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| Publication | October-November 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | also features characters from Jess Phoolin |
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| Featuring | Cowboy Jake |
| Credits | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | also features characters from Jess Phoolin |
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| Foreword/Afterword | A Bit Off the Trail (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A promo for Centaur's sister titles, Star Comics, Funny Pages, and Funny Picture Stories. |
| Featuring | The Roundup |
| Credits | Script: Harry Chesler | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Article with spot illustration. |
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| Contents | Table of Contents (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | lists the editor credits, features names, and the indicia. Page also features the union 'bug'. |
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| Comic Story | Chief White Wolf (1 page) |
| Credits | Script: Richard Speed | Pencils: Richard Speed | Inks: Richard Speed |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Western-frontier | Characters: Chief White Wolf; Buffalo Bill Cody |
| Notes | credit by Jerry Bails |
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| Synopsis | Joe is put to work as the chef when the regular cook goes on strike, but isn't really suited for the job. |
| Featuring | Tenderfoot Joe |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab (signed) | Pencils: Fred Schwab (signed) | Inks: Fred Schwab (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Tenderfoot Joe |
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| Synopsis | Mary has rats in her cabin. |
| Featuring | Tenderfoot Mary |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Tenderfoot Mary |
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| Comic Story | The Little Papoose (1 page) |
| Synopsis | a poem to a Native American baby |
| Credits | Script: Fred Guardineer | Pencils: Fred Guardineer | Inks: Fred Guardineer |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Synopsis | The story of how Jake rid the town of the tough guy with his wits. |
| Featuring | Cowboy Jake |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Biro | Inks: Charles Biro |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cowboy Jake |
| Notes | Creator credit confirmed by Ken Quattro (23 June 2019) |
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| Synopsis | Lou spins a tale about how smart his dog was. |
| Featuring | Lyin' Lou |
| Credits | Script: Fred Guardineer | Pencils: Fred Guardineer | Inks: Fred Guardineer |
| Content | Characters: Lyin' Lou |
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| Synopsis | Junior signs up for the rodeo, despite the taunts about his age, throws the bull, rescues the damsel in distress...all before his Mom wakes him for school. |
| Featuring | Wild West Junior |
| Credits | Script: Charles Biro | Pencils: Charles Biro | Inks: Charles Biro |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | credit from Jerry Bails |
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| Synopsis | Killer McGee can calmly take being called a menace and thief, but won't abide being accused of eating onions. |
| Featuring | Killer McGee |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Killer McGee |
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| Comic Story | John Dillinger (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the life and death of infamous outlaw John Dillinger. |
| Credits | Script: Richard Speed | Pencils: Richard Speed | Inks: Richard Speed |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Crime | Characters: John Dillinger |
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| Comic Story | Dynamite Trail (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A ranger investigates strange accidents at a mining operation and finds a disgruntled employee. |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Frollo? | Inks: Frank Frollo? |
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| Synopsis | A couple New York City mob members come to the Dude ranch to lay low, but Ace and Deuce sniff them out. |
| Featuring | Ace and Deuce |
| Credits | Script: W. M. Allison | Pencils: W. M. Allison | Inks: W. M. Allison |
| Content | Characters: Ace; Deuce |
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| Text Story | Killer's Horse (7 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Tom Curry (credited) | Pencils: Frank Frollo (signed) | Inks: Frank Frollo (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | text story with spot illustrations |
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| Illustration | One Less Horse-Thief! (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) | Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | center-spread art piece of the lynching of a horse-thief. |
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| Featuring | Bad Medicine |
| Credits | Script: Fred Guardineer (signed) [as F. B. G.] | Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) [as F. B. G.] | Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) [as F. B. G.] |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Synopsis | Grizzly gets challenged to a horse race. |
| Featuring | Grizzly Dunn |
| Credits | Script: Rafael Astarita (signed) | Pencils: Rafael Astarita (signed) | Inks: Rafael Astarita (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Grizzly Dunn |
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| Comic Story | Errand of Mercy (6 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Norman Daniels |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Text Article | Big Trees in America (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Lore about the history of trees in America, and of giant pre-historic petrified tree remains in Arizona. |
| Credits | Script: Richard Speed | Pencils: Richard Speed | Inks: Richard Speed |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Words Without Music (1 page) |
| Synopsis | a lyrical poem about migrant cowboys looking for work. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Todmoro] | Pencils:? [as Todmoro] | Inks:? [as Todmoro] |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Null; Void |
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| Featuring | Null and Void |
| Credits | Script: Lit-Win? [as Todmoro] (signed) | Pencils: Lit-Win? [as Todmoro] (signed) | Inks: Lit-Win? [as Todmoro] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Null; Void |
| Notes | Lit-Win creator credit possibility from Ken Quattro (23 June 2019). |
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| Featuring | Homeless Oscar |
| Credits | Script: Dick Ryan | Pencils: Dick Ryan | Inks: Dick Ryan |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Homeless Oscar (a skunk) |
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| Synopsis | Bob Horn lives on his Dad's ranch, which has a valuable oil well just across the fence on his neighbor's property. Bob discovers by accident that the neighbor moved the fence, and that the well is really his father's property. |
| Featuring | Death's Head Range |
| Credits | Script: Irving Frisch | Pencils: Rafael Astarita | Inks: Rafael Astarita |
| Content | Characters: Bob Horn |
| Notes | credits by Jerry Bails |
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| Comic Story | Marked Bullets (6 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Will Harr (credited) | Pencils: Rafael Astarita? | Inks: Rafael Astarita? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Script credit from Nigel Cantwell via the GCD Error List (21 August 2006). Bails lists Will Harr as writer only. |
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| Cartoon | "I hope no calls come in..." |
| Featuring | Jest A Laugh |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Jess Phoolin |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jess Phoolin |
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| Featuring | Jest the Type |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab? | Pencils: Fred Schwab? | Inks: Fred Schwab? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Lonesome Luke |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lonesome Luke |
| Notes | Luke advertises for tough guys for his ranch and a bunch of guys with broken noses show up to apply. Luke tells them to go home and send the guy who broke their noses. |
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