Bio: Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix ; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.
It was after his death however that his career as a comic book, newspaper comic strip and radio star took off, remaining so popular that a radio program called the Tom Mix Show ran for 10 years after his death, he was also featured in a number of comics, first with Fawcett comics, where a character based on his appearance was use in the long running Tom Mix Western, with additional appearances in the pages of Master Comics and Captain Marvel Jr. Comics.