Brand Renewed

Max Brand’s Singing Guns first appeared in a weekly pulp magazine, Western Story, serialized in six installments between Dec. 15, 1928 and Jan. 19, 1929.


In 1938, it was published as a novel.

Returning to its pulp roots, a Singing Guns movie comic book was published in 1950 to tie-in with Republic’s partly-filmed in Sedona movie adaption.––Joe McNeill

Republic Tries to Draw Kids to the Matinee

To promote 1950’s Singing Guns, Republic Pictures had crooning star Vaughn “Old Leather Tonsils” Monroe pitch cereal in an ad that ran in Sunday Comics sections and urged theater managers to hold coloring contests for kids with art that prominently featured Sedona’s red rocks. Prior to taming the celluloid West, Monroe scored Hit Parade smashes with “Mule Train,” “Riders in the Sky,” and the traditional campfire ditty “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!”––Joe McNeill