*Western: Launched as a reprint title in 1970, DC’s All-Star Western chugged along, adding a couple of original series, including the rather splendid ‘El Diablo’ illustrated by Dick Giordano and Gray Morrow, achieving respect but not a great deal of attention. With its tenth issue, dated Feb-March, 1972, all that changed. Jonah Hex, a horribly-scarred, surly and cynical bounty-hunter with a compulsion to defend the innocent, joined the line-up, and a superstar was born. Created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga, Hex was heavily ‘influenced’ (ahem ahem) by the spaghetti-western fad prevalent at the time, as popularised by such actors as Clint Eastwood, but his own twisted code of honour kept readers fascinated through his own 92-issue series and myriad subsequent relaunches, as well as other-media appearances in film and in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TV show. This copy of All-Star Western #10 is FN-, and on sale at £100. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD