The Little Sheriff

The Little Sheriff was a pint-sized young lawman who appeared in Ziff-Davis's early-1950s Western anthology alongside Kid Cowboy, Red Feather, and Stumpy Bunyan, wielding a badge and frontier grit in the sun-baked world of Golden Age Western comics.

Riding into the Golden Age of comics with a badge and plenty of grit, The Little Sheriff made their debut in Kid Cowboy #5 in 1951, brought to life by artist Bob Brown for Ziff-Davis. This pint-sized lawman carved out a niche in the sun-baked world of early-fifties Western comics, sharing the range with a colorful cast that includes Kid Cowboy, Red Feather, and the wonderfully named Stumpy Bunyan. A rare find with only a handful of catalog appearances across a short 1951–1953 run, The Little Sheriff is exactly the kind of overlooked gem that makes digging through Golden Age back issues such a rewarding adventure.