Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Range Rider (photo of Jock Mahoney)
Notes
Photo is retouched to enhance color and a background has been added.
Text Article
The Stagecoach (1 page)
Synopsis
Facts about the Overland Stage Line, which ran from St. Louis to San Francisco from the 1850s to the 1870s.
Content
Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations plus hand-lettered text. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
Range Rider and the Monster of the Desert (18 pages)
Synopsis
Dick West's uncle Jed Perdue leaves him tied to a tree in the mountains to die of exposure. With Dick's death, Perdue would inherit a valuable ranch. Range Rider rescues him, then goes for help a few miles away where he meets Professor Hornbone. The professor is assembling dinosaur skeletons he is scavenging from tar pits on Dick's ranch. Range Rider and Dick have a showdown with Perdue and two henchmen in the building housing the assembled skeletons.
Featuring
Range Rider
Content
Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Range Rider; Dick West; Sage (dog); Rawhide (horse)
Notes
Originally credited to Sparky Moore by Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007), but thanks to error report # 7376, this artist is identified as Schoenke. He drew Laredo Crockett, and samples from that series confirms it without doubt. Compare the identical horses and faces. He also had some stories in Annie Oakley & Tagg #4 and 8, and several in Gene Autry #69, 75, 76, 81. And some in Range Rider #2 and 4.
Comic Story
Range Rider and the Killer of Rio Hondo (16 pages)
Synopsis
While out riding, Range Rider and Dick West come across a burning wagon. Range Rider rescues a man from the wagon, but he has been shot and dies soon after telling the pair to search for "El Asesino". Range Rider and Dick trail the bandits to their hideout, then flush them out with a brush fire. The bandits blow up a boulder with dynamite and escape. Later, two bandits dressed as Range Rider and Dick rob the bank in Rio Hondo. A posse finds Range Rider and Dick and the two are arrested. Later, after showing the sheriff papers proving who he is, Range Rider sets a trap to attract the gang.
Featuring
Range Rider
Content
Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Range Rider; Dick West; Rawhide (horse)
Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Art notes as for the first story.
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