13 Facts About Western comics

Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier and typically set during the late nineteenth century.

Western comics first appeared in syndicated newspaper strips in the late 1920s.

Western comics became popular in the years immediately following World War II, when superheroes went out of style.

Western comics soon established itself as the most prolific publisher of Western comics with other notable long-running titles, including Rawhide Kid, Two-Gun Kid, and Wild Western.

Gaylord DuBois excelled in writing Western comics featuring realistic animals: he wrote the entire run of The Lone Ranger's Famous Horse Hi-Yo Silver, the entire run of National Velvet under both the Dell and Gold Key imprints, and many other animal stories for a number of publishers.

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Weird Western comics Tales defined a new multi-genre form: "Weird West, " a combination of the Western comics with another literary genre, usually horror, occult, or fantasy.

Weird Western comics Tales survived until 1980, and Jonah Hex until 1985.

However, more traditional Western comics are found throughout this period, from Jonah Hex to Loveless.

Tex is among the most popular characters in Italian Western comics, and has been translated into numerous languages, including Portuguese, Finnish, Norwegian, Tamil, Turkish, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and Hebrew.

Lucky Luke Western comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many European languages, and some African and Asian languages.

Tintin magazine featured Western-themed comics starting in 1947 with Le Rallic's various series, and later, between 1955 and 1980 the humor-based Chick Bill by Greg and Tibet.

Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud's Blueberry is a Western comics series published beginning in 1963 and continuing until 2005.

Western comics were popular in Japan in the early 1950s, both translations of American titles like Straight Arrow, the Durango Kid, and Tim Holt; and original Japanese manga.