Howdy, y'all!
I've been casually reading comics for a couple years but recently has decided to try and take a more comprehensive, serious look at the medium as a whole. Right now, I'm interested in the Golden Age stories of characters that interest me (DC trinity, Captain Marvel [currently known as Shazam], Namor, Vision, Alan Scott's Green Lantern, Black Canary, Vigilante, Shining Knight, Firebrand, etc), anything Jack Kirby has worked on, and to a limited extent the Western genre-specifically, Marvel's Colt/Rawhide/Two-Gun triad.
While Kid Colt is not archived on this site due to copyright, Kid Colt's original origin story written by Ernie Hart in 1948 has quickly become one of my favorite comics of all time. I'm interested in seeing how earlier stories may have influenced Colt's origin story and how the CCA has altered and changed comics and the storytelling thereof. My perception is that Kid Colt's origin- again, as originally written by Ernie Hart, featuring the specific elements of Colt's short temper and his initial refusal to carry a gun because he knows if he did he would inevitably kill people- is fairly unique for the Western genre and I'm curious to see if that's actually true.
All that said, if I had to pick a favorite comic, Jack Kirby's original Fourth World titles published in the 1970s wins, hands down