Issue | V2#1 |
Published | January 1939 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52(?) |
Editing | Lloyd Jacquet |
Notes | editor listed in Statement of Ownership. |
Genre | western |
Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
Characters | Duddy Heffer; Fud Heffer |
Synopsis | The Heffer Family has visitors from the Big City who are looking to exploit them by buying their land dirt cheap. The consummate with a toast of Moonshine, but the City folk can't hold their liquor. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
Characters | Capt. L.H. McNelly; John Wesley Harding; Sam Houston |
Synopsis | Bios of historic Texas Rangers and facts about the Rio Grande and the Mavericks that populated the early Texas frontier territory. |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Terry Gilkison (signed) |
Pencils | Terry Gilkison (signed) |
Inks | Terry Gilkison (signed) |
Characters | Fabricatin' Phil (a compulsive liar) |
Synopsis | Phil tells tall tales of his exploits. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed) |
Pencils | Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed) |
Inks | Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed) |
Characters | Tom Brent (Sheriff) |
Synopsis | Ed Casey runs the Casey Bunch, a hardened group of train robbers whom the law can't seem to stop. Tom Brent is the new sheriff, and he will have to take the Casey Bunch down in order to keep his job. |
Genre | western |
Script | Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed) |
Pencils | Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed) |
Inks | Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed) |
Characters | One Buck; Two Bits |
Synopsis | One Buck applies for a job at the Post Office as delivery man on the Reservation. Includes a word puzzle hosted by Two Bits. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Martin Filchock (signed) |
Pencils | Martin Filchock (signed) |
Inks | Martin Filchock (signed) |
Synopsis | A rancher captures a fabulous black stallion, but his daughter sets it free in the night. Furious, the rancher goes to lynch a Mexican ranch hand whom he suspects stole the horse. Bigmoose, a native American, stops the lynching just in time, having read the clues about what really happened. |
Genre | western |
Script | Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed) |
Pencils | Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed) |
Inks | Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed) |
Characters | Montany Filchock |
Synopsis | Filchock features himself as Montany in a feature to help aspiring artist draw a horse. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed) |
Pencils | Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed) |
Inks | Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed) |
Genre | western |
Script | Pat Allen [as Pat "Tex" Allen] (signed) |
Pencils | Pat Allen [as P.A.] (signed) |
Inks | Pat Allen [as P.A.] (signed) |
Notes | text with spot illustration. |
Characters | Windy Parks |
Synopsis | Windy spins a story about an adventure in California when a cut-throat gang of prospectors tried to separate Windy from his gold, and only the padre at the local mission can save him from hanging. |
Genre | western |
Script | Victor J. Dowling (signed) |
Pencils | Victor J. Dowling (signed) |
Inks | Victor J. Dowling (signed) |
Characters | Wild Bill Hickock |
Script | Ray Burley |
Pencils | Ray Burley |
Inks | Ray Burley |
Characters | The Ermine |
Synopsis | The Ermine aides the Thorne Family when redskins raid them and kidnap their daughter. |
Genre | western |
Script | George Filchock |
Pencils | George Filchock |
Inks | George Filchock |
Synopsis | Joe is a picketing union employee, taunting his employers with the messages on his placards. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Fred Schwab ? |
Pencils | Fred Schwab ? |
Inks | Fred Schwab ? |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Lists Joseph J. Hardie as publisher, Lloyd Jacquet as editor, Raymond J. Kelly as Business Manager. Under ownership, it lists Centaur Publications, Inc., Harie Publications Inc. (I believe that this may be a typo, meant to be Hardie Publications Inc.), and Raymond J. Kelly. |
Characters | Buck Bush; Calaboose Kid |
Synopsis | Sheriff Buck Bush is the toughest guy around, and when he is challenged to a duel by the Calaboose Kid, the excitement in the town swells. When the duel takes place, the two recognize each others as brother, and cancel the duel, leaving the townspeople humming mad. |
Genre | western |
Script | Joe E. Buresch (signed) |
Pencils | Joe E. Buresch (signed) |
Inks | Joe E. Buresch (signed) |