The Big Country is a comic book adaptation and movie tie-in of the western novel The Big Country by Donald Hamilton.
Written by long-time Western comics writer Paul S. Newman, and drawn by Bob Correa, The Big Country was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post as "Ambush at Blanco Canyon" on February 2, 9, 16 and 23, 1957.
[1][2] The Big Country was published in hardcover in the UK in 1958 by Allan Wingate.
Maryland sea captain James McKay goes west to Texas, to claim his bride, and steps into a violent feud over land.
The movie version stars Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker and Burl Ives.