the alamo

9 min read 2022-05-20 01:00:00

FreightWaves Classics: The Yellowstone achieved ‘firsts’ in peace and war

In the era before railroads opened up the West (defined loosely as the area west of St. Louis), horses, stagecoaches and wagons were the primary

3 min read 2022-04-29 18:00:00

The 100-page Classics Illustrated Special Edition, BLAZING THE TRAILS WEST featured this chapter devoted to Texas independence. The art is credited

6 min read 2022-03-22 21:04:38

For the first time in eight years, the election for land commissioner is wide open, with the outgoing Commissioner George P. Bush running for

5 min read 2022-03-07 23:48:00

The excellent Nick Stern offered to bring and host his 54mm Alamo game over to my place to run for the group. That is an offer one can't refuse!

1 min read 2022-03-06 19:00:00

Today is the day (back in 1836) that Crockett, Bowie, Travis and many other heroes gave their lives for the country-to-be of Texas at the Alamo. I

1 min read 2022-03-03 13:20:00

wWalter Palais is credited with the art for this mini-saga from Stamps Comics #6, August 1952. Movielover is the hero who scanned it for

2 min read 2022-01-28 19:00:00

This feature appeared in three consecutive issues of Rangers Comics, beginning with #46 in April 1949. It offers a brief sketch of Davy's Indian

5 min read 2022-01-27 22:08:00

I really like what my friend and colleague, Dr. Blandina "Bambi" Cardenas said about this piece on Facebook who expresses perfectly what I

1 min read 2022-01-25 19:00:00

Alamo history as seen in Texas Rangers in Action #55, June 1966. Pencils and inks by Rocco Mastroserio. Scanned for ComicBookPlus by jodyanimator.

2 min read 2022-01-18 19:00:00

This little history lesson comes to us from World Famous Heroes #1, dated Oct. 1941. The art is signed "Leed," but who that was seems to be

1 min read 2022-01-13 19:00:00

Two-Fisted Tales, under editor Harvey Kurtzman, was the first War comic that was actually an Anti-War comic. This tale from issue 28, obviously layed

2 min read 2021-12-28 19:00:00

Originally presented in Real Heroes #2, Aug. 1946. The artist is unknown (at least by me). Thanks to comicwanderer for scanning it for ComicBookPlus.

2 min read 2021-11-15 23:00:03

Actor Buck Taylor attends the Premiere of Universal Pictures "Cowboys & Aliens" during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre on

1 min read 2021-03-23 06:58:46

When I was a youngster, my childhood hero was Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, as the song went. Read his bio four times, had a coonskin

3 min read 2021-03-07 00:29:00

The defenders of the old Spanish mission, the Alamo, fought their last stand before falling to the army of Mexican Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna