The EC comic I focused on this week was Cowboy Western. These comics were very focused on masculinity and violence, the stereotypes of the Wild West. Filled with violence, we see multiple storylines in which each main character is either a criminal, or someone chasing criminals. I assume these comics would appeal primarily to pre-teen boys, as westerns were a popular TV genre at the time, and reinforced their toxic views of what it is to be "masculine". The main characters were all white men, all killed without remorse, and their only real flaws were that they were so masculine, it scared the background characters. That said, they never stayed in one place long, and rarely had a sidekick.