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Sunday, April 30, 2023
THE RIFLE, MAN!
THE RIFLEMAN
1958-1963 ABC
THE RIFLE, MAN!
MAD #53, March 1960
w: Nick Meglin
a: Mort Drucker
This series centered on widowed Civil War veteran Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) living on a ranch in New Mexico with his son Mark (Johnny Crawford).
It is TV dance host Arthur Murray giving a trophy to Wyatt Earp in the opening.
The Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles a few years before this.
From How Different TV Cowboys Get Their Man in Cracked #27, November 1962, art by John Severin.
There was a comic book adaptation of the TV show. Sometimes a jpg of this cover gets passed on the internet.
Annie Oakley here is Gail Davis, who starred as her in a TV series a few years before this.
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