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Friday, July 17, 2020

Confederate Comics / Captain's Library REBEL "Bad Medicine" Conclusion

When Last We Left the ex-Confederate Protagonist of This Series...

...well, that covers it pretty well, so let's join the action...

The TV show occasionally showed flashbacks of Johnny's Civil War days, with the second season opener "Johnny Yuma at Appomattox" placing him at General Robert E Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S Grant!

Johnny considers it an "honorable surrender" and respects the terms of the document, even stopping other ex-Confederates who haven't given up "the Lost Cause" and try to kill then-Presidential candidate Grant!

Johnny Yuma will return in August, but next week...

Disney's forgotten Confederate hero...who (no lie) had his own 1950s TV series!

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Confederate Comics / Captain's Library & Captain's Theatre REBEL "Bad Medicine" Part 1

Old West movies and TV shows up to the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964...

...tended to show Confederates, both during and after the Civil War, as "honorable but misunderstood"!

Written under the title "Johnny Yuma Fights Back" by Gaylord DuBois, the first part of this Mike Sekowsky-Mike Peppe tale, presented here, is an adaptation of the pilot episode, "Johnny Yuma" written by Andrew J Fenady.

The second part of the story, which you'll see Thursday at Western Comics Adventures, is apparently totally-original to comics!

Here's the actual episode for comparison...

The villainous boss is played by a pre-Bonanza Dan (Hoss Cartwright) Blocker!

Other well-known performers include John Carradine, Strother Martin, and Jeanette Nolan.

Though not stated in the comic, Johnny's home town is in Texas, a slave state, and the villains are shown to be Yankee carpetbaggers.

The TV series was co-created by Pennsylvania-born lead actor Nick Adams, whose Johnny Yuma character was promoted in publicity as a "Reconstruction-era beatnik"!
And, Adams never uses a Southern or Texas accent on the show!