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Western comic books came into their own in 1948 and soon publishers were scrambling for material. Movie matinee Western stars were an obvious choice for four color heroes and by the early 1950's such actors as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Monte Hale, Tom Mix, Rocky Lane, Charles Starrett and Tim Holt all had their own titles. Dell Comics and Fawcett Publications had an extensive line-up of movie star Westerns. Atlas (Marvel) and DC Comics relied mainly on their own original Western characters. Magazine Enterprises had a good mix of both. By 1957, most Western comics had faded into the sunset with DC's titles running into 1961. Marvel rebounded in the early 1960's and kept Westerns in print (although mostly as reprints) through out the 1970's. Charlton Comics was the last publisher of Westerns holding on until the mids-80's.
The more successful of the early 40's western comic books were those based on cowboy characters and/or actors from other media, such as Roy Rogers. The real explosion in westerns came in 1948 and lasted through 1954, the end of the Golden Age. Besides those derived from other media, there were also original-to-comic-books creations such as Marvel's Two-Gun Kid and Kid Colt Outlaw. A third kind of western were those based on real-life Old-West personalities, such as Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, and Annie Oakley.
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