LONE STAR AND THE SHOWDOWNERS

A series to cash in on the success of the LONGARM books. 

When I asked the man who created the LONGARM series if he had created and was working on LONE STAR, too, he said, "Hell no.  This is little more than the Lone Ranger - with tits!" (His words, not mine).

Don't really know when LONE STAR ended, but she may still pop up occasionally in one of those LONGARM giant editions. 

Can't fault the cover art here.  In fact, I'm fairly certain that I've had that same stupid grin on my face as the lucky cowhand in question does when the pretty girl I'm still married to pulls MY pants off. 

THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER

Gary McCarthy's good novelization of a terrible movie. 

Does anyone remember Klinton Spillsbury?  No?  Playing Jim Reid turned out to be a one-shot deal for him.  Reports were that his ego went WAY out of control and he became an insufferable putz during filming. 

That, along with the fact that the movie bombed, pretty much assured us that ol' Klinton was going back to washing spoons somewhere.  His speaking voice was so bad, on top of everything else, that the producers hired Stacy Keach as a vocal sub. 

Thank God they got a writer of Gary's stature to salvage some of this mess.