Star Ranger and Western Picture Stories 3 both debuted from the publisher in late 1936, cover-dated Feb.
Whitman Comics Crackajack Funnies ran regular Western features (including Tom Mix stories) beginning with issue 1 in June 1938. Garrett Price s White Boy (later changed to Skull Valley ) was another syndicated strip from the 1930s.ĭell Comics The Funnies published a run of short adaptations of B-movie Westerns starting in vol. Starting in the 1930s, Red Ryder, Little Joe, and King of the Royal Mounted were syndicated in hundreds of newspapers across the United States. Harry ONeill s Young Buffalo Bill (later changed to Buckaroo Bill and then, finally, Broncho Bill ), distributed by United Feature Syndicate beginning in 1928, was about a group called The Boy Rangers, and was a pioneering example of the form.
Western comics of the period typically featured dramatic scripts about cowboys, gunfighters, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, and Native Americans.Īccompanying artwork depicted a rural America populated with such iconic images as guns, cowboy hats, vests, horses, saloons, ranches, and deserts, contemporaneous with the setting. 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).
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