Jonah Hex, paperback original Western series of the 1970's that continued into the 1990's and beyond

[Enda80]

With the new Jonah Hex series, it occurred to me that the 1970's saw
many numbered paperback original adventure or thriller series debut.
Oddly enough, while most of these that took place in then contemporary
times rarely lasted into the 1980's or 1990's, in fact some of the
Western series from Jove lasted well into the 1990's at least (Lone
Star, Longarm, Trailsman, etc.)

[james]

Slocum and Longarm (started in the 70s) and The Trailsman and The Gunsmith
(started in the 80s) are still being published, and are all well over 300
books each.

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[Enda80]

I find it quite interesting that while the numbered paperback original
series that started in the 1970's or 1980's (with obvious exceptions
such as Remo Williams) that took place in contemporary times (or at
least then contemporary times) rarely continued into the 1990's (the
ending of such series as the Butcher, the Penetrator, etc.) yet the
Western series continued on into later decades, despite the
evaporation of the genre in other media such as TV and film.

[Dave]

Long term, a good western manuscript has the longest legs and greatest
cashcow potential.

The timelessness means they don't go out of date. Zane Grey was
writing best-sellers in the 1920s, and he's still on the paperback
racks. Who else from that era is? Only other western authors.

Detectives go out of date. Mike Shayne, Perry Mason, and Ellery Queen
are all unreprintable today; prisoners of the past. We Americans make
an exception for Agatha Christie, with her foreign world of trains,
tea, and telegrams.

Travis McGee probably survived as long as he did/has because he was an
iconclast, living and operating outside of normal society.

dave