Patricia Layne

Patricia Layne is a Golden Age Western heroine who rode into the pages of Orbit-Wanted's The Westerner Comics in 1950, sharing the frontier with colorful characters like Calamity Kate and Wild Bill Pecos in classic range adventures illustrated by Mort Lawrence.

Riding onto the range in 1950 courtesy of artist Mort Lawrence, Patricia Layne is a Golden Age Western heroine who made her debut in the pages of The Westerner Comics from Orbit-Wanted — a publisher that knew how to deliver frontier adventure with real grit. She shares her world with a colorful cast including Calamity Kate, Wild Bill Pecos, and the ominously named Widowmaker, which tells you the company in these stories is as lively as the genre gets. Turning up across titles like Best of the West and the wonderfully titled Bizarre Thrills, her presence in the catalog stretches an impressive five decades, a quiet testament to the lasting appeal of a well-drawn Western character. With only eleven recorded appearances she may be a rarer find, but for collectors with a love of Golden Age Westerns and the thrill of the hunt, Patricia Layne is exactly the kind of discovery worth celebrating.