Modern Westerns (post 1985) The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey Publisher: Jewish Light Pub. Publication Dates: 2007 Issues Published: 1 All-Star Western (The New 52) Vol. 3 Publisher: DC Publication Dates: November 2011- October 2014 Issues Published: 34 (#1-34) Notable Artists: Darwyn Cook Notable Writers: Jimmy Palmiotti The New 52 All-Star Western was published in September 2011. It started off with a long story arc about Jonah Hex’s journey to Victorian age Gotham City and meeting all of that city’s ancestors to the Batman era heroes and villains. Then he meets the superhero Booster Gold in the old West and gets thrown into the long story arc of being tossed into modern times and meeting Superman and Batman and others, before eventually returning to the late 1800’s and hooking up with Tallulah Black and sailing off into the sunset. Does Hex get to keep the happy ending- who knows? All-Star Western Millennium Publisher: DC Publication Dates: 2000 Issues Published: 1 (#10 in the series) Millennium reprint of the first appearance of Jonah Hex from 1972 American Vampire Publisher: Vertigo Publication Dates: 2010- 2012 Issues Published: Several storylines in this on going series are situated in the old west. Apache Skies Publisher: MAX Publication Dates: September 2002 - December 2002 Issues Published: 4 (#1-4) Armageddon Alien Agenda Publisher: DC Publication Dates: 1992 Issues Published:1 (#3) In the third issue of this four issue mini series, superhero Captain Atom goes slipping through time an winds up in the old west with more than a half dozen of DC's greatest western characters. Bad Moon Rising Publisher: Avatar Press Publication Dates: 2004 Issues Published: 1? Ballad of Sleeping Beauty Publisher: Beckett Publication Dates: 2004-2005 Issues Published: 8 (#1-#8) Retelling of fairy tale set in the wild west The Ballad of Utopia Publisher: Black Daze Publication Dates: 2000-2003 Issues Published: 8 There is also a 2005 collected trade paperback edition as well. Bat Lash Publisher: DC Publication Dates: February 2008- July 2008 Issues Published: 6 The return of the flower in his hat wearing gunslinger, Bat Lash, revealing he is more complicated than first thought. Batman: The Blue, The Grey, and the Bat Publisher: DC Publication Dates: 1992 Issues Published: 1 An Elseworlds graphic novel with Batman as a secret agent of Abraham Lincoln out west. Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne Publisher: DC Publication Dates: 2010 Issues Published: 1 (#4) Alternative history Batman as avenging western hero. Belle Starr Publisher: Moonstone Publication Dates: 2005 Issues Published: 2 Best of the West Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 1998- 2008 Issues Published: 71 (#1-#71) AC comics longest running western title, reprinting all sorts of old 1940's and 1950's western heroes Best of the West Big B Special Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 2006 Issues Published: 1 Best of the West Roundup Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 2005- 2006 Issues Published: 3 Collected trade paperbacks of reprinted westerns Best Shot in the West Publisher: Chronicle Books Publication Dates: 2012 Issues Published: 1 Graphic novel about real-life African-American cowboy Nat Love Big Book of the Weird Wild West Publisher: Paradox Press Publication Dates: 1998 Issues Published: 1 Western collection in a trade paperback book Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Dates: April 2005- January 2013 Issues Published: 4 issues in each series First Series (April 2005- July 2005) Second Series (September 2010- December 2010) ...and the Ghostly Fiend of London Third Series (October 2012- January 2013) ...and the Orm of Loch Ness Three, so far, mini-series make up the Old Timey stories. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Publisher: Marvel Publication Dates: May 2015-October 2015 Issues Published: 5 (#1-5) A Disney Kingdoms story Blackburn Burrow Publisher: Amazon Comics Publication Dates: 2012 Issues Published: 2? Black Jack Ketchum Publisher: Image Publication Dates: Dec. 2015- 2016 Issues Published: 4 Black Phantom Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 1989 Issues Published: 3 Blaze of Glory Publisher: Marvel Publication Dates: February 2000- March 2000 Issues Published: 4 (limited Series) Blazing West Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 1989 & 2000 Issues Published: #1 1989, #2 2000 Roy Rogers Festival photos in the first issue Bloody Chester Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Publication Dates: 2012 Issues Published: 1 Graphic novel Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards Publisher: GT Labs Publication Dates: 2005 Issues Published: 1 Graphic novel about the first two famous fossil hunters and their life long fight with each other. Bounty Publisher: Caliber Publication Dates: 1991 Issues Published: 3 issue mini-series Century West Publisher: Image Publication Dates: 2013 Issues Published: 1 Notable Artists: Howard Chaykin Graphic novel Champions of the Wild Weird West Publisher: Arcana Publication Dates: 2012 Issues Published: 1 Cinnamon Publisher: DC Publication Dates: October 2003- February 2004 Issues Published: 5 (limited series) Cisco Kid Publisher: Doubleday Publication Dates: 1983 Issues Published: 1 Reprints of the 1951 comic strip Cisco Kid: Gunfire and Brimstone Publisher: Moonstone Publication Dates: 2005 Issues Published: 3 Cisco Kid: Hell's Gate Publisher: Moonstone Publication Dates: 2006 Issues Published: 1 Trade paperback Cisco Kid vs Wyatt Earp Publisher: Moonstone Publication Dates: 2008 Issues Published: 1 One tale with two side to it. Colt: The Armadillo that Won the West Publisher: KZ Comics Publication Dates: 1985- 1986 Issues Published: 4 Cow Boy: A Boy and his Horse Publisher: Boom Studios Publication Dates: 2015 Issues Published: 1 Cow Boy Hallows Publisher: Archaia Studios Publication Dates: 2012 Issues Published: 1 Cowboy Ninja Viking Publisher: Image Publication Dates: 2009 Issues Published: 10 Interesting series with two collected trade paperbacks available too Cowboys vs Aliens Publisher: Platinum Studio Publication Dates: 2006 Issues Published: 1 Graphic novel the later film was based on Dale Evans Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 1999 Issues Published: 1 Dark Tower Publisher: Marvel Publication Dates: 2007- 2016 Issues Published: 30 issues in each of the three volume story arcs. Stephen King's Gunslinger in some really strange tales Dead in the West Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Dates: October 1993- March 1994 Issues Published: 2 Dead Irons Publisher: Dynamite Publication Dates: 2009 Issues Published: 4 Dead or Alive : Cyberpunk Western Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Dates: 1998 Issues Published: 1 Dead Rider Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Dates: 2008 Issues Published: 4 Dead West Publisher: Gigantic Publication Dates: 2005 Issues Published: 1 Graphic novel Dean Hsieh's Westside Publisher: Antarctic Press Publication Dates: 2000 Issues Published: 1? Desperados Publisher: Image Publication Dates: 1997-2007 Issues Published: 20 1- Desperadoes (1-5) 2- Quiet as the Grave (1-5) 3-Banners of Gold (1-5) 4- Buffalo Dreams (1-4) Desperadoes Primer (1) Great western story told in four limited series and a one-shot primer. Collected trade paperbacks also issued. Django Unchained Publisher: Vertigo Publication Dates: 2013 Issues Published: 7 Adaptation of the recent film Django and Zorro Publisher: Dynamite Publication Dates: 2014-2015 Issues Published: 7 (#1-#7) Djustine: Tales of the Twisted West Publisher: Carnal Comics Publication Dates: 2004-2007 Issues Published: 4 Adults only weird west comic. Doc Frankenstein Publisher: Burleyman Ent. Publication Dates: 2004- 2007 Issues Published: 6 Donald Duck Adventures: The Sheriff of Bullet Valley Publisher: Gladstone Publication Dates: 1994 Issues Published: 1 (#28) Donald Duck Adventures: The Sheriff of Nugget Gulch Publisher: Gladstone Publication Dates: 1994 Issues Published: 1 Dracula vs Zorro Publisher: Topps Publication Dates: 1993 Issues Published: 3 Durango Kid Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 1990 & 2000 Issues Published: 3 (#1-#3) Paragon Comics became Americomics in 1982 and later changed its name to simply AC, a publisher and reprinter of tons of classic westerns for three decades now. East of West Publisher: Image Publication Dates: 2013- present Issues Published: 30 An apocalyptic dystopian western set in the future. Eclipse Monthly Publisher: Eclipse Publication Dates: 1983-1984 Issues Published: 10 Eclipse Monthly featured Doug Wildey's great creation the gunslinger Rio. 1872 Publisher: Marvel Publication Dates: 2015 Issues Published: 4 A Marvel Secret Wars tie-in story El Diablo First series Publisher: DC Publication Dates: 1989-1990 Issues Published: 16 Second Series Publisher: Vertigo Publication Dates: 2001 Issues Published: 4 plus a collected trade paperback Third Series Publisher: DC Publication Dates: 2008 Issues Published: 6 plus a collected trade paperback DC can't seem to make their mind with this character. He has been a modern good guy street fighter, a revenge seeking western gunslinger, and a LA gang leader who is trying to do good with extraordinary flame powers. It is the last incarnation of El Diablo that DC used in the recent Suicide Squad film. Unfortunately, it looks like they killed him off. Eldritch Kid: Whiskey and Hate Publisher: Gestalt Publishing Publication Dates: 2011 Issues Published: 1 Graphic novel Fabulous Fun Comics Publisher: AC Publication Dates: 1990 Issues Published: 1 Meant to be a Hardee's giveaway starring Roy Rogers, but cancelled by the fast food chain before distribution. Only a few copies floating around. Fistful Of Blood