Mounties in Comics (USA)

Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted, No. 21, June - August 1956, Dell Comics. The artwork is by Albert Gioletti who was best known for Turok, Son of Stone, which was written by Paul S. Newman.

Mounties in the Comics: Yukon Charlie (Scotland)

Lord of the Yukon appeared in a Scottish D. C. Thomson comic The Victor and was borrowed from here. If prizes were given for the oddest looking mountie ever Yukon Charlie would be a shoe-in with his short figure and wizened face.

Another unique idea was Space Mounties written by Pierre Veys and illustrated by Guilhem. An interesting article on mountie comics is : La Police Montée canadienne dans les Petits Formats found here. Or a translated version here.

Mounties in the Comics: Batman of the Mounties (US)

This cover was actually drawn by Win (James Winslow) Mortimer who was born May 1, 1919 in Hamilton, Ontario, and died January 11, 1998. In 1950 Mortimer took over the Superman daily strip. There is an in-depth look at this comic at Blackmarket Pies blog

Mounties in the Comics: Dudley Do-Right

Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, we salute you. Dudley was hands down the most famous cartoon Mountie ever created. His hilarious melodramamatic adventures appeared on NBC's Bullwinkle Show, broadcast from 1961 to 1964. Dudley was voiced by Bill Scott, Nell Fenwick by June Foray, and William Conrad was the narrator. Dudley-Do-Right's name is invoked in parliament, on blogs and in coffee-shop conversation. Canadians have embraced the character as their own, and the death of writer Chris Hayward was occasion for this obituary on the CBC.

Mounties in the Comics: Dick Daring (UK) 1958

Thriller Picture Library was published under Leonard Matthews at Fleetway Publications in London. One Dick Daring cartoonist was Italian Sergio Tarquinio. The Fleetway Libraries were pocket-size with b&w interior pages. My good friend Steve Holland has identified the cover artists seen here >

"Artists were Jordi Penalva (300), Stefan Barany (312), and Nino Caroselli (319). There's a book coming out in October called "The Art of War" by David Roach which includes many, many examples of Penalva and Caroselli cover art for the war picture libraries also published by Fleetway."

Thrill of a Lifetime

The mountie as an iconic image of Canada is used and recognised worldwide. American Harold Tucker Webster drew this cartoon with a Canadian background for April 8, 1933. A long article about Webster appeared in Time magazine in 1945.