Old West humor, illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis...
...but NOT from MAD!
It's from Charlton's This Magazine is CRAZY! V4N8, a MAD imitator which lasted only seven issues!
Both as a color comic and a b/w magazine, MAD inspired many imitators.
Some, like Cracked, are going even today (albeit on-line, not in print).Others, like This Magazine is CRAZY, were short-lived, but able, from time to time, to get work from MAD's regular contributors, almost all of whom were freelancers.
This particular piece from 1959 apparently was a satirical response to TV's sanitizing the images of both cowboys and Indians in ongoing series.
Westerns were the most popular scripted genre at the time, dominating almost half of both the prime time and syndicated schedules.
The writer is, regrettably, unknown but it could be Davis himself, who utilized this format in both issues of his own short-lived color comic humor anthology Yak Yak, as seen HERE and HERE!
The writer is, regrettably, unknown.
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also combined both the Loner and Man Framed themes!
) were few and far between on tv until the mid-1960s, and even then only as supporting characters (usually servants).
and East Side, West Side, which dealt with current social themes had Black guest stars including James Earl Jones and Diana Sands, but no Black regulars.
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