Jesse James: The Classic Western Collection

by Carmine Infantino

America's number one outlaw, Jesse James, with a price on his head and a six-gun shooting hot lead, rides a danger trail after a fortune in Apache gold in "Apache Treasure". Shooting a path through posses and Pinkerton detectives, Frank and Jesse James ride over the Kansas-Missouri border. Riding to meet them with blazing six-guns is a beautiful lady outlaw in "The James Boys' Revenge!" These are just a few of the pulse-pounding tales of Jesse James. In the old West the young gunslinger Jesse James rode a hard road to become a legend. This graphic novel collects the classic 1950s outlaw stories of the often heroic Jesse James, by comic book legends Joe Kubert and Carmine Infantino.

Genres: Graphic Novels

111 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2000

About the author

Carmine Michael Infantino was an American comics artist and editor, primarily for DC Comics, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine...

Reviews

[Michael P. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not worth many words, so I'll just say that the introduction lies somewhere between unreliable and useless. There is no TOC or formal art credits. The Grand Comic Book Database seems to disagree with some of the attributions, though without a decent introduction or credits it is a matter of disagreeing with inferences. The stories have some interest as examples of early continuity but just are not very good.

[J.R. Santos · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun read with the expected embellishments

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

this reads like a Texas school board version of history.

Jesse robs his first bank because carpetbaggers are stealing food from his mama. Jesse robs his second bank because the evil banker is foreclosing on mama's house. Jesse James, he just loves his mama. Jesse kills a banker 'cause the banker hit a pretty girl. Jesse kills another banker cause the banker was stealing from a pretty girl. Jesse becomes a sheriff and gets the real bad guys killed (and steals the money).

poor ole jesse always been picked on and forced to kill lawmen and rob banks. other than the whole make him into a hero thing, the art is great.

[Matt · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hate the justification of criminality, so Jesse's saying he only shoots men in self-defense is annoying because he's robbing banks at the time. There's also Confederate undertones to the whole thing. And, yes, the narrator seems to agree with Jesse's POV.