SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 17—MAVERICK

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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