Blaze of Glory (comics)
| Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes | |
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Cover of Blaze of Glory 1 (February 2000). Art by Leonardo Manco.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Bi-Weekly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | February – March 2000 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Main character(s) |
Two-Gun Kid Rawhide Kid Kid Colt Outlaw Kid Reno Jones Red Wolf Caleb Hammer Gunhawk |
| Creative team | |
| Created by |
John Ostrander Leonardo Manco |
| Written by | John Ostrander |
| Artist(s) | Leonardo Manco |
| Letterer(s) | Bullpen/DS |
| Colorist(s) | Mariana Manco |
| Editor(s) |
Mark Bernardo Tom Brevoort |
| Collected editions | |
| Blaze of Glory | ISBN |
Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes is a four-issue comic book limited series published in 2000 by Marvel Comics. It was written by John Ostrander and drawn by Leonardo Manco.
The series featured a more historically realistic update of Marvel's Western heroes. In contrast to characters' standard looks until then, Blaze of Glory depicted them as grizzled, weather-beaten cowboys and gunfighters, wearing less stylized, more historically appropriate outfits than their classic ones. Blaze of Glory retconned some of the Marvel Western stories of years past as being dime novel fictions of the characters' actual lives.
Series' writer John Ostrander declared:
A lot of the stories that have been printed, like in old issues of Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid, those are great legends, but not necessarily the truth. We're gonna tell you more of the truth. It is going to have a bit of a historical grounding to it. Look for reinterpretations of classic Marvel characters.
Blaze of Glory was originally intended to be released as two forty-eight page issues, as writer John Ostrander revealed in a 1998 interview:
It's called Blaze of Glory, sometimes also referred to as the "Last Ride of the Marvel Western Heroes"! There'll be two 48-page books.
Sometime between the date of this interview and the date of publication, the decision to split the two issues into four regular sized issues was made. Issues #1 and #2 were dated February 2000, while issues #3 and #4 were dated March 2000.
The series was collected in 2002 and later that year, a sequel to the Rawhide Kid's arc was released, Apache Skies, also by Ostrander and Manco.
The peace in Wonderment, Montana (a town founded by a group of ex-slaves freed after the American Civil War, the type of group historically known as Exodusters) is broken when a group of riders dressed like Ku Klux Klan nightriders attack. Among the townsfolk who fight back is Reno Jones, a man whose adventures have been depicted in more than a few dime novels.
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