Weird Western Tales

Weird Western Tales
	250x450px; Weird Western Tales #14 (October–November 1972), featuring Jonah Hex. Art by Tony DeZuniga.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Bi-monthly/Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	Vol. 1: June/July 1972-August 1980 ; Vol. 2: April 2001 - July 2001
Number of issues	Vol. 1: 59 ; Vol. 2: 4
Main character(s)	Jonah Hex; Scalphunter; Cinnamon
Creative team
Writer(s)	John Albano, Cary Bates, Gerry Conway, Michael Fleisher, Roger McKenzie
Artist(s)	Neal Adams, Dick Ayers, Tony DeZuniga, Luis Dominguez

Weird Western Tales is a Western genre comic book title published by DC Comics which ran from June–July 1972 to August 1980. It is perhaps best known for featuring the adventures of Jonah Hex until #38 (1977) when the character was promoted to his own eponymous series. Scalphunter then took Hex's place as the featured character in Weird Western Tales.

Publication history[edit | edit source]

Original series[edit | edit source]

The original title ran for eight years and 59 issues.^[1] It started with issue #12, continuing the numbering from the second volume of All-Star Western two issues after the first appearance of Jonah Hex.^[2] The title's name was partially inspired by the sales success of Weird War Tales.^[3] When Jonah Hex received his own eponymous series,^[4] he was replaced as the lead feature of Weird Western Tales by Scalphunter as of issue #39 (March–April 1977).^[5] The character Cinnamon was introduced in issue #48 (September–October 1978) by writer Roger McKenzie and artist Dick Ayers.^[6] The final issue was #70 (August 1980).^[1]

Revival[edit | edit source]

Weird Western Tales was revived in 2001 as a four-issue limited series.^[7] The mini-series had no relation to the earlier title, instead featuring a series of one-shot Western-based stories.

Blackest Night[edit | edit source]

A one-shot revival of the series, utilizing the original numbering, #71 (March 2010),^[8] was published as a Tie-in to the Blackest Night event.^[9]

Collected editions[edit | edit source]

Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex
- Volume 1 includes Weird Western Tales #12-14 and 16-33, 528 pages, November 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0760-X

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Weird Western Tales at the Grand Comics Database
↑ McAvennie, Michael; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1970s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. An instant hit with fans, Jonah Hex quickly overshadowed the other stars of All-Star Western. The series was renamed Weird Western Tales two issues later.
↑ Daniels, Les (1995). DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Bulfinch Press. p. 153. ISBN 0821220764. 'Carmine Infantino and I found out that the word weird sold well.' [editor Joe] Orlando recalls. 'So DC created Weird War and Weird Western.'
↑ McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 173: "In true nomad fashion, disfigured gunman Jonah Hex rode his horse out of Weird Western Tales and into his own comic."
↑ McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 173: "With scarred gunslinger Jonah Hex riding off into his own series, writer Michael Fleisher and artist Dick Ayers produced a new outcast to headline Weird Western Tales. Scalphunter was 'a man who lived in two worlds, but was at home in neither.'"
↑ Beatty, Scott (2008), "Cinnamon I", in Dougall, Alastair, The DC Comics Encyclopedia, Dorling Kindersley, p. 83, ISBN 0-7566-4119-5
↑ Weird Western Tales vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database
↑ Weird Western Tales #71 at the Grand Comics Database
↑ Schedeen, Jesse (October 12, 2009). "DC Reveals Plans for Blackest Night in January". IGN. Archived from the original on October 30, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

External links[edit | edit source]

Weird Western Tales at the Comic Book DB
Weird Western Tales vol. 2 at the Comic Book DB
Weird Western Tales and Weird Western Tales vol. 2 at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

[GCD-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Weird Western Tales at the Grand Comics Database

[2] McAvennie, Michael; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1970s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. An instant hit with fans, Jonah Hex quickly overshadowed the other stars of All-Star Western. The series was renamed Weird Western Tales two issues later.

[3] Daniels, Les (1995). DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Bulfinch Press. p. 153. ISBN 0821220764. 'Carmine Infantino and I found out that the word weird sold well.' [editor Joe] Orlando recalls. 'So DC created Weird War and Weird Western.'

[4] McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 173: "In true nomad fashion, disfigured gunman Jonah Hex rode his horse out of Weird Western Tales and into his own comic."

[5] McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 173: "With scarred gunslinger Jonah Hex riding off into his own series, writer Michael Fleisher and artist Dick Ayers produced a new outcast to headline Weird Western Tales. Scalphunter was 'a man who lived in two worlds, but was at home in neither.'"

[dc-cinn1-6] Beatty, Scott (2008), "Cinnamon I", in Dougall, Alastair, The DC Comics Encyclopedia, Dorling Kindersley, p. 83, ISBN 0-7566-4119-5

[7] Weird Western Tales vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database

[8] Weird Western Tales #71 at the Grand Comics Database

[9] Schedeen, Jesse (October 12, 2009). "DC Reveals Plans for Blackest Night in January". IGN. Archived from the original on October 30, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

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