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Scout
Publication information
PublisherEclipse Comics
ScheduleMonthly
FormatOngoing series
Publication dateSeptember 1985 – October 1987
No. of issues24
Main character(s)Emanuel Santana
Creative team
Created byTimothy Truman
Written byTimothy Truman
Letterer(s)Timothy Harkins
Colorist(s)Sam Parsons
Editor(s)Cat Yronwoode
Collected editions
Volume 1ISBN 1-933305-95-9
Volume 2ISBN 1-933305-60-6

Scout is a comic book series by American writer, artist and musician Timothy Truman. It was published by Eclipse Comics starting from 1985.

The story stars a Native American Apache named Emanuel Santana. The setting of the series is a dystopian United States that has become a Third World country.

Publication history

Twenty-four issues of the first series were published.

After the series ended, a short comic featuring Santana's marriage ceremony was published inside Timothy Truman's first album release entitled Marauder by his band The Dixie Pistols.

Two mini-series were published that 'bridged the gap' between the two Scout series: New America and Swords of Texas, each 4 issues long. While Truman oversaw them, others wrote and drew them. A one-shot 'Scout Handbook' was also published.

A new series entitled Scout: War Shaman continued Santana's adventures after having two children and being widowed. The series ended with issue #16, after Scout is killed. Further series were planned, Scout: Marauder and Scout: Blue Leader, but they have never appeared.

Plot

Relatively eco-political and also with a semi-mythical element (due to Emanuel Santana's Apache origin), both series had a gritty and violent portrayal of the future. The story posited that a history of past ecological excesses had led other nations to levy vast sanctions against the USA: the situation was similar to that of Germany after World War I, but instead of having lost a war of invasion, this was due to responsibility for "stealing" world resources.

Author Michael A. Sheyahshe noted in Native Americans in Comic Books – A Critical Study, that "Scout is presented in a respectful and genuine manner with tribally specific cultural ties."[1]

Collected editions

Eclipse did two trade paperback collections of the comic: Scout: Four Monsters (#1–7), and Scout: Mount Fire (#8–14).

Currently, Dynamic Forces/Dynamite Entertainment is doing a new series of reprints, which are 'remastered' and recolored:

  • Volume 1 (collects Scout #1–7, 136 pages, November 2006, ISBN 1-933305-95-9)
  • Volume 2 (collects Scout #8–16, 140 pages, August 2008, ISBN 1-933305-60-6)

References

  1. ^ Sheyahshe, Michael (2008). Native Americans in Comic Books – A Critical Study. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3565-4.