

Exactly what they will do is the subject of tomorrow's post!

Considering the current controversy about Confederate memorial statues, it's ironic we're presenting this never-reprinted tale with a Confederate atrocity theme now, isn't it?

The same creative team (writer Len Wein, penciler Syd Shores, and inker Mike Esposito) who handled all the previous Bravados stories do the work on this, the final Bravados adventure from 1971!

"Wait!", you may scream.

"Didn't you say the Bravados had just received their own title?"

Yep!

"So this first issue is the only issue?"

Yep?

"Why?"

The exact reason is unknown, but all of Skywald's color comics were cancelled in September, 1971.

The company continued another couple of years by concentrating on b/w comic magazines such as Psycho, Nightmare, Hell-Rider, and Crime Machine going head-to-head with Warren and Marvel's b/w lines.

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WILD WESTERN ACTION "Bravados: Guns of the Iron Riders"

Interesting how the Bravados story titles do a "Guns of the..." theme, eh?

The previous story was titled "Five Against the Guns of Diablo"!

Now let's see what lurks behind the never-reprinted cover by Syd Shores and Frank Giacoia!

Though the art on this never-reprinted tale from Skywald's Wild Western Action #3 (1971) is credited to penciler Syd Shores and inker Mike Esposito, there's a lot of John Romita Sr-influenced work here!

Shores died of a heart attack in 1973.

That sort of cardiac problem is cumulative.

He could have had less severe attacks or strokes before that, temporarily-incapacitating him.

Could he have been ill and friends came in to meet the deadline (uncredited) for this issue?

We'll never know...

BTW, this was the final issue of Wild Western Action, but the Bravados still had one more story to tell...as you'll see next week!

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