It's time to push through the batwing doors and start living on Jacks and Queens for Episode 17 of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Have a seat at the poker table with Paul and Rich as they deal in one of the most fondly remembered Western TV icons—The cardsharp and reluctant hero known as Maverick...
01:20 — Rich reviews PULP, a new graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
03:16 — Props to our behind-the-scenes friends, Ed Robertson, Lee Goldberg, and Max Allan Collins
04:18 — Roy Huggins and the Origin of Maverick
08:54 — Not a Comedy Western, but a Western with Humor
10:00 — Huggins’ Ten Point Guide to Maverick’s Success
12:00 — Enter Jack Kelly as Bart
14:20 — Rich and Paul share Maverick’s “Pappyisms.”
15:40 — Exit Garner, Enter Moore…
16:45 — …and Robert Colbert
17:05 — Paul and Rich share their favorite episodes
21:40 — The New Maverick and Young Maverick fold
23:16 — 1981’s Brett Maverick plays his hand
25:33 — The Not-So Magnificent Six
26:40 — What Might Have Been—with Jack Kelly
28:30 — Richard Donner’s Big Screen Maverick
31:00 — Paul Newman as Maverick?
33:49 — Max Allan Collins on the movie tie-in novel
35:52 — Rich looks at the Whitman juvenile tie-in novel
38:29 — Paul reviews the Little Golden Book
39:48 — Our heroes explore the Maverick comics and licensed oddities
43:25 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs
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