El Javanés

Set in the lawless landscape of the American Old West, El Javanés is a Spanish western comic published by Ediciones Toray from 1970 to 1971. Running for just ten issues, the series is most closely associated with artist Rafael Cortiella, whose gritty, expressive pencils brought the frontier to life. Though brief, it stands as a distinctive entry in the European tradition of the genre, offering a compact but atmospheric take on the lone gunslinger archetype.