Which Marvel Western character is closest to Jonah Hex in popularity?

[scribbleMind]

Probably the original Ghost Rider, given that he's the one most likely to make a random appearance, and he's attached to a recognizable IP.

[Rob London]

Jonah even has a modern day legacy character (Jinny Hex from Bendis's Young Justice). None of Marvel's cowboys have that. Two Gun Kid has been used in the present via time travel, so he's the closest thing Marvel has to the Hex family.

Not entirely true - the Phantom Rider has had a couple modern-day incarnations, including Hamilton Slade, a member of the Southwestern hero team the Rangers.

[Triniking1234]

Closest to Jonah Hex? No one considering Hex gets guest appearances in animated works like Brave and the Bold, JLU and JLA and had that live action movie. I think he was in Legends of Tomorrow too? They also recently made a teenage character as a legacy character for him.

[Digifiend]

Jonah Hex was in Legends multiple times, yes.

[Captain Craig]

Marvel doesn't have a true Hex like character. None is the answer.

[Bruce Wayne]

Probably because Marvel never made the effort. Jonah has apperances in media as others pointed out, but he also has 100+ issues of modern stories by Palmiotti and Gray (Jonah Hex +All-Star Western). And that run was always an enormous risk since it didn't really sell well and they had to justify it with potential tpb sales and interest in Westerns in Europe.

[JackDaw]

Probably because Marvel never made the effort. Jonah has apperances in media as others pointed out, but he also has 100+ issues of modern stories by Palmiotti and Gray (Jonah Hex +All-Star Western). And that run was always an enormous risk since it didn't really sell well and they had to justify it with potential tpb sales and interest in Westerns in Europe.

It was a really good series.

[Kaijudo]

Yeah, as others have said, I'd have to go with Two-Gun Kid as far as the closest thing Marvel has to a Western Jonah Hex character, given his continued appearances in modern comics (like leading the Desert Stars during the 50-State Initiative), though it's really apples and oranges given the differences. Hell, Hex arguably even did the time travel element better, jumping beyond present day to be a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-esque figure in the 80s series.

Honestly, if you're going for a character that's particularly analogous to Jonah Hex for Marvel, it's probably going to be the original Nick Fury. He was a common presence in the mainstream Marvel Universe for years but had his origins in two genres apart from superheroes...war comics and spy comics, specifically. And hey, just cosmetically speaking, they both had their faces messed up.

[Digifiend]

Heck, that's a good point, Fury actually had two comics in the silver age, Sgt Fury and the Howling Commandos and Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD, set at different times in his life. How many other characters had two silver age solo books? None at Marvel. Technically, I think it's just Superman (counting the Superboy book) as both Action and Detective were still anthologies back then (the current leads of those books were in them, but it wasn't their own second solos yet).

[K7P5V]

It was a really good series.

Indeed, it was. The work from Moritat is truly praiseworthy (IMHO):

[Riv86672]

I was more of a Rawhide Kid fan back in the day, but yeah, Two Gun is probably it.

^^^Rawhide Kid was pretty cool yeah!
I was a fan of all the Kids at Marvel really.

[Riv86672]

Honestly, if you're going for a character that's particularly analogous to Jonah Hex for Marvel, it's probably going to be the original Nick Fury. He was a common presence in the mainstream Marvel Universe for years but had his origins in two genres apart from superheroes...war comics and spy comics, specifically. And hey, just cosmetically speaking, they both had their faces messed up.

Heck, that's a good point, Fury actually had two comics in the silver age, Sgt Fury and the Howling Commandos and Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD, set at different times in his life. How many other characters had two silver age solo books? None at Marvel. Technically, I think it's just Superman (counting the Superboy book) as both Action and Detective were still anthologies back then (the current leads of those books were in them, but it wasn't their own second solos yet).

^^^Wow, I’d never have those connections.

Very cool. Upvotes!!!

[Gaastra]

Two gun kid
Rawhide kid
Ghost rider / phantom rider
Kid colt
Arizona ann / Arizonia girl
Masked raider / masked rider
Shooting star
Texas twister
Red wolf

Out of this i would say two gun kid also. He has been in avengers and hung around with she-hulk. They were using masked raider alot a few years ago however like in defenders. Poor arizana never gets used. At least she was in the lego marvel 2 game. She even fought aliens and had sci fi tales like hex did!

[Riv86672]

Arizona ann / Arizonia girl

^^^Never heard of her before. Very cool!

[K7P5V]

^^^Never heard of her before. Very cool!

Same here. Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt & the Arizona Girl (2006) was when she first came to my attention...