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| really great western oriented anthology book,awesome art work some of it similer to MAD Comics,Jack Cole is one of the all time greats not really politicly correct,stereotypes abound in these stories,I never knew wild Bill Hickock murdered like 38 people,overall a book well worth reading |
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| Publication | January 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Synopsis | The Heffer Family has visitors from the Big City who are looking to exploit them by buying their land dirt cheap. The consummate with a toast of Moonshine, but the City folk can't hold their liquor. |
| Credits | Job #: 68 |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Duddy Heffer; Fud Heffer |
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| Synopsis | Bios of historic Texas Rangers and facts about the Rio Grande and the Mavericks that populated the early Texas frontier territory. |
| Featuring | Rangeography! |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Capt. L.H. McNelly; John Wesley Harding; Sam Houston |
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| Synopsis | Phil tells tall tales of his exploits. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fabricatin' Phil (a compulsive liar) |
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| Comic Story | The Wild Casey Bunch Tangles with a Kid Sheriff (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ed Casey runs the Casey Bunch, a hardened group of train robbers whom the law can't seem to stop. Tom Brent is the new sheriff, and he will have to take the Casey Bunch down in order to keep his job. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tom Brent (Sheriff) |
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| Synopsis | One Buck applies for a job at the Post Office as delivery man on the Reservation. Includes a word puzzle hosted by Two Bits. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: One Buck; Two Bits |
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| Comic Story | Footprints in the Dust (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A rancher captures a fabulous black stallion, but his daughter sets it free in the night. Furious, the rancher goes to lynch a Mexican ranch hand whom he suspects stole the horse. Bigmoose, a native American, stops the lynching just in time, having read the clues about what really happened. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | Comic Cowboys featuring Horsefeathers (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Filchock features himself as Montany in a feature to help aspiring artist draw a horse. |
| Featuring | How to Draw |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Montany Filchock |
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| Text Story | The Secret of the White Sands (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | text with spot illustration. |
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| Comic Story | Windy Parks at the Desert Mission (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Windy spins a story about an adventure in California when a cut-throat gang of prospectors tried to separate Windy from his gold, and only the padre at the local mission can save him from hanging. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Windy Parks |
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| Comic Story | Wild Bill Hickock (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Western-frontier | Characters: Wild Bill Hickock |
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| Comic Story | Episode Two: The Redmen's Despair (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ermine aides the Thorne Family when redskins raid them and kidnap their daughter. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Ermine |
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| Comic Story | Do Not Disturb |
| Synopsis | Joe is a picketing union employee, taunting his employers with the messages on his placards. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Lists Joseph J. Hardie as publisher, Lloyd Jacquet as editor, Raymond J. Kelly as Business Manager. Under ownership, it lists Centaur Publications, Inc., Harie Publications Inc. (I believe that this may be a typo, meant to be Hardie Publications Inc.), and Raymond J. Kelly. |
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| Comic Story | Buck Bush Has a Showdown (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sheriff Buck Bush is the toughest guy around, and when he is challenged to a duel by the Calaboose Kid, the excitement in the town swells. When the duel takes place, the two recognize each others as brother, and cancel the duel, leaving the townspeople humming mad. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buck Bush; Calaboose Kid |
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