a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Apparently "gal sheriff" Kitty Carson appeared just once in WESTERN FRONTIER #3, with art attributed to one Richard Case. There had been an earlier Kitty Carson who'd appeared maybe a dozen times in Harvey Comics' KERRY DRAKE comic but the two are unrelated except for the "Kit Carson" pun. If KITTY had managed to become a series apparently a regular feature would've been the "quarreling lovers" trope seen here.
KIT WEST had a feature in Avon's COW PUNCHER COMICS and then appeared in various other Avon comics, such as this fake story of her origins in the one-shot WHITE CHIEF OF THE PAWNEE INDIANS.
These three are from COW PUNCHER.
TV's MY LITTLE MARGIE was more violent than any other fifties sitcom. But though occasionally precocious daughter Margie occasionally punched someone, or hit someone with a blunt object, the show didn't go to the lengths of the comic book.
