Western comics

Western comics
Charlton Comics' Billy the Kid #9 (November 1957). Cover art by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia.
Authors	Tom Gill Fred Guardineer Paul S. Newman Carl Pfeufer Pete Tumlinson
Publishers	Marvel Comics Charlton Comics DC Comics Fawcett Comics Magazine Enterprises
Publications	Kid Colt Outlaw Billy the Kid All-Star Western Two-Gun Kid Rawhide Kid
Subgenres
Weird West

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Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century. The term is generally associated with an American comic books genre published from the late 1940s through the 1950s (though the genre had continuing popularity in Europe, and persists in limited form in American comics today). Western comics of the period typically featured dramatic scripts about cowboys, gunfighters, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, and Native Americans. Accompanying artwork depicted a rural America populated with such iconic images as guns, cowboy hats, vests, horses, saloons, ranches, and deserts, contemporaneous with the setting.