April 1, 2010

Unusual Tales - Horse Hunter's Bait



"Unusual Tales", a series presenting Steve Ditko's comics from 1957 to 1959 that are in the public domain.

"Horse Hunter's Bait" is a 5-page story from Charlton's ROCKY LANE'S BLACK JACK #25 [1958], with another short adventure of the fiercely independent horse. 

A cute little story about Black Jack leading some hunters determined to capture him on a long journey to fulfil a mission of his own.  Some really good western art in this one, I think page 3 has some especially nice panels.

Some links to check out:
Buy Ditko's creator-owned work
Check out AVENGING WORLD, 240 big pages covering over 30 years of Ditko's work
Find out about the fanzine DITKOMANIA
Lots of great, sometimes never published, Ditko artwork every issue
Check out new and upcoming Ditko publications
Lots of reprints from various publishers coming out all the time
Download public domain comics, likely including the one this story is from
scans in this series generally adapted to my personal tastes from those copies

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1 comment:

  1. I love these Black Jack stories. Anthropomorphisms aside, they are heart-warming and carry a good positive moral.

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