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by Paul Green


  Zombie Western: It Came from the West

  (2007) [Puppet animation; Denmark; WW]

  Voice Cast: Niels-Peter Henriksen as Virgil, Tor Fruergaard as Indian, Kim Jeppesen as Eddie, Carsten Reinholdt as Jack; Producer: Soren Fleng; Story: Tor Fruergaard, Sissel Dalsgaard; Director: Tor Fruergaard; 17 min.; Happy Flyfish; Color.

  Native Indians raise the dead and unleash zombies in response to the terrorizing Dark Butcher.

  Zombie Western: The Legend of the Dark Butcher

  (2008) [Puppet animation; Spain-Denmark; WW]

  Story: Juanjo Ramirez, Alby Ojeda; Directors: Tor Fruergaard, Juanjo Ramirez; 75 min.; Perro Verde Films, Happy Flyfish; Color.

  Fourteen-year-old Virgil lives in an Old West saloon with his vicious, Indian-hating father. When his father slaughters an Indian family, he awakens an ancient curse and flesh-eating zombies rise from their graves seeking revenge.

  Based on the 17-minute short Zombie Western: It Came from the West. First part of a proposed trilogy.

  Zorro

  (1957) [TV Series]

  The adventures of Don Diego de la Vega alias Zorro, masked champion of the oppressed. Disney's TV series featured traditional stories apart from “The Ghost of the Mission” which had a Weird Menace theme reminiscent of Western “B” movies from the 1930s.

  1. “The Ghost of the Mission” (1:04) [WMW]

  Air date: October 31, 1957; Main cast: Guy Williams as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro; Guest Cast: Britt Lomond as Capitan Monastario, Romney Brent as Padre Felipe, Jan Arvan as Don Ignacio Torres; Story-Director: Norman Foster; 30 min,; Walt Disney Productions; b/w.

  Zorro spreads the rumor of a mad monk haunting a church where Torres is being held captive, then impersonates the “ghost” of the mad monk to enable Torres to escape from Monastario.

  See: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

  2. Comic book

  First publication: Four-Color #920 (June 1958); Art: Alex Toth; Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.

  Adaptation of the TV episodes “Zorro Rides to the Mission” and “The Ghost of the Mission.”

  3. [Animated TV series; WW]

  Air date: September 20, 1997; Voice Cast: Michael Gough as Don Diego / Zorro, Jeannie Elias as Isabela, Patrick Fraley as Don Alejandro, Tony Pope as Sgt. Garcia, Earl Boen as Capt. Montecero; 30 × 26 min.; Fred Wolf Films; Color.

  The well-known story of Don Diego de la Vega alias Zorro in the West of the 1800s is injected with supernatural and steampunk elements in this animated TV series.

  Season One

  To Catch a Fox (1:01); Sting of the Serpent-God (1:02); Night of the Tolchen (1:03); The Beast Within (1:04); The Enforcer (1:05); Two Zorros Are Better than One (1:06); Tar Pit Terror (1:07); A King's Ransom (1:08); The Pirates of San Pedro (1:09); The Anti Zorro (1:10); Valley of the Manbeast (1:11); The Revenge of the Panther (1:12); The Iron Man (1:13)

  Season Two

  The Samurai and the Sorcerer (2:01); The Poison Pen (2:02); Vision of Darkness (2:03); The Case of the Masked Marauder (2:04); Return of the Conquistadors (2:05); The Hunter (2:06); The Raiding Party (2:07); The Four Horsemen (2:08); The Nightmare Express (2:09); The Ice Monster Cometh (2:10); The Secret of El Zorro (2:11); The Nordic Quest (2:12); Adios, Mi Capitan (2:13)

  4. [Novel; WW]; Author: Isabel Allende; First Puplication: 2005; Publisher: HarperCollins.

  A re-imagining of Zorro that incorporates elements of magic into the story. Born to a Indian Shoshone mother and Spanish military father, Diego is influenced by both worlds and sympathizes with the plight of the Native Americans.

  Zorro Escarlata en la Venganza del Ahorcado

  (1958) [Film; Mexico; WW]

  Premiere: December 11, 1958; Main Cast: Luis Aguilar as Luis, alias El Zorro Escarlata, Fernando Fernández as Captain Orellana, José Eduardo Pérez as Riccardo Carrion, Irma Dorantes as Gloria Carrion, Pascual García Peña as Pascual; Producer: Luis Manrique; Story: Antonio Orellana, Luis Manrique, Fernando Fernández; Director: Rafael Baledón; Filmadora Mexicana; Spanish; b/w.

  A Frankenstein-type monster with a witch for a mother is pursued by El Zorro Escarlata. Divided into three segments: “The Son of the Sorceress,” “The Rope of the Hanged Person” and “The Secret of the Revived One.”

  Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa

  (2007) [TV series; Mexico]

  Premiere: February 12, 2007; Main Cast: Christian Meier as Diego de la Vega / El Zorro, Marlene Favela as Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada, Arturo Peniche as Fernando Sánchez de Moncada, Harry Geithner as Comandante Ricardo Montero de Avila, Andrea López as Mariángel Sánchez de Moncada; Story Executive: Humberto “Kiko” Olivieri; Executive Producers: Patricio Wills, Hugo León Ferrer; 122 × 60 min.; Telemundo–RTI Productions, Sony Pictures Television International, Zorro Productions Inc.; Spanish; Color.

  This telenovela, set in California and Spain of the 1850s, includes popular elements of melodrama, romance and family intrigue but also explores supernatural themes such as mystical Indians, witches, an exorcist and demon possession.

  Zorro's Fighting Legion

  (1939) [Film serial; WMW]

  Premiere: December 16, 1939: Main Cast: Reed Hadley as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro, Sheila Darcy as Volita, Carleton Young as Benito Juarez, Edmund Cobb as Manuel Gonzalez, William Corson as Ramon, Leander De Cordova as Governor Felipe; Screenplay: Ronald Davidson, Franklin Adreon, Morgan Cox, Sol Shor, Barney A. Sarecky; Producer: Hiram S. Brown Jr.; Directors: William Witney, John English; 212 min.; Republic Pictures; b/w.

  Don Diego de la Vega attempts to discover the truth behind self-proclaimed god Don Del Oro, who is worshipped by the Yaqui Indians. Del Oro manipulates the superstitious Mexican villagers and dispatches his enemies with arrows of gold.

  Chapter titles: 1. The Golden God; 2. The Flaming “Z”; 3. Descending Doom; 4. The Bridge of Peril; 5. The Decoy; 6. Zorro to the Rescue; 7. The Fugitive; 8. Flowing Death; 9. The Golden Arrow; 10. Mystery Wagon; 11. Face to Face; 12. Unmasked

  Appendix:

  Weird Westerns by Genre

  Animated Film

  Burst Angel: Infinity

  BraveStarr: The Movie

  The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound

  Queen Emeraldas

  Quick Draw El Kabong

  Zombie Western: It Came from the West

  Zombie Western: The Legend of the Dark Butcher

  Animated Television Series

  The Addams Family

  The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

  Back to the Future

  Batman: The Animated Series

  Batman: The Brave and the Bold

  Beany and Cecil

  Beetlejuice

  Birdman and the Galaxy Trio

  BraveStarr

  Buford and the Galloping Ghost

  Burst Angel

  El Cazador de la Bruja

  Il Corsaro Cocco Bill

  Cosmic Cowboys

  Cosmo Warrior Zero

  Cowboy Bebop

  Coyote Ragtime Show

  Desert Punk

  Duckula

  Felix the Cat

  Futurama

  Galaxy Express 999

  Ginga Tetsudô Three-Nine

  Grenadier

  Gun Frontier

  Gun X Sword

  Justice League

  Justice League Unlimited

  Legion of Super Heroes

  Lilly the Witch

  The Lone Ranger

  The Matty’s Funnies with Beany and Cecil

  Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke

  Outlaw Star

  Posse Impossible

  Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long

  Rocket Robin Hood

  The Ruff & Reddy Show

  Saber Riders and the Star Sheriffs

  Sei Jushi Bismark

  Seihou Bukyou Outlaw Star

  The Simpsons

  Sunabozu

  Tom Terrific

  Trigun

  Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hurlock />
  What’s New Scooby Doo?

  Wild ARMs: Twilight Venom

  Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa

  Yogi’s Space Race

  Zorro

  Animated Theatrical Short

  Boos and Arrows

  Boos and Saddles

  Felix the Cat in Eats Are West

  The First Bad Man

  Phantom of the Horse Opera

  Pink Panic

  Sioux Me

  Tom and Jerry

  Authors

  Bates, Harry

  Brackett, Leigh

  Brautigan, Richard

  Burroughs, Edgar Rice

  Burroughs, William S.

  Dorn, Edward

  Ellis, Edward Sylvester

  Enton, Harry

  Gemmell, David

  Heinlein, Robert A.

  Howard, Robert E.

  King, Stephen

  Lansdale, Joe R.

  McCarthy, Cormac

  Moore, C. L.

  Norton, Andre

  Reed, Ishmael

  Resnick, Mike

  Senarens, Luis

  Williams, Lon

  Book Anthology

  California Sorcery (see “Lone Star Traveler”)

  Custer’s Last Jump and Other Collaborations

  Dead Man’s Hand: Five Tales of the Weird West

  Little Gods

  Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica

  Mad Amos

  Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories

  Razored Saddles

  The Shadows Kith and Kin

  Tales from the Texas West

  Weird Western Adventures of Haakon Jones

  Book Character

  Hosteen Storm

  Tiger Lily

  Book Series

  Fallen Cloud Saga

  Comic Book [titles featuring WW stories]

  Action Comics

  Adventures into the Unknown

  The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem

  All-New Booster Gold

  All-Star Western

  Astonishing

  The Avengers

  Batman

  Best of the West

  Black Panther

  Black Rider

  Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror

  Bobby Benson’s B-Bar-B Riders

  Bonanza

  Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery

  Bulls-Eye

  Buster Crabbe

  Captain Marvel Adventures

  Captain Marvel Jr.

  Creepy

  Crux

  Daredevil the Man Without Fear

  The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born

  Dead in the West

  Desperadoes

  Desperadoes: Banners of Gold

  Desperadoes: Buffalo Dreams

  Desperadoes: Epidemic!

  Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave

  Djustine: Tales from the Twisted West

  Doc Frankenstein

  Don Simpson’s Bizarre Heroes

  Dracula Lives

  The Durango Kid

  Fantastic Four

  Femforce

  Forbidden Worlds

  Green Lantern

  Gunsmoke: Blazing Stories of the West

  Howdy Pardner

  Journey into Mystery

  Justice League of America

  Justice League Unlimited

  Kid Colt, Outlaw

  Legends of the DC Universe

  Lobo Elseworlds

  Lucky Luke

  The Marvel Family

  Master Comics

  Mystery in Space

  The New Adventures of Superboy

  The New Mutants

  Omega Chase

  Out of the Night

  Paragon Western Stars

  Pulp Heroes

  Rawhide Kid

  Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales

  Sensation Comics

  She-Hulk

  Skeleton Hand in Secrets of the Supernatural

  Straight Arrow

  Strange Adventures

  Strange Tales

  Super Spook

  Superboy

  Superman & Batman: Generations III

  Superman Batman

  Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen

  Tales of the Unexpected

  Thor

  Tim Holt

  Tomahawk

  Two-Gun Kid

  Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories

  Western Tales of Black Rider

  Whiz Comics

  Wild Western

  Wonder Woman

  X-Force

  Zorro

  Comic Book [Weird Western titles]

  Aguila Solitaria

  Alter-Nation

  American Wasteland: Blood and Diesel

  Bad Moon Rising

  The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty

  The Ballad of Utopia

  Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities

  Bisley’s Scrapbook

  Blazin’ Barrels

  Blood and Shadows

  Bounty Killer

  Chains of Chaos

  Chickasaw Adventures

  Colt the Armadillo

  Cowboys & Aliens

  Daisy Kutter: The Last Train

  Dances with Demons

  The Dead Rider

  Deadlands One Shot

  Death Comes to Dillinger

  Demon Gun

  Desperadoes

  Desperadoes: Banners of Gold

  Desperadoes: Buffalo Dreams

  Desperadoes: Epidemic!

  Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave

  Djustine: Tales from the Twisted West

  Dusty Star

  Fear Agent

  Fiction Clemens

  Fourth Horseman

  General Jack Cosmo Presents

  Generation Hex

  The Grave Doug Freshley

  Graveslinger

  Grenadier

  Gun Blaze West

  Gunfighters in Hell

  Gunplay

  Guns of the Dragon

  Gunslingers

  Heroes Reborn: Rebel

  Hex

  High Moon

  Holliday

  Hong on the Range

  Interplanetary Lizards of the Western Plains

  Jonah Hex

  Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such

  Jonah Hex: Shadows West

  Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo

  Jonas: Tales of an Iron Star

  Just a Pilgrim

  Just a Pilgrim: Garden of Eden

  Justice Riders

  Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl

  Latigo Kid Western

  The Legend of Joe Moon

  Life with Snarky Parker

  Lone

  Lone Ranger and Tonto

  Macabre Western

  Madame Tarantula

  The Mighty Marvel Western

  The Misadventures of Clark and Jefferson

  Night’s Children: Red Trails West

  Outlaw Files

  Peace Party

  Preacher

  Preacher: Saint of Killers

  Priest

  Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker

  Richfield Presents Rockets and Range Riders

  Robotika

  Roswell, Texas

  Seasons of the Reaper

  Seven Soldiers

  Shaman’s Tears

  Shaolin Cowboy

  Sinbuck

  Six Gun Samurai

  Solar Boy Django

  Space Western Comics

  Steampunk

  Strange Westerns Starring The Black Rider

  Strangeways: Murder Moon

  Sundown Arizona

  Texas Strangers

  13 Chambers

  Tom Arvis’ Wayout West

  Tribal Force

  Trigun

  The Valley of Gwangi

  Vartàn

  Vengeance of the Vapor

  Wasteland

 
Weird Business

  Weird Western Tales

  Western Legends

  Western Tales of Terror

  Wild Times: Deathblow

  Wynonna Earp

  Zagor

  Comic Book Artist

  Ayers, Dick

  Black, Bill

  Keller, Jack

  Matsumoto, Leiji

  Nightow, Yasuhiro

  Powell, Bob

  Severin, John

  Sullivan, Vincent

  Comic Book Character(s)

  Abraham

  Absalom

  Aguila Solitaria

  American Eagle

  The American Gun Club

  Bat Lash

  The Bird Man

  Black Bison

  Black Blaze

  Black Crow

  Black Phantom

  Blackbow the Cheyenne

  Buckaroo Banzai

  Buckaroo Betty

  Il Cavaliere del Texas

  Cimarron

  Cinnamon

  Cocco Bill

  Coeur Blessé

  Coffin

  Cowboy Gorilla

  Cowgirls from Hell

  Danielle Moonstar

  Dawnstar

  Dick Demon

  Doctor Saturn

  Drago

  El Diablo

  Firehair

  Flaming Star

  Ghost Rider

  Gorilla Gunslinger

  The Haunted Horseman

  The Haunter

  Hawkgirl

  Hawkman

  Hurricane

  Jonah Hex

  Judok

  Lash LaRue

  The Lemonade Kid

  Magico Vento

  Manitou

  Mantoka, Maker of Indian Magic

  The Masked Marvel

  Max Mercury

  Mirage

  Night Rider

  Nighthawk

  Owlwoman

  Ozark

  Paragon

  Pariah

  The Phantom Rider

  Pow-Wow Smith

  The Presto Kid

  Psyche

  Quicksilver

  Rakar

  The Rangers

  Ravenstorm

 

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