History ComicBook / BlazeOfGlory

Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The ComicBook/RawhideKid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and The ComicBook/OutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The Indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].

''Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes'' is a 4-issue miniseries by Creator/MarvelComics written by Creator/JohnOstrander and drawn by Creator/LeonardoManco.

''Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes'' is a 4-issue miniseries written by Creator/JohnOstrander and drawn by Creator/LeonardoManco. A more realistic take on [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]]'s western heroes, it retcons some of the original stories (most notably the aforementioned Gunhawks) as simply [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis dime novel retellings of real events]]. The same creative team would go on to make a sucessor to this story for the Creator/MarvelMAX imprint, starring the Rawhide Kid and titled ComicBook/ApacheSkies.

* WorthyOpponent: Caleb may not show it much, but he displays this opinion about Kid Colt in the finale, yelling at Gunhawk and saying Colt was a better person than he, no matter what he did.

* NamesTheSame:
** A visual gag in issue #4 has [[TheTropeKid all four heroic Kids]] in the story respond to hearing the yell "Hey, Kid!". Kid Cassidy also counts, [[spoiler:though he ain't what you'd call heroic any more.]]
** Two-Gun Kid's new cover identity of Clay Harper shares a first name with Clay Riley, the villain of our story.
** The haunted horseman Ghost Rider shares his first and last names with the native girl Ghost Wind Rider.
** The nameless BountyHunter Gunhawk shares his name with an in-universe dime novel about Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy. It isn't confirmed whether the duo ever used the name for themselves in reality, though.

* PutOnABus: When asked what became of the other Sunset Riders, Marcel Fournier explains that Walking Fish is with his tribe and Hijiro went to San Francisco, so they can't participate in [[KillEmAll the events to come]]. Granted, this could have easily been [[spoiler:Marcel lying out of his ass.]]

** A visual gag in issue #4 has [[TheTropeKid all four heroic Kids]] in the story respond to hearing the yell "Hey, Kid!". Kid Cassidy also counts[[spoiler:, though he ain't what you'd call heroic any more]].

* AntagonistInMourning: A HeroAntagonist, but Caleb is ''not'' pleased at seeing Gunhawk [[spoiler: shoot down Kid Colt in cold blood.]]

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Marcel Fournier]] turns out to be a spy for the nightriders.

* BountyHunter: Gunhawk is looking to collect the bounty on Kid Colt. [[spoiler: He does kill him, but Caleb doesn't give him the chance to profit off of it.]]

* TheCavalry: In an inversion of the trope's original form, it is [[spoiler: Red Wolf and his tribe]] who show up to save the day in the last issue.
* DeadGuyJunior: This is what Reno tried to invoke when he named his son 'Cass', after Kid Cassidy. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope He really ought to have made sure he was dead.]]]]

* DoingInTheWizard: If you never read an issue of Carter Slade!Ghost Rider, you might not guess that [[spoiler: there's nothing supernatural about him at all. It's just a phosphorecent costume]].

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Two-Gun wants to die like this. Sadly, [[spoiler: we don't get to see if he got his wish]].

* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] Better examples are Gunhawk and Caleb Hammer.

* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good. Marcel Fournier also counts as one for Two-Gun Kid, as they were once part of the Sunset Riders.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After the shootout in Issue #3, the narration describes Red Wolf descending into the gorge into which Reno Jones fell. [[spoiler: This is to set up his return as the Ghost Rider.]]

--> ''[[TheHatMakesTheMan My mask!]] He'll see... Pa will see... he'll know...!'' \\

* InspectorJavert: PinkertonDetective Caleb Hammer is hunting down Kid Colt for murdering a sheriff. Colt only manages to [[DiggingYourselfDeeper dig himself deeper]] over the course of the story by gunning down Caleb's friends. [[spoiler: This doesn't stop Caleb from avenging him in the finale.]]
* InTheBack: Kid Colt [[spoiler: is shot in the back by Gunhawk in the finale]].

* LooseCanon: It's left ambiguous how much of the [[DirectLineToTheAuthor dime novels]] is accurate. We're meant to assume that [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory it's not much.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Reno Jones]] is left for dead only to come back for the finale.

--> ''C'mon, you owlhoots! '''C'mon!''' You want a piece of me?! '''C'mon!!!''' I may be bound for hell but I'm TakingYouWithMe!''

* PutOnABus: When asked what became of the other Sunset Riders, Marcel Fournier explains that Walking Fish is with his tribe and Hijiro went to San Francisco, so they can't participate in [[KillEmAll the events to come]]. Granted, this could have easily been [[spoiler: Marcel lying out of his ass]].
* PyrrhicVictory: Caleb expresses this sentiment to Rawhide in the ending. Indeed, [[spoiler: half of Wonderment and the majority of the cast are now dead, so]] the reader may be left with this sensation as well.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Riley could have just sat back and let Wonderment be destroyed, but decides to lead the battle personally just so he can murder his old nemesis the Ghost Rider himself. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a rash decision.]]

* SympathyForTheDevil: Caleb Hammer spent a long time chasing after Kid Colt because he murdered a sheriff. During the series, Colt also murders some of Hammer's comrades in anger, and they are not on good terms come Issue #4. But even so, that doesn't mean Caleb wanted [[spoiler: him to go the way he did]].

--> ''"I only drink with '''friends''', and because of '''you''', Colt, I got fewer of those. So, no sir, I will '''not''' drink with you."''
* TemptingFate: Kid Colt [[spoiler: is shot InTheBack by Gunhawk just he says things look to be working out fine]].

* AntagonistInMourning: A HeroAntagonist, but Caleb is ''not'' pleased at seeing Gunhawk [[spoiler: shoot down Kid Colt in cold blood]].

Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The ComicBook/RawhideKid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and ComicBook/TheOutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The Indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].

Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The ComocBook/RawhideKid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and ComicBook/TheOutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The Indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].