Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Recycling the Yaffa westerns: Chatto and post-Chatto


The cover to Page Publications' Shotgun Western #1 is by Keith Chatto:


This is a rather dynamic image, with a familiar moustachioed Chatto figure in the dark suit delivering his own brand of gun-slinging action.

This issue was reprinted a few years later as the final issue in the series - Shotgun Western #3:


The cover of this issue is recycled from the opening panel of one of the interior stories in this issue, The Mystery of the Missing Herd!:


This was a regular move by Page Publications in the short post-Chatto period. 

However, Chatto did provide another cover for this issue when it was recycled a short time earlier as Gunman's Western #7:


I'm sure there are more iterations of this issue with Chatto covers to be unearthed and I'll update this post when they come to light.

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