Friday, January 1, 2021

Reward: The Greatest Entertainment in Western Comics

Murray Comics' Reward is a digest-sized compilation from the early 1980's:


The features are namechecked on the front cover:

Sharpshooter, originally published in Outlaws of the West #73, January 1969 
Blood Trail, originally published in Outlaws of the West #55, September 1965
Wonderful Portable Gallows, originally published in Outlaws of the West #63, March 1967
The Black Widow Strikes, originally published in Billy the Kid #61, June 1967

All of these stories hail from Charlton, and were previously published by K.G. Murray in titles such as Super Western Album and The Fastest Gun Western (I have yet to confirm a previous publication for Wonderful Portable Gallows but I daresay it's a safe assumption).

The cover is clearly a montage of disparate images however they are not sourced from the contents within this issue.

This issue is another in a small line of issues from this period such as Shootout! I have collectively dubbed the Murray Western Library.

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