Red Ryder

Red Ryder was a popular fictional cowboy who was created by the Americans Stephen Slesinger and Fred Harman.

Comic Series

In 1933, the cartoonist Fred Harman had called the Western hero Bronc Peeler to life, which was published as a half-page comic strip in various U.S. newspapers. 1938 convinced him of businessman Stephen Slesinger some changes to the concept of the comic book series make and to rename the title character in Red Ryder. Slesinger succeeded in the figure to the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA ) for sale, which helped the Red Ryder for a national breakthrough. From 1940 Red Ryder appeared also in Stephen Slesinger Hawley Publications Inc. as an independent comic magazine. At different publishers, it brought the book series until 1957 to 151 editions. To cope with the large number of publications Harman served was assisted by numerous ghostwriters, and contract subscribers.

Radio, Film and Television

On February 3, 1942, a temporary highly successful Red Ryder radio radio drama series was launched. Early as 1940, "The Adventures of Red Ryder " a first feature film was created with, should follow until the 1950s, many more. 1956 also was a Red Ryder television series.

Red Ryder in Spirou

As early as 1939 the comic cowboy had also found its way to Europe. In the early years of the Belgian comic magazine Spirou there many American series were published under license next productions yet. The Adventures of Red Ryder were in the readership of the magazine soon became so popular that the Red Ryder comics were reprinted in 1949 in Dupuis also as an album. The series was discontinued in 1957 after seven volumes, having started with Jerry Spring already in 1954, a cowboy from the pen of a Belgian ( Jijé ) his successor in Spirou magazine.

His first steps as a signatory of a Western Comics Jijé had also made ​​a decade earlier with the Red Ryder. When the artwork from America were failed during the Second World War, Jije had created his own sequels for the currently ongoing adventures in the magazine.

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