Tex Mason

Tex Mason is a Golden Age cowboy hero who rode the range in the pages of Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders, sharing adventures in the classic Saturday-matinee Western tradition alongside characters like the Lemonade Kid.

Riding out of the Golden Age in 1950, Tex Mason made his debut in Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders #1, brought to life by the talented Bob Powell for Magazine Enterprises. He's a fixture of that sun-baked, Saturday-matinee world of early Western comics, sharing the range with colorful company like the Lemonade Kid across a handful of memorable issues. What's remarkable is that this cowboy's footprint stretches across an impressive 67 years of comics history — from a 1950 debut all the way to 2017 — turning up in retrospective collections that celebrate the best of the era. For fans of classic Western comics and Golden Age rarities, Tex Mason is exactly the kind of hidden gem worth tracking down.