ISSUE 48
1954 spring
COVER PRICE 10c
I wasn't even born when this comic came out and reading through it now is enjoyable experience. The old style of storytelling, the lovely retro artwork. Usually I 'd post some details about the comic but, as an experiment, I'm reproducing the entire comic here. At the very least it will provide a digital record of something from a bygone age. When this was published children would have been watching the likes of Bonanza, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke and countless other western shows on the TV, westerns were the biggest selling paperback genre and the likes of Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy were almost mythical heroes to children and adults.
It may be fun for blog readers to be able to read the full issue rather than my thoughts on the book. Just click on each image to enlarge.
The first story is Rip Ryan in Trigger 
Bait.Later in the book there is also a text story which occupies the middle pages. These days I don't think any children's comics contains textual stories. A sad reflection on our modern way of life.
There is also a comical character called Buffalo Bull (wonder who he was based on?) who rounds off the issue in absurd style.
I've dozens of these type of old comics in my collection and from time to time I dig one out and wallow in the nostalgia.
5 comments:
"D-don't shoot, Rip! I'm Shuffle...your own deputy!" LOL
Really enjoying looking through these pages.
By the way, I like your new layout.
This looks a lot like a British comic... lots of different stories all in one issue. Then again i understand "Detective Comics" (now the home of Batman) was like that when it first started.
I suppose you already know, but British storypapers also had stories of Buffalo Bill as well. More than likely written by people who had never been to America (though Canada was still in the empire and i suppose people from or who had been there wrote some stories) and the man himself probably never saw them.
To be fair text stories in comics suck donkey balls.
Whilst on the comic theme. Have you actually got and read any of the DWM re-issues? In particular the Tides of Time and 8th Doctor collections?
Thanks for that trip back in time.
1954 - under the damson tree in the garden next door to my grandparents. Me with a stack of Western comics and the girl next door with her School Friend comics.
Lemonade and ginger biscuits.
Yeah - that comic sure brought back some good memories.
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