texaskid

CREATOR

Name: Horwitz Publications Inc. Pty Ltd. * (Australian comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1920 by the couple Israel and Ruth Horwitz, who later included their children in heading the company. The main production was trade journals, pulp novels, and sports magazines**. Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Horwitz in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: * The corporation was first named Associated General Publications Pty Ltd, and later Transport Publishing Co.
** From 1950 to 1965 comic books in diverse genres were added.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1952. Stopped in 1954 after 25 issues.

The series' starring character is an unruly youth born Maclaine, but he is better known by his nickname Texas Kid. As a gunfighter in the Old West he moves in and out of the law thus making him difficult to categorize.