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Weird Western Tales: History, Publication history & Collected editions

Weird Western Tales is a Western genre comics anthology published by DC Comics from June–July 1972 to August 1980. It is best known for featuring the adventures of Jonah Hex until #38 (Jan.–Feb. 1977) when the character was promoted to his own eponymous series. Scalphunter then became the featured character in Weird Western Tales.

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Weird Western Tales topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Publication history and Collected editions as prominent areas in the source structure around Weird Western Tales.

Related topics
17
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
20
Extracted relationships
37
Related term clusters
16
Bridge connections
20

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Publication history · 10 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Collected editions · 2 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Publication date
(vol. 1) June–July 1972 – August 1980 (vol. 2) April 2001–July 2001
Publisher
DC Comics
Format
Ongoing series
Inker
Frank Springer George Evans Danny Bulanadi Luis Dominguez Romeo Tanghal
Main character(s)
Jonah Hex Scalphunter Cinnamon
No. of issues
Vol. 1: 59 Vol. 2: 4

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Overview

Publication history

Collected editions

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How Weird Western Tales connects Entity context

The extracted context around Weird Western Tales shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Weird Western Tales → All-Star Western, April, August, Cinnamon, Comics Code Authority, Jack Abel, Jonah Hex, July, June, March, Oct, Roger McKenzie, Scalphunter, Sept, Weird War Tales, When Jonah Hex Another extracted example is Weird Western Tales → ISBN, Jonah HexVolume, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, March, November, Showcase Presents, Wikisource-logo, XVolume. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Weird Western Tales

Top relations

related to Original series · 16
Weird Western Tales → All-Star Western, April, August, Cinnamon, Comics Code Authority, Jack Abel, Jonah Hex, July, June, March, Oct, Roger McKenzie, Scalphunter, Sept, Weird War Tales, When Jonah Hex
related to Collected editions · 10
Weird Western Tales → ISBN, Jonah HexVolume, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, March, November, Showcase Presents, Wikisource-logo, XVolume
Format · 1
Weird Western Tales → Ongoing series
Inker · 1
Weird Western Tales → Frank Springer George Evans Danny Bulanadi Luis Dominguez Romeo Tanghal
Main character(s) · 1
Weird Western Tales → Jonah Hex Scalphunter Cinnamon
No. of issues · 1
Weird Western Tales → Vol. 1: 59 Vol. 2: 4
Penciller · 1
Weird Western Tales → Tony DeZuniga Neal Adams Gil Kane Bill Draut Alfredo Alcala José Luis García-López Howard Chaykin Dick Ayers
Publication date · 1
Weird Western Tales → (vol. 1) June–July 1972 – August 1980 (vol. 2) April 2001–July 2001
Publisher · 1
Weird Western Tales → DC Comics
Schedule · 1
Weird Western Tales → Bimonthly/Monthly

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Important terminology

western series weird tales vol july jonah character june 1972 original issue comics hex scalphunter august 1980 12 title issues

Weird Western Tales relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 37 structured relationships around Weird Western Tales. Examples in this analysis include Weird Western Tales → Format → Ongoing series and Weird Western Tales → Inker → Frank Springer George Evans Danny Bulanadi Luis Dominguez Romeo Tanghal. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Weird Western TalesFormatOngoing series1.00infobox
Weird Western TalesInkerFrank Springer George Evans Danny Bulanadi Luis Dominguez Romeo Tanghal1.00infobox
Weird Western TalesMain character(s)Jonah Hex Scalphunter Cinnamon1.00infobox
Weird Western TalesNo. of issuesVol. 1: 59 Vol. 2: 41.00infobox
Weird Western TalesPencillerTony DeZuniga Neal Adams Gil Kane Bill Draut Alfredo Alcala José Luis García-López Howard Chaykin Dick Ayers1.00infobox
Weird Western TalesPublication date(vol. 1) June–July 1972 – August 1980 (vol. 2) April 2001–July 20011.00infobox
Weird Western TalesPublisherDC Comics1.00infobox
Weird Western TalesScheduleBimonthly/Monthly1.00infobox
Weird Western TalesWritten byJohn Albano Cary Bates Michael Fleisher Gerry Conway Roger McKenzie1.00infobox
Weird Western Talesis aWestern genre comics anthology published by DC Comics from June0.90text
Weird Western Talesrelated to Collected editionsShowcase Presents0.60section
Weird Western Talesrelated to Collected editionsJonah HexVolume0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Weird Western Tales bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Tales, Weird and Western. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Weird Western Tales
    • Tales
    • Weird
    • Western
    • Original
    • Series
    • March
    • Scalphunter
    • Comics
    • Hex
    • June
    • Issue
    • Jonah
  • weird western tales
    • Tales
    • Weird
    • Western
    • June
    • Issue
    • Jonah
    • July
    • Original
    • Series
    • March
    • Scalphunter
    • Comics
  • western comics
    • Tales
    • Weird
    • Dc
    • June
    • Issue
    • Jonah
    • July
    • Original
    • Series
    • March
    • Scalphunter
    • Hex
  • all-star western
    • Tales
    • Weird
    • June
    • Issue
    • Jonah
    • July
    • Original
    • Series
    • March
    • Scalphunter
    • Hex
    • Vol
  • weird war tales
    • Tales
    • Weird
    • Western
    • Original
    • Series
    • March
    • Scalphunter
    • Comics
    • June
    • Issue
    • Jonah
    • July
  • scalphunter (dc comics)
    • Dc
    • Joe
    • Jonah
    • Kubert
    • Publication
    • Published
    • April
    • August
    • Cinnamon
    • Roger
    • Tales
    • Weird
  • cinnamon (comics)
    • Dc
    • Roger
    • Issues
    • Scalphunter
    • Title
    • Hex
    • Joe
    • Kubert
    • Publication
    • Published
    • Tales
    • Weird
  • jonah hex
    • Jonah
    • Issues
    • Scalphunter
    • March
    • Western
    • Issue
    • Original
    • April
    • Cinnamon
    • Eponymous
    • Roger
    • Tales

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Weird Western Tales, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Weird Western Tales with Publication history. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Weird Western Tales — Publication history · splits 10 ⟂ 11
Weird Western Tales — Overview · splits 15 ⟂ 6
Weird Western Tales — Collected editions · splits 18 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Weird Western Tales

Nodes21
Edges20
Triples37
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.095238
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Weird Western Tales to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Publication history & Collected editions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Weird Western Tales · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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