Weird Western Tales
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Weird Western Tales is a Western
genre comic book
title published by DC Comics
which ran from June-July 1972
to August 1980
. It is perhaps best known for featuring the adventures of Jonah Hex
until #38 (1977) when the character was promoted to his own eponymous series. Scalphunter
then took Hex's place as the featured character in Weird Western Tales.
. It was published on a bi-monthly basis before achieving monthly publication with the November 1978 issue (#49). The final issue was #70 (Aug. 1980).
. The mini-series had no relation to the earlier title, instead featuring a series of one-shot Western-based stories.
to the Blackest Night event.
Western comics
Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier and typically set during the late nineteenth century...
genre comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
title published by DC Comics
DC Comics
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which ran from June-July 1972
1972 in comics
-Events:* Marvel Comics forms their British publishing arm, Marvel UK .* Phil Seuling founds East Coast Seagate Distribution, developing the concept of the direct market distribution system for getting comics directly into comic book specialty shops, bypassing the established newspaper/magazine...
to August 1980
1980 in comics
-Year overall:* Big Rapids Distribution, a major Midwestern comics distributor, goes under, and two former employees , form Capital City Distribution, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin....
. It is perhaps best known for featuring the adventures of Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex
Jonah Woodson Hex is a Western comic book antihero created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga and published by DC Comics. Hex is a surly and cynical bounty hunter whose face is horribly scarred on the right side. Despite his poor reputation and personality, Hex is bound by a personal...
until #38 (1977) when the character was promoted to his own eponymous series. Scalphunter
Scalphunter (DC Comics)
Scalphunter is a fictional character, a Wild West hero in the DC Comics Universe. Scalphunter first appeared in Weird Western Tales #39 and was created by Sergio Aragones and Joe Orlando.-Fictional character biography:...
then took Hex's place as the featured character in Weird Western Tales.
Original series
The original title ran for eight years and 59 issues. It started with issue #12, continuing the numbering from the second volume of All-Star WesternAll-Star Western
All-Star Western was the name of three American comic book series published by DC Comics, each a Western fiction omnibus featuring both continuing characters and anthological stories. The first ran from 1951 to 1961, the second from 1970 to 1972 and the third is part of the DC New 52 released in...
. It was published on a bi-monthly basis before achieving monthly publication with the November 1978 issue (#49). The final issue was #70 (Aug. 1980).
Revival
Weird Western Tales was revived in 2001 as a four-issue limited seriesLimited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
. The mini-series had no relation to the earlier title, instead featuring a series of one-shot Western-based stories.
Blackest Night
A one-shot revival of the series, utilizing the original numbering (#71), was featured in January 2010, as a tie-inTie-in
A tie-in is an authorized product based on a media property a company is releasing, such as a movie or video/DVD, computer game, video game, television program/television series, board game, web site, role-playing game or literary property...
to the Blackest Night event.
See also
- Weird War TalesWeird War TalesWeird War Tales was a war comic book title with supernatural overtones published by DC Comics which ran from September 1971 to June 1983.-Background:...
, a sister title. - High MoonHigh MoonHigh Moon is an award-winning werewolf western webcomic series, developed in 2004 with a debut in 2007 as a part of Zuda, DC Comics' webcomic imprint. The first season concluded on July 8, 2008. Season two ran from August 16 to November 25, 2008...
- Weird WestWeird WestWeird West is used to describe a combination of the Western with another literary genre, usually horror, occult, or fantasy.DC's Weird Western Tales appeared in the early 1970s and the weird Western was further popularized by Joe R...
, the cross-genre Weird Western Tales falls under