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New York : Dell Comics, 1951-1958. Based on a character in an O. Henry short story, the Cisco Kid took on a life of his own in radio, film, TV, and comic books. Set in the “Old West,” the series featured gunfights, damsels in distress, and high adventure—essentially compiling a popular historiography of the West in the U.S. imagination and a paradigm for the evolution of the Western genre. The series was also notable for its Latino protagonist, an anomaly during the post-war period of Anglo-American hegemony. This run is representative of classic Cisco Kid.