December 21, 2010

Unusual Tales - The Last Waterhole


"Unusual Tales", a series presenting Steve Ditko's comics from 1957 to 1959 that are in the public domain.

"The Last Waterhole" is a 5-page story that appeared in Charlton's ROCKY LANE'S BLACK JACK #28 [1959], the last of five issues of the title to feature Ditko art, and hasn't been reprinted in the half-century since.

In this tale, Rocky Lane's faithful horse is on one of his trips out in the wild during a drought, and encounters two outlaws. Not much of a story, but I do like the faces of the two human characters, and the staging of the action of page four is really good.


But before the story, some links:
Buy Ditko's creator-owned work
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Check out new and upcoming Ditko publications
DITKO OMNIBUS featuring Shade, Stalker and more in 2011
Download public domain comics, likely including the one this story is from
Scans in this series generally adapted to my personal tastes from those copies

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