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Who he was missing were the adults, and they were watching westerns. There was no end to playsets, cap pistols, and cowboy outfits, rubber tomohawks, lunchboxes, coloring books and drinking glasses, all featuring our favorites. The problem was the competition was beyond fierce.

And, once every couple of weeks, you got a comic book adaptation of a western movie, not to mention all those reprints. From the start, publisher Warren, and editors Harvey Kurtzman and Forrest Ackerman put their foot right in the pile. Truthfully, almost anyone. The sales on the first issue were already cooked and served by the time the Number Two was going to press. But Warren and Kurtzman must have felt something of the fan backlash, making fun of the most popular genre around.

Clint looks great doing his sit-ups, but the piece tells precious little about the hit show. The articles were flimsy, but had finally started to treat the movies with some respect, especially as they banged the drum for new releases. And so, Ramuda Charlie was born.

Harvey Kurtzman was easing back on his duties as editor, and the tone of the magazine started its shift with this issue. Sherman was a true western lover, and his influence is all over issue 4, the last to feature a cover by the great Jack Davis. Sherman also paid attention to the many western film conventions that existed in those days, noting the appearances of sidekick Max Terhune, and upcoming events.

This issue contains the obituary for star Ward Bond, and an interview with Republic star Bob Livingston. Jesse James is on the left, and Wild Bill Hickock is on the right; stylized in the extreme, they're still killer!

Their final issue, 6, was the best issue yet, and showed that the magazine could cover the genre in serious fashion, looking backwards for nostalgia, and at current releases. Westerns were included in every issue. When it folded, and attention went back to the monster magazines, writing about western movies was soon relegated to the fanzines and special publications produced by experts like Alan G. Barbour, if you could find them.

But for a brief time, if you loved westerns, all you had to do was wander into your local candy store or supermarket, to there would be a new issue of WILDEST WESTERNS, pages filled with heroes, sidekicks, ladies of the west, and some of the baddest bad men ever known, and all for thirty-five cents. Labels: C. James Reasoner September 16, at AM. Cheryl Pierson September 16, at PM. Sarah J. McNeal September 16, at PM.

Jacquie Rogers September 16, at PM. This collection examines and analyzes the evolution and significance of the screen Western from its earliest beginnings to its current global reach and relevance in the 21st century. Westerns: The Essential Collection addresses the rise, fall and durability of the genre, and examines its preoccupation with multicultural matters in its organizational structure.

Containing eighteen essays published between and , this seminal work is divided into six sections covering Silent Westerns, Classic Westerns, Race and Westerns, Gender and Westerns, Revisionist Westerns and Westerns in Global Context. A wide range of international contributors offer original critical perspectives on the intricate relationship between American culture and Western films and television series.

Westerns: The Essential Collection places the genre squarely within the broader aesthetic, socio-historical, cultural and political dimensions of life in the United States as well as internationally, where the Western has been reinvigorated and reinvented many times.

Each essay makes the case for why the selected movie belongs in the top —and included are five movies you've never heard of but should immediately put high on your list. The introduction sets forth the criteria for the selections while also presenting a short history of the genre. In this guidebook John White discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics, representation, ideology, discourse analysis, narrative, realism, auteur and star theory, psychoanalytical theory, postmodernism and audience response.

Some toiled in B westerns, others worked exclusively at the A level, and a few were relegated to television. Gwynne, Hall, Storm and Vale provide forewords to the work. It was to be for the western genre what FM was for horror, covering cowboy movies and the many TV western series. Kurtzman likely only edited the first couple of issues, in a mostly gag oriented style, before moving on to Help!

Once Sherman took over the reins, the mag started taking on a more serious tone, but folded after only six issues. WW 5 was the first issue of a Warren mag to use the name "Captain Company" in the ads pages.

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