Did the comic books medium create anything truly unique in the Western genre?

[ed2962]

welll... there was the Rawhide Kid mini....

If this came out today, someone would be ripping it up on you tube..."Marvel Comics Identity Politics!"

[ed2962]

I have not read Brother Lono.

Brother Lono was pretty decent.

[ed2962]

There would even be Bad Girls.

You know, if someone was willing to admit they were aware of that one.

If you mean that movie with Drew Barrymore, I saw it when it was released on VHS, but I barely remember it.

I actually enjoyed Quick and the Dead with Sharon Stone.

[ed2962]

Over in the Marvel threads someone dug in an old Marvel western heroine from the 50's (?)

I'm not sure of a DC equivalent but I'd be surprised if there wasn't one back in the day.

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This thread had me wondering if Marvel had any female western heroes.
I found one so far by the name of the Arizona Girl aka. Arizona Annie.
She first appeared in Wild West #1 (March 1, 1948).

She sounds like one tough lady too.

[ed2962]

Were there any Westerns with female leads before comics?

Would "Annie Get Your Gun" count?

[Red Robe Jaldari]

Were there any Westerns with female leads before comics?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026073/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Earliest i can think of.

[Kirby101]

Can you give us examples of something unique created in movie or TV Westerns to know what you mean?

[ouroboros]

Were there any Westerns with female leads before comics?

Western films with female leads go back to silent days.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hn...lm/heroine.htm

Arguably there were fewer in sound films. Barbara Stanwyck essayed "Annie Oakley" in the 1930s, and in the early 1940s Linda Stirling played a masked crusader in "Zorro's Black Whip." though she was a female fighter masquerading as a guy.

I did a small summation of the status of western gals in comics here.

[The Darknight Detective]

If this came out today, someone would be ripping it up on you tube..."Marvel Comics Identity Politics!"

He was quite different from the Rawhide Kid I was introduced to back in 1974.

[Güicho]

Of course. A Native American from the pre-Columbus time hunting dinosaurs is unique.

But is it a western?

True pre-Columbus there weren't even Horses in the American west.
No cattle, ranching, vaquero/cowboy hats or guns All staples of the look and theme of the American Western genre. So hard to place Turok in that genre.

That said, it takes nothing away from Turok, which was incredibly unique and interesting all it's own, just not a Western

[Güicho]

Over in the Marvel threads someone dug in an old Marvel western heroine from the 50's (?)

I'm not sure of a DC equivalent but I'd be surprised if there wasn't one back in the day.

Although later creations DC had Cinnamon




and Madame .44

[mojotastic]

If this came out today, someone would be ripping it up on you tube..."Marvel Comics Identity Politics!"

Good thing it was an awful book ;^)

[Vic Vega]

First Kingdom?

Judge Dredd?

Omaha, The Cat Dancer(a erotic soap opera featuring talking animals)?

Harvey Pekar's entire body of work(It was the ongoing autobio of a completely average file clerk in...Cleveland I thing?)?

Not sure what the OP considers "truly unique".

[Carabas]

First Kingdom?

Judge Dredd?

Omaha, The Cat Dancer(a erotic soap opera featuring talking animals)?

Harvey Pekar's entire body of work(It was the ongoing autobio of a completely average file clerk in...Cleveland I thing?)?

Not sure what the OP considers "truly unique".

I don't think any of these are in the western genre.

[Güicho]

Western films with female leads go back to silent days.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hn...lm/heroine.htm

Arguably there were fewer in sound films. Barbara Stanwyck essayed "Annie Oakley" in the 1930s, and in the early 1940s Linda Stirling played a masked crusader in "Zorro's Black Whip." though she was a female fighter masquerading as a guy.

I did a small summation of the status of western gals in comics here.

Nice!

Also the pulps had their own in Señorita Scorpion
(one of the first female lead pulps)