Who Were Those Masked Men and Women?
I was wondering how many Western themed masked mystery men and women there had been over the years, thinking I might find perhaps a dozen more or less, there were more than a dozen, a lot more than a dozen!
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This first masked western hero it seems was Deadwood Dick who appeared in a Penny Dreadful in 1877, but he never had a comic so our boy L. R. wins by default.
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Well.... Zorro appeared in a pulp magazine in 1919, and he was in a silent film in the 1920's, but L.R. still beat him into the comics.
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The character was in a big of mess of B-Movies that featured these almost surreal music numbers in the middle.
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Had a sidekick called Bullet Boy.
Bullet Boy
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Otherwise known as Tom Holt
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Started out as a bandit who died in the first story she appeared in, but was so popular she was brought back as the Red Mask's sometimes sidekick, and sometimes a solo heroine.
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Of course Marvel had to have at least one Masked Rider of the plains.
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He used magic tricks instead of guns
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Tex Mason, who started as a radio character in 1933 for three years as Buck Mason, then returned to the radio (Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Ranch) as Tex Mason. He was never the Lemonade Kid on the radio however, that was just the comic.
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Simon & Kirby do a masked rider of the plains.
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