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There were 12 issues of COWGIRL ROMANCES published by Fiction House from 1950 thru the winter of 1952-53.
Fiction House's other features in that initial foray included the period adventure "Hawks of the Seas" (continuing a story from Quality Comics' Feature Funnies #12, after Eisner-Iger and Quality had had a falling out), and several now-obscure strips ("Peter Pupp"; "ZX-5 Spies in Action"; "Spencer Steel"; "Inspector Dayton") that nonetheless include future industry legend Jack Kirby's first comic-book work following his debut in Wild Boy Magazine:[1] the science fiction feature The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the modern-West crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), and Part One of the swashbuckling serialization of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Count of Monte Cristo (as "Jack Curtiss"), each four pages long.
[edit] "The big 6 of the comics"
Jumbo proved a hit, and Fiction House would go on to publish Jungle Comics; the aviation-themed Wings Comics; the science fiction title Planet Comics; Rangers Comics; and Fight Comics during the early 1940s — most of these series taking their titles and themes from the Fiction House pulps. Fiction House referred to these titles in its regular house ads as "The Big Six," but the company also published several other titles, among them the Western-themed Indians and Firehair, jungle titles Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and Wambi, and five issues of Eisner's The Spirit.
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Cowgirl Romances #5
Published by Love Romances Publishing Company/Fiction House 1951
Who said that every damsel in distress had to have the hero save her? In the
early 50s Cowgirl Romances showed that even though a gal could find
herself being carried off by some sex crazed outlaw, she was still capable of
getting herself out of a tight jam and even saving the the hero at times.
This fine cover proves just that as the Cowgirl babe not only pulls the bad guys
hair out by the roots, but she spoils his aim as he tries and shoots the hero.
She shows that there is more to a tight skirt and high heeled boots than meets
the eye. Gotta love those spurs.
John Stark, Curt Langdon, Cliff Hanson, and Kim Bartley wrote most of these great adventures of strong women in the west. A surprise for the times was that they did write strong women. Most of these stories had gals like Joan Bently, Jane-The Spitfire Of The West and Lone Star Lou defeating outlaw gangs and evil cattle barons all by themselves with either fancy gun play or most of the time very smart detective work. The art in the books were always top notch and ahead of the time.
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