Space Western Comics

Genres: Western
Publisher: Charlton

Vol 1: Sep/Oct 1952 – August 1953
There are a lot of cross-genre series in the long and diverse history of comic books. One of the more notorious is DC Comics’ War that Time Forgot, which mixed World War II action with dinosaurs. Funny animals were combined with superheroes so often — Marvel’s Super Rabbit, Fox’s Cosmo Cat, L.B. Cole’s Wiggles the Wonderworm etc. — that they almost form a genre of their own. During the 1950s and early ’60s, it was a common practice to create a new series by putting the word “space” in front of something unrelated, as in Avon’s Space Detective, Gold Key’s Space Family Robinson, and of course this one — Charlton’s Space Western…

Chapter List:

Space Western Comics #45
Space Western Comics #44
Space Western Comics #43
Space Western Comics #42
Space Western Comics #40