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Issue Details

Issue #255
Published November 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's The Ranger". "Published by arrangement with the Hawley Publications, Inc." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #255-4911. Copyright 1949 by Zane Grey, Inc.

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's The Ranger"

Characters Buck Duane
Genre western
Pencils Morris Gollub ? (painting)
Inks Morris Gollub ? (painting)
Colors Morris Gollub ? (painting)
Notes Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler The "Six-Shooter"

Synopsis Facts about the Colt Single-Action Army Revolver.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Till Goodan
Inks Till Goodan
Letters Till Goodan
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Hand-lettered article with one large and two small illustrations.

32 page story "The Ranger"

Characters Buck Duane; Cheseldine; Ray Longstreth; Jim Laramie; Floyd Lawson; Bo Snecker; Jim Fletcher
Synopsis Pardoned outlaw Buck Duane, now a Texas Ranger, goes undercover to find out the identity of the criminal mastermind known as Cheseldine.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
Notes Abridged adaptation of 1915 novel "The Lone Star Ranger" by Zane Grey. Script submitted on May 16 (15 pages) and May 30, 1949 (17 pages). Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

1 page filler "The 30-30 Carbine"

Synopsis Facts about the Winchester Model 94 rifle.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Till Goodan
Inks Till Goodan
Letters Till Goodan
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Hand-lettered article with one large and two small illustrations.

1 page filler "The Stagecoach"

Synopsis Facts about stagecoach travel in the old West.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Till Goodan
Inks Till Goodan
Letters Till Goodan
Notes Back cover; color. Hand-lettered article with one large and two small illustrations.