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Issue Details

Issue #396
Published May 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, No. 396." Code number is T.R.O.S. #396-525. Copyright 1952 by Stacy Keach. Based on the "Tales of the Texas Rangers" TV Series. Continues as "Jace Pearson of the Texas Rangers" #2 (May-July 1953).

Cover Details - "Tales of the Texas Rangers"

Characters Joel McCrea (as Jace Pearson, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page filler "Ranger History"

Synopsis Short history of the Texas Rangers
Genre western; fact
Pencils August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Inks August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text.

24 page Tales of the Texas Rangers story "Panhandle Manhunt"

Characters Jace Pearson; Clay Morgan; Phil Craig; Charcoal (horse)
Synopsis Three members of bank robber Hock Denton's gang help Denton escape from the Bitter Creek jail. Jace Pearson is sent to lead an investigative team to find the gang.
Genre western

10 page Tales of the Texas Rangers story "Underwater Cache"

Characters Jace Pearson; Charcoal (horse)
Synopsis Jace Pearson becomes involved in a scheme to retrieve a box from the bottom of a lake near a dam and disguises himself as a diver to solve the mystery.
Genre western
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color.