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Western Americana and Golden Age Comics Cody of the Pony Express Wrapper Anomaly circa 1951
1951ref. 226541951. Fox Features Cody of the Pony Express circa 1951 documents postwar Western comic culture through a publishing anomaly in which the interior stories of Cody of the Pony Express appear inside wrappers associated with Female Outlaws. The comic supports research into Western Americana Golden Age comics Buffalo Bill popular mythology and mid-century comic book production practices. Its mismatched format gives the issue added significance as material evidence of how smaller comic publishers repackaged or reused content during a competitive period of rapid genre publishing. Fox Features. Cody of the Pony Express No. 1 with Female Outlaws wrappers. New York: Fox Features circa 1951. Illustrated in color throughout. Original stapled pictorial wrappers. 36 pages. 4to approximately 10.25 x 7 inches. The cover lacks issue number publication date and copyright notice and the issue is sometimes identified as Women Outlaws No. 0. The interior begins with a Cody story on page 2 and contains a complete standard comic including "Wagons of Death" "Powdersmoke Payoff" "Sleepy Time Six-Shooters" "Jim Coulter's Race for Life" and the prose feature "Family Feud." The stories present a youthful William "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a Pony Express rider confronting wagon-train violence freight-route sabotage exhaustion on the prairie and frontier danger. The comic reflects the popularity of Western adventure narratives in early 1950s American mass culture while also preserving an unusual example of wrapper and contents mismatch from Golden Age comic production. Wrappers with wear discoloration and chipping to spine; interior with two small ink marks to margins of page 1 otherwise clean and complete with minimal wear; overall good to very good condition. A notable Fox Features Western comic variant combining Buffalo Bill frontier mythology with evidence of improvised mid-century comic publishing practice. unknown
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