Galdino was an excellent artist in his own right. This was published in 1948. Was Alberto Giolitti's work avaliable in the US at that time? Curious.
Excellent article on Galdino here. He seems to have been very influenced by film in his story-telling.
https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/tag/ted-galindo
Ironically, if he did swipe, he was in turn swiped, and very notoriously, by Roy Lichtenstein!
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/galindo_ted.htm
Amendment: Now I'm totally confused. The publishing detail on bottom of page 3 says September 1948.
The KirbyMuseum article says, ' The earliest listing for Ted in the GCD is February 1955' Huh?
Cheers!
Link to the book:
Prize Comics Western 119