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[[Image:Saddle tramp.jpg|thumb|Sample page from issue 18]]
'''''Saddle Tramp''''' was a [[fictional]] [[photographic]] [[comic strip]] published in the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comic book]] ''[[Eagle (comic)|Eagle]]'', from issue 14 (dated [[June 26]] [[1982]]) until issue 26 (dated [[September 18]] [[1982]]). It was written by [[Gerry Finley-Day]] with photography by [[Howard Payton]].

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The strip, a [[Western fiction|western]], tried to push the boundaries of Eagle's early photographic action strips. It featured '''Trampas''', a half-[[American Indian|Indian]] [[bounty hunter]], tracking down wanted criminals near the [[Mexican]] [[border]] in the [[1870s]]. 

Unfortunately, the strip could not achieve a convincing visual effect - seemingly filmed inside a [[theme park]] beside a [[gravel pit]], hence many frames being in [[closeup]]. Amerindians were clearly portrayed by [[schoolboy]]s, and Trampas himself more resembled an overweight [[Ian Botham]] than a half-Mexican who had spent his adult life in the desert. In addition, gunfights proved hard to capture in staged photography. As a result, the strip only ran for 12 issues.

[[Category:Eagle characters]]
[[Category:Fictional Western characters]]