Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Rawhide Kid and Wyatt Earp and a Couple of Writers

Here are two Atlas western hero writer's lists--taking up not too much space since there's only one writer on each before Stan Lee takes over (and in fact his Rawhide Kid is the completely new version started with Jack Kirby a couple of years after this one is cancelled). This isn't too surprising; in 1954-58, Joe Gill has ended up the sole Kid Colt writer pre-Lee.

Wyatt Earp 5 'My name's Annie Mozee'

"The Day Marshal Earp Met Annie Oakley" in WE 5 (July/56) guest-stars the Atlas version of Annie from her own comic book--her 1955-56 feature being written solely by Hank Chapman. To bring her a little more in line with the historical Annie and thus further the conceit that this Wyatt Earp comic is "based upon the facts and legends from the career of the amazing life of Wyatt Earp," this is the only time her real name is mentioned.

scripts by Don Rico
in RAWHIDE KID

Mar/55-Sep/57 1-16  all Rawhide Kid scripts

Rawhide Kid script by Rico
in WYATT EARP

Dec/58  20  The Last Outlaw

scripts by Hank Chapman
in WYATT EARP

Nov/55-Feb/58  1-15  all Wyatt Earp scripts

Wyatt Earp script by Chapman
in WILD WESTERN

Jan/56  47  The Lion of Tombstone

Wyatt Earp scripts by Chapman
in GUNSMOKE WESTERN

Jun/56  35  The Terror of Tombstone
Aug/     36  Apaches on the Warpath
Jan/58  44  Apache Trouble
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6 comments:

  1. darkmarkSeptember 12, 2020 at 12:58 AM

    Thanks!

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  2. Tony IsabellaSeptember 12, 2020 at 10:12 AM

    Have I told you lately how much I love your work?

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  3. Martin OHearnSeptember 12, 2020 at 11:57 AM

    Thanks, darkmark and Tony.

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  4. SangorShopSeptember 13, 2020 at 1:13 PM

    Well Oakley was still a Mozee, and Earp still in Wichita in 1876, so I guess it's possible. Although in the comic, Earp mentions that Oakley was in the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show - her time there started in 1885, well after Earp had left full time law enforcement. So this incident probably never happened. If only Chapman had had Wikipedia.

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    1. darkmarkSeptember 13, 2020 at 11:05 PM

      Have you ever heard about that Two-Gun Kid story set at the Alamo, circa 1836, with the Kid being a post-Civil War character?

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    2. Martin OHearnSeptember 14, 2020 at 1:40 PM

      At least there were letters pages in the Westerns by the time of the Alamo story, and a reader called them out on it.

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