by Paul Green
El Latigo fights a group of killer mummies who target a beautiful girl and her family in this third film in the series.
El Látigo contra Satanás
(1979) [Film; Mexico; WW]
Premiere: October 4, 1979; Main Cast: Juan Miranda as El Latigo, Noé Murayama, Yolanda Ochoa, Rubén Rojo as Padre; Executive Producer: Paco del Busto; Producer: Roberto Rodríguez; Story: Alfredo B. Crevenna, Roberto Rodríguez, Ramón Obón; Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna; 80 min.; Películas Latinoamericanas S.A.; Spanish; Color.
El Latigo clashes with Satan and his minions. Second film in the El Latigo series.
Latigo Kid Western
[Comic book; WW]
“PARANORMAL GUNFIGHTER OF THE WEST”
First publication: 1988; Story: Bill Black; Art: Bill Black, John Severin; Publisher AC Comics.
In the late 1870s, young range rider Charlie Starrett discovers he has special abilities of mind over matter. Doc Marvel develops Starrett's paranormal powers as he travels the Old West with Marvel's medicine show. Charlie finally decides the time is right to venture out on his own and fights crime as the masked gunfighter, The Latigo Kid.
Guest stars include The Black Phantom, Red Mask and The Durango Kid, plus Steve McQueen as bounty hunter Josh Randall from the TV Western Wanted Dead or Alive. A mixture of Bill Black artwork and John Severin artwork from Billy the Kid creates a new story.
Black recalled, “Doc Marvel was a jab at Marvel Comics. Doc Marvel became Doctor Lieber, one of AC's vilest villains. He headed the Paragon Foundation and intended to live forever. He was named Lieber because Stan Lee's real name is Lieber.”
See: Paragon
Law Dogs
[RPG book; WW]
Author: Steven Long ; First publication: 1998; Setting: Deadlands: The Weird West; Publisher: Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
A guide to upholding the law and lawmen including The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Secret Service, Sheriffs and Texas Rangers. Includes the adventure “On Top of Old Skull Hill, All Covered in Blood” and a guide to the art of Hexslingers and Hexes.
Lee, Stan
(1922-) [Comic book editor, writer, publisher]
Born in New York City, Stan Lee's first published work was the two-page text story “Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge” for Captain America #3 in May 1941. Although born Stanley Martin Lieber, he signed his work Stan Lee and set in motion a career that revolutionized the comics industry.
The cousin of publisher Martin Goodman's wife, Lee succeeded Joe Simon as editor of Timely Comics at the young age of 19 and entered the U.S. Army the following year, serving until the end of World War II in 1945. When he returned to Timely, the superhero titles were on a downward slide to cancellation. Horror, science fiction and Westerns took prominence. Lee provided plots for Timely's (now known as Atlas) various titles. The plots were then passed to the writers who created working scripts for the artists. This process became more flexible in the 1960s when Lee adopted the “Marvel Method” that involved the artist providing input at an earlier stage.
Although the majority of Western titles involved standard storylines, Lee did include fantastic elements that became increasingly weird when Atlas imploded due to weak sales and was succeeded by Marvel Comics. This period of transition proved a low point in Lee's career and he seriously considered leaving the industry. But he stayed and ushered in the “Marvel Age,” turning the comic industry on its head with the co-creation of top-selling titles Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.
The Western titles continued to be published but were largely ignored by a comic-reading public mainly interested in the trials and tribulations of Lee's new brand of “superhero with problems.” By 1967 most of the remaining Western titles contained reprints with new cover art aimed at fooling the reader into thinking they were buying new stories. An attempt a reviving Ghost Rider failed.
In 1972 Lee was promoted to publisher and ultimately became chairman emeritus of Marvel Enterprises Inc. and executive producer of the motion picture productions. The expansion of Marvel into film and television has kept his creations alive but the Western characters Kid Colt Outlaw, Two-Gun Kid and Rawhide Kid have to date taken a back seat in film adaptations. In 2001 Lee, Gill Champion and Arthur Leiberman founded the production company POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment Inc. to specialize in the new characters and franchises created by Lee.
Lee Winters
[Pulp fiction character; WW]
Weird Western stories with a preternatural twist by Lon Williams featuring Deputy Marshall Lee Winters of Forlorn Gap and his horse Cannon Ball as they encounter all manner of strange happenings in the surrounding environs of Alkali Flats, Elkhorn Pass, Wild Cat Gulch, Black Fox Gap, Cow Creek, Goat Head Pass, Gallitena Gulch and Banshee Creek. The mature Winters is married to the beautiful young widow Myra. The stories were published throughout the 1950s in Real Western Stories.
Lee Winters from “Master of Indecision,” Real Western Stories (April 1953).
Left for Dead
(2007) [Film; Argentina; WW]
Premiere: September 8, 2007; Main Cast: Victoria Maurette as Clementine Templeton, Mariana Seligmann as Michelle Black; Producers: Kamel Krifa, Patricia K. Meyer; Story: Chad Leslie; Director: Albert Pyun; Sophia Productions; Color.
A vengeful demonic spirit traps a criminal and pursuing posse headed by Clementine Templeton in the Mexican ghost town of Amnesty.
Leftovers
[RPG book; WW]
Author: Shane Lacy Hensley; First publication: 1998; Deadlands: Hell on Earth Dime novel series #1; Publisher: Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Teller and Tasha attempt to stop a war between the norms and muties in the Wasted West.
Legend
(1995) [TV series; SFW]
Hack dime novel writer Ernest Pratt (Richard Dean Anderson) is mistaken for the romantic hero he created, Nicodemus Legend.
The Bartok Steam-Powered Town and Country Quadrovelocipede and Electro-fulminators plus a pair of wings that Legend puts to good use are just a few of the various inventions of Hungarian scientist and genius Janos Bartok (John de Lancie), providing the series with science fiction and steampunk elements.
Premiere: April 18, 1995; Main Cast: Richard Dean Anderson as Ernest Pratt, John de Lancie as Janos Bartok, Mark Adair-Rios as Huitzilopochtli Ramos, Jarrad Paul as Skeeter; Creators: Bill Dial, Michael Piller; Executive Producers: Michael Greenburg, Michael Piller; 60 min.; Gekko Film Corp., United Paramount Network (UPN); Color.
Season One
Birth of a Legend (1:01); Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan (1:02); Legend on His President's Secret Service (1:03); Custer's Next to Last Stand (1:04); The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickok (1:05); Knee-High Noon (1:06); The Gospel According to Legend (1:07); Bone of Contention (1:08); Revenge of the Herd (1:09); Fall of a Legend (1:10); Clueless in San Francisco (1:11); Skeletons in the Closet (1:12)
The Legend of Ghostwolf
(2005) [Film; WW]
Premiere: July 19, 2005; Main Cast: John Weathers as Sarge, Hugo Perez as Jalisco; Producer-Story-Director: Shane Scott; 84 min.; Color.
When Jalisco and renegade soldiers search for Confederate gold in the Tonkawa gold mine, they encounter the monstrous guardian.
The Legend of Joe Moon
[Comic book; WW]
First publication: March 2008; Story: Gonzalo Ventura; Art: Manuel and Leonardo Silva; Publisher: Pit Brothers Productions.
Horror Western featuring Clint Eastwood lookalike Joe Moon, a bounty hunter who transforms into a werewolf. Described by the publisher as “The first Spaghetti Lycanthro-Western.”
Legend of the Phantom Rider
(2002) [Film; WW]
Premiere: 2002; Main Cast: Denise Crosby as Sarah Jenkins, Robert McRay as Blade/Pelgidium, Angus Scrimm as Preacher; Producers: Alex Erkiletian, Hans Rodionoff, Tod Swindell; Story: Robert Ray; Director: Alex Erkiletian; 100 min.; Rolle's Range Farm Productions; Color.
> Blade brutally murders Sarah Jenkins' husband and son and hold a town hostage until the mysterious supernatural phantom rider known as Pelgidium appears on the scene to exact revenge.
Legends of the DC Universe
[Comic book; SFW]
“The Trail of the Traitor” #20-21 (September-October 1999); Editor: Mike Carlin; Story: Steven Grant; Pencils: Mike Zeck; Inks: Klaus Janson.
The red-skinned Green Lantern Abin Sur tracks intergalactic warlord Traitor to Arizona territory in 1882 and encounters racial prejudice from the local townsfolk.
Legion of Super Heroes
(2006) [Animated TV series]
The Adventures of teenage super-heroes from 1,000 years into the future.
“UNNATURAL ALLIANCES” (2:07)
Air date: November 17, 2007; Voice Cast: Jeff Black as Terra-Man, Phil Morris as Imperiex, Madison Davenport as Abel, Yuri Lowenthall as Kell-El, Kari Wahlgren as Duo Damsel, Michael Cornaccia as Bouncing Boy, Bumper Robinson as Star Boy, Adam Wylie as Brainiac 5; Producers: James Tucker, Linda M. Steiner; Story: Keith Damron; Director: Brandon Vietti; 20 min; Kids' WB; Color.
Terra-Man and his robotic bounty hunters from the 41st century travel to the past to search for young orphan Abel, who holds the key to his future existence.
The Lemonade Kid
[Comic book character; WMW]
First appearance: Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders #1 (1950); Art: Bob Powell; Publisher: Magazine Enterprises, Parkway Publishing Company. AC Comics.
His shirt is golden and his twin sixguns are steel blue! His drink is lemonade...
Tex Mason is a busy man. As foreman of B-Bar-B Ranch he is guardian to orphan Bobby Benson. But unknown to all, he is also a security officer for the F.B.I. who fights crime as the Lemonade Kid.
The Lemonade Kid featured weird and unusual characters including a criminal known as The Spider who dressed in a spider outfit and caught his enemies in webs. Bob Powell provided the artwork for the 13-issue run in Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders with Gardner Fox and Powell providing the majority of the stories.
The Lemonade Kid in “Webs of Doom!” from Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders #4 (November-December 1950). Story: Gardner Fox; Art: Bob Powell. © 2009 AC Comics/Nightveil Media, Inc. Used with permission.
The Lemonade Kid in “The Webs of Doom!” page 1. Story: Gardner Fox; Art: Bob Powell. © 2009 AC Comics/Nightveil Media, Inc. Used with permission.
“THE CLUTCHING CLAWS OF TERROR” [WMW]
First published: Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B-Riders #13 (February 1952); Art: Bob Powell; Publisher: Magazine Enterprises.
When archeologists discover a cave which houses ancient petrified Indians and the gold and jewels of their civilization, a winged, clawed “creature” which guards the treasure attacks and kills them. But the “creature” is just a fake created by thieves so they can take the treasure for themselves.
This was the only story to feature Bobby Benson and Lemonade Kid together.
Life with Snarky Parker
(1950) [Children's TV series; Comic book; WW]
1. Premiere: January 9, 1950; Creators: Bill and Cora Baird; Producers: Bill and Cora Baird, Frank Fazakas; Director: Yul Brynner; 15 min.; CBS Television Network; b/w.
Marionette Western set in the Old West town of Hotrock. Deputy Sheriff Snarky Parker and his horse Heathcliffe attempt to rid Hotrock of villainous Ronald Rodent.
2. Comic book
First publication: August 1950; One issue; Publisher: Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Sheriff Snarky's attempt to return hidden gold dust to a cave in the hills results in an encounter with Gordon the Ghost and the dastardly Nolan.
Light the Fuse ... Sartana Is Coming
(1971) [Film; Italy-Spain; WW]
U.S. release title for Una Nuvola di polvere ... un grido di morte ... arriva Sartana.
The Lightning Warrior
(1931) [Film serial; WMW]
Premiere: 1931; Main Cast: Rin Tin Tin as Rinty, Frankie Darro as Jimmy Carter, George Brent as Alan Scott, Pat O'Malley as Sheriff A. W. Brown, Georgia Hale as Dianne; Producer: Nat Levine; Story: Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens, Colbert Clark; Directors: Armand Schaefer, Ben Kline; 250 min.; Mascot Pictures Corporation; b/w.
A cloaked figure known as the “Wolf Man” is terrorizing a community and stirring Indian unrest against settlers. Rin-Tin-Tin's final serial.
Chapter Titles: 1. The Drums of Doom; 2. The Wolf Man; 3. Empty Saddles; 4. Flaming Arrows; 5. The Invisible Enemy; 6. The Fatal Name; 7. The Ordeal of Fire; 8. The Man Who Knew; 9. Traitor's Hour; 10. The Secret of the Cane; 11. Red Shadows; 12. Painted Faces.
Lilly the Witch
(2003) [Animated TV series; Germany-Ireland]
An enchanted book allows Lilly to travel through time with the help of Hector the pint-sized dragon. But she must keep the magical book a secret to protect it from evildoers. Based on the series of books by Knister.
“LILLY IN THE WILD WEST” (1:03) [SFW]
Air date: September 7, 2004; 25 min.; Magma Films Ltd., Trixter Film, Vivatoon; Color.
Traveling back in time to prove there were girl sheriffs in the Old West, Lilly is asked to be the new sheriff and to capture the gang that has kidnapped Hector.
Little Gods
[Book Anthology; WW]
Author: Tim Pratt; First publication: Canton OH: Prime Books, 2003.
This collection of four poems and fifteen tales of fantasy and horror includes the Weird Western “Bleeding West.” This short story about good and evil spirits in the Old West was originally published in Deep Outside in August 2001.
A Little Time in Texas
[Novel; SFW]
Author: Joan Johnston; First publication: Silhouette Desire, 1992.
Angela Taylor, rescued from renegades by a Texas Ranger in 1864, is now trapped in modern-day America, surrounded by people who don't believe she is from the past.
Lobo Elseworlds
[Comic book; SFW]
“A Fistful of Bastiches” Annual #2 (1994); Editor: Dan Rasplar; Publisher: DC Comics.
Anthology of Western strips in the DC Elseworlds Universe.
Lone
[Comic book; SFW]
First publication: September 2003; Story: Stuart Moore; Art: Jerome Opena, Alberto Ponticelli, John Wycough; Six-issue mini-series; Publisher: Rocket Comics–Dark Horse Comics.
Legendary gun-for-hire Lone must save the post-apocalyptic town of Desolation from zombie mutants.
The Lone Ranger
(1966) [Animated TV series; WW]
Premiere: September 10, 1966; Voice cast: Michael Rye as The Lone Ranger, Shepard Menken as Tonto; Executive producer: Arthur A. Jacobs; 27 × 30 min; Lone Ranger Productions, Jack Wrather Corporation; Color.
Although based on the familiar radio, television and film character, this animated series introduced a Weird Western perspective. The dark atmosphere of the episodes with plots involving ghosts, witches, vampires, monsters, devils and villains such as Doctor Destructo and Puppetmaster showed influences of the TV series The Wild, Wild, West that was popular at the time.
Season One
The Trickster/Crack of Doom/The Human Dynamo (1:01); Ghost Riders/Wrath of the Sun God/Day of the Dragon (1:02); The Secret Army of General X/The Cat People/Night of the Vampire (1:03); Bear Claw/The Hunter and the Hunted/ Mephisto (1:04); Revenge of the Mole/Frog People/Terror in Toyland (1:05); Black Mask of Revenge/The Sacrifice/Puppetmaster (1:06); Valley of the Dead/Forest of Death/The Fly (1:07); A Time to Die/Ghost Tribe of Comanche Flat/Attack of the Lilliputians (1:08); Circus of Death/The Brave/Cult of the Black Widow (1:09); El Conquistador/Snow Creature/The Prairie Pirate (1:10); Man of Silver/Nightmare in Whispering Pine/Sabotage (1:11); Mastermind/The Lost Tribe of Golden Giants/Monster of Scavenger Crossing (1:12); The Black Panther/Thomas the Great/Island of the Black Widow (1:13)
Season Two
Premiere: September 9, 1967
Paddle Wheeling Pirates/A Day at Death's Head Pass/Mad, Mad, Mad, Ma
d Scientist (2:01); The Kid/Stone Hawk/Sky Raiders (2:02); The Man from Pinkerton/Tonto and the Devil Spirit/Deadly Glassman (2:03); Black Knight of Death/Taka/Fire Rain (2:04); The Secret of Warlock/Wolfmaster/Death Hunt (2:05); Terrible Tiny Tom/Fire Monster/The Iron Giant (2:06); Towntamers, Inc./Curse of the Devil Doll/It Came from Below (2:07); The Trickster/Crack of Doom/The Human Dynamo (2:08); Mister Happy/ Birdman/Doctor Destructo (2:09); Mister Midas/Black Arrow/The Rainmaker (2:10); Flight of the Hawk/The Avenger/Battle at Barnaby's Bend (2:11); Puppetmaster's Revenge/Reign of the Queen Bee/Kingdom of Terror (2:12); Quicksilver/The Legend of Cherokee Smith/The Day the West Stood Still (2:13); Border Rats/The Lash and the Arrow/Spectre of Death (2:14)
Lone Ranger and Tonto
[Comic book; WW]
First publication: August 1994; Story: Joe R. Lansdale; Art: Tim Truman, Rick Magyar; Four-issue mini-series; Publisher: Topps Comics.
Lansdale's unique Weird Western spin on the classic characters involving stolen cursed Aztec artifacts.
