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Last year, Bleeding Cool reported on comics publisher Fantagraphics decision to sue Emil Ferris, creator of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

It had not been a Merry Christmas for Billy the Kid, and it was not going to be a joyful New Year’s Day, either.

New Mexicos most famous outlaw was the center of a media circus in a Santa Fe jail after his arrest Dec. 28, 1880.

The phrase "Night at the Museum" might evoke a roaring Tyrannosaurus Rex and Teddy Roosevelt on horseback. But what visitors will see at the U.S. Marshals Museums first "Night at the Museum" event will be more about access, architecture and the American West, not animation or animatronics, says Leslie Higgins, the museums chief programs officer.

In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Be...

“American Midnight”

Scholars uncover answers and create more questions on the outlaw’s life and family from New York to New Mexico.This past year has been a watershed in terms of new scholarship on Billy the Kid. Here, in a True West exclusive, are the new finds you need to know about.

The audacious outlaw fought and raided his rival renegades without retribution.