Interestingly enough, Cowboy Sahib didn't actually appear anywhere on the inside of Hooded Horseman #52 (1952). Who the hell puts a "coming soon" character on the fromt of your comic when he's not in the issue? Did someone in the ACG production department slip up and accidentally run a house ad in place of a cover? Did something snafu the planned cover at the last minute?!?
Whatever the reason, in #26, we finally got the proper debut of...Cowboy Sahib:
Who is our hero?
But the Sultan is a bad sport...
And so begins a sub-continent-spanning adventure:
Almita comes to Joe to get her revenge...but:
The sultan decides to get his revenge by using Almita as the bait in a lady & the tiger trap. And what follows is brilliant:
The sultan is routed--but alive, and vowing vengeance! And our lovers?
The fun continued next issue...
Oh, and Joe learns to ride an elephant!
That was the last issue of Hooded Horseman. ACG revived the series almost 2 years later, so Cowboy Sahib had 5 more appearances before vanishing into obscurity.
Which is unjust, because man o man, this was a freakin' great comic book.
Someone, please, I'm begging you--revive this title!!
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Snell, I don't think anyone could revive this concept, because there simply isn't another demented genius like Richard E. Hughes, more's the pity.
God, I would so buy this and read it.
Copies of 26 and 27 are available on ComicBook+. Here's #26:
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=18002
Wa-hooo, podnuh!
You can find #25 at the Digital Comic Museum - http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=3172
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