#LADY RAWHIDE

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Lady Zorro and Lady Rawhide by Mike Mayhew

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Esteban Maroto, 1996

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Lady Rawhide no.2 • cover art • Joe Linsner [Oct 2023]

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Lady Rawhide issue #1 page 19 (1995)

Art by Esteban Maroto

Source

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Clint Eastwood on the set of the western TV series 'Rawhide' (1959 - 1965).

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I love him, your honour

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What media THINKS women want: Big strong man reduced to VERY ill/injured for a woman to tenderly nurse back to health and they fall in love

What women REALLY want: Woman is VERY ill/injured and tenderly nursed back to health (with absolute care and no creepy dubcon nonsense) by a big strong man and they fall in love

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propaganda under the readmore

Gwen Lou Sabuki: Sabuki was a member of the original (junior) Invaders (the Kid Commandos) crew, along with Bucky Barnes and Toro. She has 6 total appearances, the most recent of which was in a flashback, back during the Original Sins event, in which she prevented the U.S. Military and the original Invaders from wiping out Japan with an artificial tsunami.

Blaine "Kid" Colt:

I WILL DEFEND COLT WITH MY LIFE

Ok, I know that nobody reads the Marvel Westerns except me (the vast majority of comments I see on comics sites about them are some variant of “I’m just reading this for completion’s sake”) but Kid Colt is the reason I actually sat up and paid attention to the 1940s-50s Westerns. He’s been through several new origins, and all of them are superficially similar to the first origin we saw laid out in his debut (Kid Colt, Hero of the West #1) but they ALL miss the POINT of the character.

In the first year and a half or so since his debut in 1948, Colt was written by a specific author, Ernie Hart, and he establishes over and over again that Kid Colt is, a violent, traumatized young man who has chosen the life of an outlaw and has no regrets about any of his decisions.

In the first Colt story, we learn that he’s very skilled with a gun, but chooses not to wear guns because he knows his temper means that he would probably draw and kill someone if he had them on him. He endures the ridicule of the other townspeople and even his own father, who doesn’t know his reasons for refusing to wear a gun. But his father is murdered by law enforcement to steal his land and cattle, and Colt is framed for it. He takes matters into his own hands, kills the lawmen (beating one of them to death with his own whip in the process), and leaves town.

For the next eight issues, and the other Western titles he appears in at the time, Kid Colt rides alone for the most part, but consistently goes out of his way to help other outlaws who need it, and affirms over and over again that being a criminal does not make you any less human or deserving of dignity- but he is merciless with lawmen and judges and sheriffs who abuse their power. Sure, he is sometimes lonely, and once or twice considers settling down, but ultimately embraces his new life as an outlaw, and enjoys the freedom it affords him.

The only times in the Hart run, iirc, he considers settling down is with an entire community of people who show him love and concern (particularly, and notably, there's a young man who tends him back to health, though this ends in tragedy). Colt also has no problem getting help from people because he is a charismatic, kind man- he very rarely finds himself in a position where he can’t get help from a local (unlike, say, Rawhide, who is perpetually a target but that’s a post for another day) But regardless, Colt is popular with ladies, but settling down with a woman for love is something that he can never do, and he says as much more than once. There are several ways to interpret this, but this aspect is another one that vanishes when Hart stops writing Kid Colt.

1950, the year Hart stops writing Colt for whatever reason, is around when the Comics Code Authority really started to get some teeth. You can even read letters in the actual comic itself in the lead up to 1950 put in by the publishers talking about the ongoing debate about the moral content of comics, and one of the first things the new writer does (Leon Lazarus) is revamp Colt’s backstory. On the surface, it’s mostly faithful - but it changes the fact that Colt kills both the Sheriff and his deputy to one shooting the other and Colt accidentally knocking the Sheriff off the cliff. The textbox epilogue says he was “accused” of murdering lawmen, implying innocence. But it also completely removes the rage element from his backstory- in this version, Colt doesn’t carry a gun because he doesn’t want his skill to draw in a bunch of gunhawks, claiming he had a brother (who had never been mentioned before, of course) who got shot in the back because of his skill with a gun.

Needless to say, these two changes remove the most compelling things about the character. Crucially, unlike a lot of other Western heroes who find themselves in this predicament, Colt as written by Ernie Hart has no interest in proving his innocence. Colt becomes an outlaw because he sees no other way forward- but he never looks back. He honestly does not believe he did anything wrong and has no interest in justifying himself to the world. But under Lazarus, and pretty much all the later writers, suddenly he hates being an outlaw, and wishes he could prove his innocence, except it’s impossible. He pines after women he meets once. He is suddenly respectful to lawmen and judges and won’t raise a gun against them even to save his life or the life of another. He says shit like “I might be an outlaw but I don’t act like one.” They might as well have just made a completely different person.

Don't get me wrong, there’s some good stories that show flashes of who Colt was in the beginning, but most of the life is leeched out of him, and this is definitely true in all the modern versions of Colt that we have. In The Sensational Seven, Colt is for some reason turned into a boorish douchebag who only thinks about sex. DeFalco’s Kid Colt oneshot, in addition to having a lot of Confederate apologism, goes with the blandest, most toothless version of Kid Colt possible, and that asinine “Moving On” oneshot by Tony Isabella in Marvel 1001 is just. It’s not any sort of a satisfying completion for his character arc, and there's untapped ground withi

Anyway, I know this is more than you ever wanted to know about cowboys, especially Kid Colt, but I lov him so much please....

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Farm Christmas

We had a delightful Christmas morning. With young adults instead of young children, things get rolling much later; nobody hops out of bed at dawn anymore. I made a big breakfast of link sausages and pancakes. Lady, the only dog we've had who knows how to unwrap gift, got the first gift. She happily demolished the paper and started gnawing the rawhide chew. Chance does not understand giftwrap, and was given his plain.

Everyone had chosen gifts well this year, and there was a lot of delight. The paintings and sewing projects were a hit. K got my husband a weighted blanket that, when unwrapped, turned out to be faintly dusted in glitter (?). As nothing else had glitter, it was a little perplexing how that happened, but he enjoyed the blanket nonetheless.

Once the gift-giving had wrapped up, K wanted to go outside and do a little light trail maintenance. Several of her favorite paths have branches down all over them. I'm always in favor of outside time on holidays, so we got heavy clothes and tools while the dogs went bonkers at the door. Hero watched us alertly as we walked up the hill, thinking that perhaps he should be the center of whatever was going on. He was not, this time. The temperature was perfect for working, and we were peacefully working our way around the trails moving dead branches, clipping greenbriar, and chitchatting. That is, until we saw Lady frantically pawing at her mouth again.

Lady?! AGAIN!!?

I had a new and nicer pair of work gloves that gives me more dexterity than the old ones. Given that we had already been through this once last month (Lady getting a piece of wood wedged across the roof of her mouth), I was determined to see if I couldn't help her myself this time. The last vet visit cost almost $200, and I, um, let's try at home this time. To her credit, while she was highly upset, she wasn't as frothing frantic as she had been the first time. She let me look in her mouth (not without a fuss) and I could see the small piece of wood wedged tightly in there. I tried with my fingers, but it was far too wedged (and spitty) for me to get it out. Yes, that was a bit trusting on my part, with those large fangs flashing, but my trust was repaid.

We all walked home, K and I severely disappointed that our activity was cut short (just when we were making so much progress!) and Lady worried, hurt, and drooling. Baxter was utterly unconcerned and bouncing happily along in kitten style.

Back at the house I could not find my set of pliers (argh argh); K has one in her electrical tool set but it has sharp edges. I tried with a pair that turned out to be too large and unwieldy. Of course, every time I pry her jaws apart and reach in there, Lady gets a little more frantic and snappish. Finally my husband turned up a small pair and I made a last attempt. Kneeling with the dog stuffed between my legs, K keeping her from backing up, and my gloved left hand holding her mouth open, I grabbed the piece of wood and yanked.

Oh, the relief for all present!

K went out to ride Hero (he DOES get to be the center of attention, now), Lady is recovering on a cushion, and I may . . collapse.

Merry Christmas, all!

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Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro by Joyce Chin

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Character Actress

Sherry D. Jackson (born February 15, 1942) Retired actress and former child star.

Jackson may be best remembered for her five-season run as older daughter Terry Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first three seasons) from 1953 to 1958. During the course of her five years on the series, she established a strong bond with her on-screen mother, Jean Hagen, but Hagen left the series after the third season in 1956.

Over the next few years, Jackson broadened her range of acting roles by guest starring in dozens of television series, appearing as a hit woman on 77 Sunset Strip, a freed Apache captive who yearns to return to the reservation on The Tall Man, an alcoholic on Mr. Novak, a woman accused of murder on Perry Mason, and an unstable mother-to-be on Wagon Train. Sherry also appeared as a first season guest on The Rifleman episode “The Sister” playing the part of a horse riding sibling of two doting brothers. She played a gunslinger's promiscuous young bride in the Western series Maverick episode entitled "Red Dog" with Roger Moore, Lee Van Cleef and John Carradine. After a 1965 appearance on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., she then made guest appearances on Lost in Space ("The Space Croppers", reuniting with her Danny Thomas co-star, Angela Cartwright), My Three Sons, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Wild Wild West ("The Night of the Vicious Valentine" and "The Night of the Gruesome Games", as two different characters), Batman, and the original Star Trek series. On the latter program, she made one of her more memorable portrayals as the android Andrea in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".

In 1966, Jackson was cast as Katherine "Kate" Turner, a young woman from Boston who takes over a wagon train after the death of the trailmaster, in the episode "Lady of the Plains" of the syndicated series Death Valley Days. DeForest Kelley plays a gambler, Elliott Webster, who falls in love with her though she is engaged to marry once the wagon train reaches Salt Lake City.

In the 1970s through early 1980s she made guest appearances on such TV shows as Love, American Style, The Rockford Files, Starsky & Hutch, The Blue Knight, Switch, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Fantasy Island, Vega$, Alice, Charlie's Angels and CHiPs.  (Wikipedia)

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Special treats for special ladies who NAILED her pet friendly PA trip to learn about escalators and elevators and successfully rode her first ever escalator with prime safety, jumping on and jumping off, holding a stand the whole way, calm and focused!

Went to PetSmart after to get food and she picked out a tasty chew (it’s not rawhide) to celebrate the big success! Where she also got to release all the excitement she had been containing ignoring people during the PA trip and greeted basically everyone and got many free snackums and pets from strangers

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Lady Rawhide no.4 (of 5) • cover art • Joe Linsner [Nov 2013]