Wally Wood Cowboys & Country Girls

Vanguard continues their Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics series with new, previously uncollected Western works by Hall of Fame comic book creator Wallace Wood.

Mad Magazine, Daredevil, Power Girl, Vampirella, Weird Science, The Avengers, The Spirit, Mars Attacks, Superboy, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Galaxy Magazine: These are among the works that made Wallace "Wally" Wood one of the most legendary of all comic book and science-fiction creators. Now, Vanguard continues their Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics series with new, previously uncollected Western works in, Wally Wood Cowboys & County Girls. This is the definitive collection of Wally Wood western comics, which range from six-guns blazing out molten lead to the kitschy to the risqué. Nearly 200 pages spanning the Hall of Fame creator's career, from 1949 to 1972 with titles like Western Outlaws, Jesse James, Western Crime Busters, Frontier Romances, Hoot Gibson, Gunfighters, Red Wolf and Shattuck―most have never been collected. Plus examples of Wood's EC Comics and Marvel Westerns with commentary by J. David Spurlock.

Author: Wallace Wood
Publisher: Vanguard
Published: 05/09/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781934331866
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Editor-author J. David Spurlock is an award-winning author, historian, educator, advocate for artists' rights, documentary filmmaker and associate to star talents Frazetta, Basil Gogos, Neal Adams, Steranko, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Julius Schwartz, Wally Wood and many more. Spurlock's book How to Draw Chiller Monsters, for Random House, rose as high as #18 on the Bookspan best-seller list. Spurlock's IPPY Award-winning book, Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage, has been universally acclaimed including by MTV and by the Village Voice who proclaimed it one of The Best of 2013. Spurlock's works have been lauded by the Rondo Awards, The New York Times, IPPY Awards, Entertainment Weekly, Eisner Awards, National Public Radio, Time Out New York, Library Journal. Publishers Weekly, the Hugo Awards, The Village Voice, Locus Awards, The Society of Illustrators, and MTV.
Film and TV credits include: Frazetta Painting With Fire; STARZ network's Comicbooks Unbound; Free@Last TV's 2005 documentary, The Batman Story, for BBC Five; directing BBC-star Jonathan Ross in his recent interview of Jim Steranko; serving as a consultant to Morgan Spurlock on the documentary, Comic Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope; an on-screen interview for a 2013 documentary on Daredevil; Irwin Hasen The Movie, and the PBS documentary, Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle. Spurlock appeared on the 2017 "Frazetta Family Feud" episode of Strange Inheritance on the FOX Business Network. He lives in Dallas, Texas.