Star Ranger (1937 Ulten Pub.) 4

Cover by Dick Ryan. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Jack Romer, Norman Daniels, Fred Guardineer, W. M. Allison, Dick Ryan, Bard Reynolds, Rafael Astarita, Fred Schwab, Jim Chambers, Charles R. Allen and Irving Frisch. An early Western anthology published by Harry Chesler, one of the first Western-themed U. S. comic books (along with Western Picture Stories). Historical and educational strips, including comics biographies of Chief Two Gun White Calf, Pat Crowe and The Prairie Dog. Short Western strips, sometimes just one to three pages, with titles like Lyin' Lou and Tenderfoot Joe. Banditos hijack a plane with military pilot Ted aboard, and he mounts a desperate plan. Outlaws fleeing a posse are stymied by a poisoned well. Also featuring an early story by Charles Biro, later the mind behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. Air Plunder; Taca Tala; Real Man; Poisoned Water; Death Rides the Range; Tenderfoot Joe; Tenderfoot Mary; Wild West Junior; Ace and Deuce; Words Without Music; Null and Void; Cowboy Jake; Lyin' Lou; Chief Two Gun White Calf; The Square-Ups; The Old Prospector; The Last Hand; The Gay Desperado; Out Where the West Begins; Gopher Moore; Tommy Hawk; Tubby of the T-Bone Ranch; Homeless Oscar; Wagon Trail; Trouble Hunters; Hokus-Pokus; Wings Over the Border; Jest the Type; Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Western Facts; Pedro and Pancho; Jess Phoolin; Prairie Dog; Palsy-Walsy; Pat Crowe; Slim Pickens; The West That Was; Killer McGee; Bunk House; Lonesome Luke. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2 in., 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.