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| Publication | February 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | Murder in the Hills |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photography) | Inks:? (photography) | Colors:? (photography) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Ritter (photograph) |
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| Comic Story | Not Backwards (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pete has built a radio playing backwards. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pinto Pete |
| Notes | The artwork is very similar to his signed [as Mark Howell] stories "Black Fury and Chuck" in Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #22 and 23. Especially the peculiar highlighted pupils in the eyes in close up, that looks like tiny black horseshoes.
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| Comic Story | The Strange Festival (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | An old prospector once left Juarez half a map leading to a gold mine, and now he has met a prospector who owns the other half of it. They form a partnership, but one of them wants it all. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Juan Juarez (foreman); Hank Millars (crooked prospector) |
| Notes | The movement of the figures, and the small narrow eyes far apart are identical to the credited Pete Riss story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #44 and the quite accurate horses are drawn exactly the same way. |
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| Comic Story | The Tall Tale of the Tiny Tourist! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill is telling a story of a six-inch tall tourist he met at the trading post. |
| Featuring | Buffalo Bull |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Buffalo Bull; Ed (tiny tourist) |
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| Synopsis | How to handle a rifle. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Ritter |
| Notes | Same art as the main story. |
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| Text Story | Fugitive (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Clem sneaks out of town when he hears he has to make a speach after catching six stagerobbers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Clam O'Reilly; Sheriff Simms; Luke (outlaw); Shorty (outlaw) |
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| Comic Story | Well Put |
| Synopsis | Les will not cross the Indian territory. |
| Featuring | Loonie Les |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Loonie Les |
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| Publisher advertisement | Now You Can Get Tex Ritter Western Every Other Month, By Mail |
| Synopsis | Subscription advertisement for Tex Ritter Western. |
| Featuring | Tex Ritter Western |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Murder in the Hills (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | After a goldrobber is caught by Tex, he signs a full confession with the names of the other two robbers. When taken to the jailhouse, the prisoner is killed. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Fury (dog); Deke (villain); Caldwell (villain); Burns (villain) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
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| Comic Story | Operation Laughter (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Doctor Quack |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Doctor Quack; Patient |
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| Comic Story | The Fiery Fur Mystery (7.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | A crook steals furs by hypnotizing them. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Watts (fur trader); Tall Tree; Hypno (crooked hypnotizer) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story, but the inking is quite different here. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Ride With Moviedom's Famous Cowboy... |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale |
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| Advertisement | Cowboy Carbine (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The famous Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine for Christmas. |
| Featuring | Daisy Air Rifles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder |
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| Publisher advertisement | Fawcett Comics Are The Finest (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr.; Captain Marvel; Mary marvel; Bill Battle; Nyoka; Rod Cameron; Monte Hale; Hopalong Cassidy; Rocky Lane; Lash LaRue |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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