DC Comics' Scalphunter was launched in WEIRD WESTERN TALES #39 (1977). The protagonist was a White Indian, Brian Savage, abducted by Kiowas as a child and raised as one of them, though as the page below clarifies, the Kiowas of the story have their own "caste system" and don't allow Scalphunter to earn "warrior feathers." In addition to sustaining his own feature the character occasionally interacted with both other western heroes and with superheroes via time travel.
The name of Brian's father, Matt Savage, may have been a call-out, subconscious or otherwise, to a 1959 DC feature, "Matt Savage, Trail Boss," though nothing in the story explicitly links the two characters.
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