Western media is defined by the importance it places on individual heroes. Cowboys were huge in the Golden Age of comics, and their stories paved the way for the superheroes of today. Lone rangers may have traded their spurs and six-irons for capes and cowls, but the rugged individualism of the Wild West is alive and well in lawless towns like Gotham and Central City.
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