Nuggets Nugent

Few names in Golden Age comics carry quite the frontier charm of Nuggets Nugent, who rode onto the page in 1948's The Westerner Comics #14, brought to life by the creative team of Mort Leav and Leonard Frank for Orbit-Wanted. A product of comics' golden era of Western adventure, Nuggets has proven surprisingly durable — a character born in the late 1940s whose appearances stretch all the way into 2018 through reprint collections like AC Annual and Gwandanaland Comics, a testament to the enduring appeal of the genre. Along the trail, Nuggets keeps colorful company indeed, sharing pages with the likes of Wild Bill Pecos, Calamity Kate, and the wonderfully named Lobo the Wolf Boy. With 32 catalogued appearances and a publishing life spanning seven decades, this is exactly the kind of hidden gem that rewards the dedicated collector willing to dig a little deeper into the rich, sun-baked landscape of Golden Age Westerns.