Albie's Note: This story, originally printed in BUSTER CRABBE Comics #5, Famous Funnies Publications, July 1952, is a pretty well drawn and plotted tale of the old west... attempting to cash in on the then-current TV popularity of the then already-past past repertoire of Mr. Crabbe; a one-time Olympic hero and pretty darn charismatic matinee idol, famous for myriads of movies in the Jungle, Western and Space [sci-fi] categories. Although you rarely hear about ol' Buster today, he was actually a HUGE star from the thirties thru the fifties in entertaining B-movies that spanned varied genres. He played Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon AND Tarzan, by the way, so you can know he positively reeked of masculinity!
And now... here is a fine old red-blooded genre western: SHOWDOWN!
The cover of BUSTER CRABBE # 5, 1952
PEACE
3 comments:
Did not know he was an Olympic swimmer, have watched many of his old movies. This is the first comic book I have seen. When I was a kid seemed like all the comic books I read were Daffy Duck and Porky Pig with a few Superman stories thrown in, I would have liked these.
I enjoyed that exciting little story. Buster Crabbe, the shooting buckaroo of the west. What a title. It's a precursor of Hopalong and others.
NEIL and OSCAR: glad you boys liked 'er :) Peace
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