{"id":673,"date":"2026-01-20T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:00:50","slug":"the-mysterious-postercowboy-vintage-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/the-mysterious-postercowboy-vintage-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MYSTERIOUS POSTERCOWBOY Vintage Comic Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Very few people even know about this, but the original Postercowboy had his own comic book series once, aptly titled THE MYSTERIOUS POSTERCOWBOY. This was an English language publication, produced and printed in Berlin, Germany by the Postercowboy\u2019s own Rockin\u2019 H Production firm.

The target group was apparently Allied soldiers stationed in Germany. In an attempt to cash in on the high value of the US-$, the book shows a price tag of 10c, which was the common price for a comic in the US. This equaled 42 Pfennig for German buyers, more than four times the usual going rate of a comic book at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the series was only a moderate success and the few surviving copies are so rare, they are not even listed in any of the big comic book price guides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Rockin’ H Archives, here’s the cover of the very first issue from 1948:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Very few people even know about this, but the original Postercowboy had his own comic book series once, aptly titled THE MYSTERIOUS POSTERCOWBOY. This was an English language publication, produced and printed in Berlin, Germany by the Postercowboy\u2019s own Rockin\u2019 H Production firm. The target group was apparently Allied soldiers stationed in Germany. In an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t