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What’s your favorite Sam Raimi movie?

I'm sort of surprised at how easy this decision is. It's The Quick and the Dead.

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Blazing Sixguns! 1 (405)

Variant cover to Carmen Red Claw: Belly of the Beast #3

Tonci Zonjic

Adapting the 1929 Zane Grey novel of the same title, "Fighting Caravans" made its debut as a comic strip on January 28, 1934. (It had also been a 1931 film starring Gary Cooper.) Here's the first week of dailies:

Ghost Rider 7 (288)

The Walking Hills (1949)

The Tall T (1957)

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Comanche Station (1960)

Happy Randolph Scott Day!

Bonanas for Bonanza Comedy Podcast · Updated Biweekly · In the first podcast ever to be picked up to series from the Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project, Dalton Wilcox, the self-described “Poet Laureate of the West”, will re...

If you want to listen to a very serious, scholarly review of Bonanza, I highly recommend incorporating this podcast into your daily routine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Ride with the Devil wasn't even on my long list. I don't think I knew about that one, but what a cool cast. It's on the list now.

Selleck in an Elmore Leonard Western is so my cup of chili.

These are both on my short list now. [MM]

@hellbentforletterbox.com My suggestions for 2026. Really liked Last Stand, and from what I remember (it was a long time ago) Ride with the Devil is great.

I would actually love to revisit that show. I was a big fan back in the day.

Maybe for our next anniversary episode? [MM]

@hellbentforletterbox.com it would be a big commitment but I think everyone would be interested in your take on Season 1 of Bonanza.

In addition to A FISTUL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY... We have: THE DEVIL'S DOLLAR SIGN, A COFFIN FULL OF DOLLARS, BLOOD FOR A DIRTY DOLLAR, THE MILLION DOLLAR BLOODHUNT and A DOLLAR TO DIE FOR.

So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.

Rawhide Kid 41 (217)

Great episode, great talk! I can see that it's a great movie and the acting is amazing. But I still feel that the natives aren't three dimensional, just kinda there to be stoic and native. I wish they could've been allowed to be full characters. But maybe that was not the story he wanted to tell.

We don't a lot of their perspective, I agree. What we do get is their kindness, even towards people they had every reason to hate, so that was emotional for me. But you're right that it would have been even better if were able to get more of their point of view. [MM]

Interesting. I'm hesitant with Tim Kring, who's inventive yet erratic, but am intrigued the Quaker "violence vs non-violence" angle. Let's see what happens!

Coming In 2026: A New Magnificent Seven MGM+ is preparing a limited-run series reboot of the classic western "The Magnificent Seven."

New Magnificent Seven mini-series coming. No cast announcements yet though.

Jack Kirby’s Two Gun Kid

Nick Derington
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Glad to finally talk about this one with @paxholley.com. Great movie.

High Noon (1952)

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Barabbas (1961)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Happy Katy Jurado Day!

New episode of Hellbent today where Mike and I talk about Hostiles from 2017 starring Christian Bale and Wes Studi.

New Episode! @michaelmay.bsky.social and @paxholley.com finish a double-feature of 2017 Westerns with Scott Cooper's Hostiles, starring Christian Bale, Wes Studi, and Rosamund Pike.

www.hellbentforletterbox.com/2026/01/host...

Guy Williams as Zorro

Romy Schneider and Guy Williams

Happy Guy Williams Day!

Pep #20/1968, 26/1968, 32/1968
Geïllustreerde Pers, 1968, Netherlands

Covers by Morris featuring Lucky Luke.

Annie Oakley 1 (115)

The Lone Ranger #42 (1951). The cover shows the Ranger riding his horse with both of his arms up. He is being escorted by two me riding behind him, one of whom is holding a rifle. We can see Tonto crouched behind some large rocks and holding his gun pointed at the two men.

Cover by Ernest Nordli.

Ann Miller

Ride Lonesome (1959)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

Death Rides a Horse (1967)

Sabata (1969)

Happy Lee Van Cleef Day!

Looking forward to Hostiles, started it several years ago, but never finished it. Amazing acting, but too meandering and I didn't like how the movie treated the native characters. But I didn't finish it so maybe I will find out that it got better.