"The Bravados," from the short-lived Skywald Comics, enjoyed just four adventures, each ten pages long. The premise: six footloose heroes of the Old West team up against an evil Mexican bandit who caused them harm in one way or another. In the case of Charade, he was an Apache warrior who had his tongue cut out by the evil bandido. This affliction kept down his dialogue, and the scripts were so wedded to this idea of the "silent red man" that he never even got any of the "thought bubbles" given the other White and Black characters. To be sure, none of them were deep characters either, for all the stories were just fast-paced adventures. And, believe it or not, it was only upon visiting this comic again that I realized Charade must have been named for a certain game in which one has to remain silent throughout.
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