(Amazing Mystery Funnies v3 003, 1940)
Just a cheeky super-hero for you today: the Headless Horseman! The Headless Horseman is an utterly standard western hero except for their lack of a head. They made maybe two appearances in Centaur comics before fading into the mists of history. A shame, because I really like the simple spin a fake supernatural Western hero gives things - I can't think of too many of them other than the various Ghost Riders. The cowboy ones, not the motorcycle ones.
You may have noticed a cheeky gender neutral pronoun or two up above and that's because the Headless Horseman... is actually a Head-Having Horsewoman! Her name is Betty and in addition to having no assigned last name she is pretty scantly characterized outside of her vigilantism - she was educated Back East, she runs a saloon along with her... mother? and is friends with the doofus sheriff's deputy, who functions as her source of breaking crime information.
Utterly charming concept. BRING her BACK immediately, someone.
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