Cowboy Comics #78
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Kit Carson" in Cowboy Comics #78 (1953, Amalgamated Press, 8d) delivers a quirky, period-specific slice of frontier life, where a young woman's musings about rugged masculinity lead to an unexpectedly literal transformation. Written with a tongue-in-cheek tone and illustrated with the crisp, clean lines of the era, the story follows Alice’s curiosity about the strength of men like Kit Carson—only to find her own world reshaped by a simple newspaper ad for a bodybuilding course. The typeset lettering adds to the authentic 1950s charm of this short, character-driven tale.
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Alice wonders why Bob can't be more like the guys in her father's company who chop down trees. Bob can't see the appeal, but on seeing a newspaper ad for the Body Sculpture Club sends away for a bodybuilding course and that does the trick.
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