Kid Colt has the distinction of being the longest running Western themed comic book of all time, with a little more than three decades of publication. I only ever had one issue of Kid Colt (issue number 202), which was a reprint of issue no. 129. And it was also previously reprinted in issue no. 162! I’m not certain if most (or all) of the 1970s issues were reprints, but I guess they were selling well enough for the title to have lasted until 1979.
Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga began in the pages of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, so I decided to mashup a Silver Age Jimmy Olsen trope with a Bronze Age one. A mind-controlled Giant Turtle Man would be a pretty useful tool for Darkseid.
I think the first movie I saw that had Zorro as a legacy character was Zorro: The Gay Blade with George Hamilton playing the son (or more accurately, sons) of the original who has to take up the mantle. This cover imagines if that happened to Williams’ Don Diego. Who would he have passed the mantle on to?
The new Masters of the Universe movie opened today in my corner of the globe, so it’s the perfect time for another pun that I couldn’t resist making an illustration of. The E-Man series from First Comics was heavily into parody back then, so this is something that the creators might have done, considering both the comic and the Masters of the Universe cartoon both came out in 1983.
