Fall 1978: Fleisher and Russ Heath’s unbelievably insane story in the Jonah Hex Spectacular (technically DC Special Series #16) reveals Hex’s final fate: he’s killed with a shotgun while playing cards in 1904 (at the age of 65), and his body is stuffed, mounted and displayed in a traveling Wild West show.
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April 1984: There’s nothing particularly special about Jonah Hex #83 (by Fleisher and DeZuniga). I just love this cover.
September 1985: Following Jonah Hex #92, the series is relaunched as Hex, by Fleisher and (initially) artist Mark Texeira, in which Jonah is transported to the year 2050 and becomes a post-apocalyptic warrior. Why, yes, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was very popular that year, why do you ask? The series lasts 18 issues, ending in early 1987; in the final issue, the middle-aged future Jonah encounters his own older body’s stuffed corpse. There’s a sort of postscript in Secret Origins #21 later that year, indicating that Hex eventually returned to his own time, and that’s the last anyone hears of Jonah for a few years.