All-Star Western #62 is an issue of the series All-Star Western (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1952.
Synopsis for Strong Bow: "Pyramid of the Aztecs!"
Strong Bow travels all the way south to modern day Mexico, where he tries to help the Mayans to avoid the attacks of the Aztecs, who enslave them, to force them to built their pyramids. Strong Bow is taken a prisoner himself, and he works knowing that once the building is finished, he will be sacrificed alongside the Mayans. But as that day arrives he escapes, and defeats the Aztec ruler Chichen, then he helps the Mayans enslave the Aztecs, and leaves telling the Mayans that once the Aztecs rebuild their city and learn the folly of their ways they can be freed and both leave in peace.
Appearing in Strong Bow: "Pyramid of the Aztecs!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Chief Many Winds (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Chichen (Single appearance)
Locations:
Synopsis for Don Caballero: "The Vanishing Swordsman!"
Hawk Hill is haunted by The Vanishing Swordsman, the ghost of a criminal that was just executed, and that eerily disappears every night in quicksand. The Swordsman is looking for revenge on Judge Esteban, the man who ordered his execution.
Appearing in Don Caballero: "The Vanishing Swordsman!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Judge Esteban (Single appearance)
- Donna Esteban (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- The Vanishing Swordman (Single appearance)
Locations:
- American Old West
- Hawk Hills
Synopsis for Trigger Twins: "Medal for a Two-Faced Hero!"
After he rescues a stagecoach, Sheriff Walt trigger is invited by the town of Boulder Gulch to receive a medal. Tired of getting credit for his brother's heroics, he makes Wayne go in his place, but further trouble awaits in the other town.
Appearing in Trigger Twins: "Medal for a Two-Faced Hero!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Linda
- Jess Wilkins (Single appearance)
- Mayor Dacy
Antagonists:
- Noro (Single appearance)
- The Nester Boys (Single appearance)
- unnamed outlaws
Other Characters:
- express clerk (Single appearance)
Locations:
- American Old West
- Rocky City
- Boulder Gulch
Notes
- The Strong Bow history shows striking differences to the actual Aztecs and Mayans.
- The Mayans are living in a desert, with cactus, in an environment really different from their actual home in the jungles of southern Mexico and Central America. The Aztec ruler is called Chichen, which is a Mayan name, meaning they have a different culture and language in this reality, also, the Aztecs never used slaves to built their pyramids, and they never attacked Mayan people.
- These are either big historical mistakes on the writer, but it also could mean that Strong Bow doesn't live in either Earth-One or Earth-Two, where Mexico's history is much closer to the real one, and thus he would be a character from a different Earth.
- The small story about The Man Who Discovered Texas makes two important mistakes. First they give a wrong name for the conquistador they call Alvar Devaca, his correct name is Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. This comic also claims that the explorer returned with the help of the Indians to a Spanish settlement in California. Cabeza de Vaca actually returned to the Spaniards in a town near Culiacán in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, thousands of kilometers away from California, which he never visited.
Trivia
- Also appearing in this issue of All-Star Western were:
- "Come and Get It!" (text story)
- Legend of the Navajos: "The Man Who Discovered Texas" by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane, about Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, two pages.
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