*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 Jonah Hex’s debut is CGC Blue Label (no restoration) 4.5 VG+.
PICTURED: ALL-STAR WESTERN #10 CGC 4.5 £135 SOLD