THE JOHN SEVERIN WESTERNS Featuring American Eagle

From 1951 to 1955, before and during his legendary EC work, John Severin, Mad artist Will Elder and Two-Fisted Tales writer Colin Dawkins introduced a new level of historical accuracy to the comic-book Western. While Native Americans had generally been vilified or left in the shadows of gun-slinging cowboy heroes, the American Eagle stories featured in Prize Comics Western were built around action-packed tribal intrigues and a heroic Crow warrior. And they are GREAT! Well written and superbly drawn!!! Severin of course went on to a long career of work at Warren, Marvel and DC comics, never taking a short cut and always producing outstanding comic book stories. Collected here for the first time are all of the American Eagle stories drawn by Severin from Prize Comics Western #85-113. Plus Severin-drawn stories featuring "The Fargo Kid" (with an assist from Al Williamson!), "Black Bull" and "The Lazo Kid." More than 55 exciting, gorgeous Western tales of bullets vs. arrows, stampedes, tribal warfare, prospectors, buffalo hunters, broken treaties, gun battles, cavalry charges, wagon trains, and warriors on horseback. With commentary by comics historian Howard Leroy Davis. I've collected these stories for decades now. Always a big fan of Severin, I find these among the most appealing of all of his work. Roger Hill (EC Fan Addict, Reed Crandall, Mac Raboy) shares my enthusiasm for this series. I've occasionally scored Roger’s old copies when he upgraded! It's very, very cool to finally get all these collected, not to mention all of Severin’s Charlton series, The Fargo Kid. When Roger and I created a bookplate for Roger's book John Severin: Two Fisted Comic Book Artist, I hand-picked nine of my favorite covers from these same issues to feature on our bookplate. -Bud