| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August-October 1959 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Jace Peason's Tales of the Texas Rangers |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Western-frontier | Characters: Jace Pearson (photo of Willard Parker) |
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| Synopsis | Preview of first story. |
| Featuring | Jace Pearson's Tales of the Texas Rangers |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Western-frontier | Characters: Jace Pearson (photo of Willard Parker) |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos and typeset text. |
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| Comic Story | Hurricane (20 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pearson and Morgan are sent to the Gulf area to investigate the Carlson gang. On the way they are to stop at Stardale to pick up Morgan's nephew Ricky Brian. Before the two can get to Stardale, a hurricane strikes. After taking refuge until the hurricane passes, the Rangers continue to Stardale, finding it hard hit by the hurricane. The Carlson gang happens by and decides this would be a good time to rob the bank. The Rangers have to track the gang, despite not having found Morgan's nephew among the survivors. |
| Featuring | Jace Pearson's Tales of the Texas Rangers |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Western-frontier | Characters: Jace Pearson; Clay Morgan |
| Notes | Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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| Text Story | The Swindle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Doubleout Sam fast-talks prospector Beanpole Billy into investing in gold-mine stock. When the prospector insists on seeing the mine, Sam and his men take him across the desert to the hills, show him a mine shaft, then abandon him without food or water. The tough old prospector makes it back to town to get to the sheriff's office to file charges. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Beanpole Billy; Doubleout Sam (villain) |
| Notes | Text story with 1/4 page illustration.
Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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| Comic Story | Pattillo Higgins (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of Pattillo "Bud" Higgins, who was the catalyst for the drilling of the first oil well in Beaumont, Texas, in 1901. It was a gusher that sparked the establishment of the Texas oil industry. |
| Featuring | Famous Texans |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Pattillo Higgins |
| Notes | Panels with text underneath.
Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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| Comic Story | Bandit Bait (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Three outlaws ambush Pearson and Morgan and wound Morgan. After tending to Morgan, Pearson tracks the outlaws to their camp and captures them. |
| Featuring | Jace Pearson's Tales of the Texas Rangers |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jace Pearson; Clay Morgan |
| Notes | Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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| Comic Story | Los Diablos Tejanos... the Eyes and Ears of the Army (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the history of the Texas Rangers during the time of Texas's annexation to the United States. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents".
Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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| Comic Story | Texas Trail North (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the first cattle drive through Texas, headed by Oliver Loving, who blazed what would become the "Sedalia Trail." |
| Featuring | Jace Pearson's Tales of the Texas Rangers |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Jace Pearson (cameo); Oliver Loving |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Story is "narrated" by Jace Pearson.
Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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| Comic Story | The Legend of Ranger Lake (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Texas Rangers' efforts in 1880 to find the secret water holes of Apache Indian raiders along the Texas-New Mexico border. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Back cover, color. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Art identification by Steinar Ådland (2010.11.27). |
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