| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | Lawless Furnace Valley |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photography) | Inks:? (photography) | Colors:? (photography) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: White Flash (photograph, horse) |
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| Comic Story | Lawless Furnace Valley Chapter 1-- Ambush (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lucky Marlin is the law in the boom town of Furnace Valley until Ranger Tex arrives. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: White Flash (horse); Lucky Marlin (gangleader); John Rawley (newspaper editor) |
| 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) #21. The splash page has, however, some vague signs of Carl Pfeufer, like pointed gun holsters, dust clouds, double-gun shooting, long boots, and horses. |
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| Synopsis | Some words on horses and of using horse sense. |
| Content | Characters: Tex Ritter |
| Notes | The horse in the upper drawing is very much similar to the horse in Riss' credited story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #44. |
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| Comic Story | Small Obstacle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Loone thinks can tell a phone from a submarine. |
| Featuring | Loonie Les |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Loonie Les; Huck |
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| Comic Story | Lawless Furnace Valley Chapter II...Death's Grip (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tex is bushwacked by Lucky's killers, but he beats them off and they shoot one of their own. Then they hire a big wrestler to take on Tex. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: White Flash (horse); Lucky Marlin (gangleader); John Rawley (newspaper editor); Bone Crusher (wrestler) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first part of story. |
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| Comic Story | Talented Retort (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jimmy has dancing talent. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pinto Pete; Jimmy Foote |
| Notes | The artwork is very similar to Neville's 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 | Experimenter Deluxe (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Cal has been experimenting with breeding snakes and parrots. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Cowboy Cal |
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| Text Story | Incident by the Creek (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cattle and poisonous water. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sheriff Clint Edwards; Jed Slocum (rancher); Zeke Dawson (handyman); Alamo Bates |
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| Comic Story | Lawless Furnace Valley Chapter III-Showdown (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A wrestling and boxing match between Tex and Crusher, and a showdown with the gang of robbers |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: White Flash (horse); Lucky Marlin (gangleader); John Rawley (newspaper editor); Bone Crusher (wrestler) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first chapter. |
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| Synopsis | Selling lemonade and giving away bubble gum. |
| Content | Characters: Pud |
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| Synopsis | Stewart leads the cow across the stage in the first act. |
| Featuring | Stage Struck Stewart |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Stewart |
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