McAvennie, Michael; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). «1970s». DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 151. ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. «The Western comic had all but ridden off into the sunset, until the arrival of Jonah Hex gave the genre a new face ... A tale by John Albano and drawn by Tony DeZuniga immediately presented the bounty hunter as a cold-blooded killer.»