But we’re really getting ahead of ourselves - first, a little bit about how Thompson came to be inventing card games. The story would come back to him in what he refers to as “his old age” (although photographic evidence suggests he’s not that old) as the theme for a social deduction card game.

And me and John R used to lay in our beds reading comic books all the time and I totally remember reading Billy the Kid, you know? Just one of the Western heroes…

Me and my brother, John - you know, “John R” in Cape Breton - we grew up…in the low-rentals close to the ocean in New Waterford and somebody one year gave us bags and bags and bags of comic books. As he told me in an phone interview from his home in Victoria, BC on Monday: Because it was through comic books that Caper Games and Books founder Randall Thompson first discovered the Kid. The Kid has been the subject of over 50 movies, many books and, most significantly for our purposes, comic books. Bonney” and became known as “Billy the Kid” or simply “The Kid.” That same year, he adopted the alias “William H. He became handy with a Winchester rifle and a Colt revolver, and in August 1877 he killed his first man during a dispute in an Arizona saloon. …fled town and embarked on a career as a roving ranch hand, gambler and gang member. Afterward, writes Evan Andrews in “ 9 Things You May Not Know About Billy the Kid,” he: He was arrested but escaped punishment by climbing up a chimney in the jailhouse. He made his debut as an outlaw in 1875, stealing clothing from a Chinese laundry.

(Ben Wittick 1845–1903, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons)īilly the Kid was born Henry McCarty in New York in 1859. Cartridge loading gate on Winchester Model 1873 lever action rifle is on the right side of the receiver. Image mirrored on vertical axis to correct widely-seen flopped tintype. Portrait of American gunman Billy the Kid (1859–1881).

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