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Tex Ritter 15
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | February 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly | Editing: C. W. Woods |
| Cover | Murder in the Hills |
| Featuring | Tex Ritter |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo); Pete Riss | Inks:? (photo); Pete Riss | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Tex Ritter |
| Comic Story | Not Backwards (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pete has built a radio playing backwards. |
| Featuring | Pinto Pete |
| Credits | Pencils: Dennis Neville | Inks: Dennis Neville |
| Content | Characters: Pinto Pete |
| Notes | Neville is credited on Pinto Pete for 1942-43 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this is 1953, but the artwork is very similar to his signed [as Mark Howell] stories "Black Fury and Chuck" in Fantastic Comics #22 and 23. Especially the peculiar highlighted pupils in the eyes in close up, that looks like tiny black horseshoes. |
| 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 now form a partnership, but one of them wants it all. |
| Featuring | Tex Ritter |
| Credits | Pencils: Pete Riss | Inks: Pete Riss |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Juan Juarez (foreman); Hank Millars (crooked prospector) |
| Notes | Pete Riss is credited on several titles for Fawcett by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but not on Tex Ritter. 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" #44, ACG, and the quite accurate horses are drawn exactely the same way. |
| 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: Western; Humor | Characters: Buffalo Bull; Ed (tiny tourist) |
| Letters Page | "Howdy Folks" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | How to handle a rifle possibly told by Tex, as it is signed by him |
| Featuring | Riding The Range With Tex Ritter |
| Credits | Script: Tex Ritter (signed)? | Pencils: Pete Riss | Inks: Pete Riss |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Tex Ritter |
| Notes | Same art as the main story. |
| 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 | Script: Clement Good (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Clam O'Reilly; Sheriff Simms; Luke (outlaw); Shorty (outlaw) |
| Comic Story | Well Put |
| Synopsis | Les will not cross the Indian territory. |
| Featuring | Loonie Les |
| Content | Genre: Western; Gags | Characters: Loonie Les |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Featuring | Tex Ritter |
| Credits | Pencils: Pete Riss | Inks: Pete Riss |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Fury (dog); VILLAINS: Deke; Caldwell; Burns |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
| Comic Story | Operation Laughter (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Doctor Quack |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Doctor Quack; Patient |
| Comic Story | The Fiery Fur Mystery (7.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | A crook steals furs by hypnotizing them. |
| Featuring | Tex Ritter |
| Credits | Pencils: Pete Riss |
| Content | Genre: Western | 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. |
| Publisher advertisement | Ride With Moviedom's Famous Cowboy... |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Monte Hale |
| Advertisement | Cowboy Carbine (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The famous Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine for Christmas. |
| Featuring | Daisy Air Rifles |
| Credits | Pencils: Fred Harman (signed) | Inks: Fred Harman (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder |
| 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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