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No to both. So at this point I will give a clue that should really make this easier. Part of his name refers to music, indicating the way he would smash his instrument on someones head every issue.
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Man, I've no clue! Except maybe "Banjo" was part of his name? Sounds like an appropriate motif somehow! Was there a Banjo Bill?
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Well, it doesn't seem to be any of the features from DC's major Western titles, so I'm at a loss, too.
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Jeepers! You guys had me doubting myself, so I went back and double-checked and no one has gotten it.
I say doubting myself because this character did indeed have his own feature in one of DC's major western titles in the era between Golden Age and Silver Age! This ongoing feature ran about 8 pages!
(There was no Banjo Bill--but there SHOULD HAVE BEEN!)
I guess one more round of guesses and then I just ask another more obscure, harder question?
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Not Foley, who is also a unique feature. I feel like you're on the cusp.
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Well, I've looked at every issue of All-Star Western and Western Comics on the GCD, and I'm not coming up with it.
I give up.
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There's one more western title from DC in the 50's that started as a superhero title and became a war title. Therein lies your answer.
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And the answer is Minstrel Maverick.
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Running in All-American Western (previously All-American Comics starring Green Lantern, the Atom and others, and later All-American Men at War starring Gunner & Sarge), Minstrel Maverick was a little known back-up feature with very little written about him on the Internet these days.
He's got a groovy write up somewhere online, I'll link to it when I'm not on my phone.
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I'd completely forgotten about All-American Western, but once I looked at it, it popped right out!
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He's actually on that list I linked as "Hank Hayes (New Earth)"! Damn, that Wikia site's a MESS! The "New Earth" part implies he's appeared or been referenced in current 'official' post-IC DC continuity as that site works. Didn't even click on it because Cobie said he's pre-Silver Age or what-not. Oh, wellz....
(Is it possible he's made a cameo in Jonah Hex's current book at some point to get the "New Earth" designation?)
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I'm pretty sure the wikipedia site is wrong. I've been aware of Minstrel Maverick for several years as one of those obscure characters I'm fascinated by. So I would have noticed if he showed up in Hex (which would have only been as a background cameo) and I even checked James Robinson's Starman for a possible mention of him. He's about as obscure as they get!
I don't own any comics with him in them, but I want to! (As far as I know, he only ever appeared in All-American Western).
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