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Cover: Gil Kane
All Star Western #108
“The Origin of Johnny Thunder”
writer Robert Kanigher · artist Gil Kane · inker Joe Giella · letterer Gaspar Saladino · cover Gil Kane
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writer Robert Kanigher
artist Gil Kane
inker Joe Giella
letterer Gaspar Saladino
cover pencils, inks Gil Kane
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Origin story. Young John Tane's father is sheriff and expects his son to follow him. His mother says "Books are better than bullets", and John promises to be a schoolteacher. Yet his father is aging and needs him. So John becomes two people and adopt the identity of "Johnny" + "Thunder" during a storm. He changes clothes, blacks his hair, changes his speech, and becomes an unofficial sheriff, saving his father from bandits, then resuming his identity of John Tane, schoolteacher.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).