Matt Savage, Trail Boss

Western Comics
Western Comics #1 (Jan./Feb. 1948). Artwork by Howard Sherman
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Bi-monthly
Format	Anthology
Publication date	Jan./Feb. 1948 – Jan./Feb. 1961
No. of issues	85
Main character(s)	Pow Wow Smith Wyoming Kid Nighthawk Cowboy Marshall Rodeo Rick Matt Savage, Trail Boss Vigilante
Creative team
Written by	Don Cameron, Gardner Fox, France Herron
Artist(s)	Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Howard Sherman, Leonard Starr
Editor(s)	Whitney Ellsworth, Julius Schwartz

Western Comics was a Western comic book series published by DC Comics. DC's longest-running Western title, it published 85 issues from 1948 to 1961. Western Comics was an anthology series, featuring such characters as the wandering cowboy the Wyoming Kid, the Native American lawman Pow Wow Smith, the Cowboy Marshall, Jim Sawyer, showman Rodeo Rick, and Matt Savage, Trail Boss. The masked Vigilante Greg Saunders appeared in the first four issues of the title, but was soon replaced by itinerant fix-it man Nighthawk.

Notable contributors included writers Don Cameron, Gardner Fox, and France Herron; and artists Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Howard Sherman, and Leonard Starr.

Whitney Ellsworth edited the book for most of its run, assisted by Julius Schwartz, who took over the editorial reins for the last two years. Originally featuring four or more stories per issue, by issue #70 (July/Aug. 1958), Western Comics reduced the number of stories to three.Western Comics' infrequently appearing letter column was titled "The Hitching Post."