Star Ranger Funnies Vol. 2 (1939) 1

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Cover by Jack Cole. Stories and art by Jack Cole, Ray Burley, Terry Gilkison, George Filchock, Howard Hastings, Pat Allen, Martin Filchock, Fred Schwab, Victor J. Dowling, and Joe E. Buresch. Centaur publishes the final run of Star Ranger, one of the very first Western comics. Short Western strips, sometimes just one to three pages, with titles like Wild West Junior and Cowboy Jake. Historical and educational strips, including comics biographies of "Wild Bill" Hickock and the Texas Rangers, and fun facts about the Rio Grande and the Mavericks. The new sheriff in town tries to stop the train-robbing Casey Bunch. A wealthy rancher almost kills the wrong man for stealing his black stallion, but luckily Native American detective Bigmoose deciphers the clues. Moonshine saves a farm family from being swindled by city slickers, in an early humor strip by comics legend Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man. Home in the Ozarks; The Ermine; Rangeography!; Fabricatin' Phil; The Wild Casey Bunch Tangles with a Kid Sheriff; One Buck and Two Bits; Footprints in the Dust; How to Draw Comic Cowboys featuring Horsefeathers; The Secret of the White Sands; Famous Frontiersmen; Windy Parks; Joe Ticket the Picket; Buck Bush. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.