Star Ranger comic books issue 5

Cover by Art Pinajian. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Paul Gustavson, Art Pinajian, Gill Fox, Fred Guardineer, George Filchock, Frank Frollo, Martin Filchock, Fred Schwab, Al Hopkins, and William Allison. 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 movie cowboy Gene Autry and other radio stars. The Medicine Man claims that his curio show features the skull of Hamlet, but if people don't believe that, he also has the skull of Hamlet as a child. The mysterious scout known as The Ermine rescues frontier girl Alice, only to learn that her parents have fled to the Cumberland Gap. Also featuring early humor strips by Bob Wood, later the mind behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. Brief Biography of Radio Stars; Tenderfoot Joe; Killer McGee; The Ermine; Red Man of the Rockies; Cowboy Jake; Stars on the Range; Lyin' Lou; Lee Trent; Jess Phoolin; Wild West Junior; One Buck and Two Bits; Tenderfoot Mary; Ace and Deuce; Tubby of the T-Bone Ranch; Star Gags; Medicine Man; Centaur Kid; Null and Void; Tommy Hawk; Chief Weasel-Tail; Jest the Type; Ace and Deuce; Comic Cowboy; IndiaNotes. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Fred Schwab. Stories and art by Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Norman Daniels, Fred Guardineer, Tod Moro, Jack Meltzer, Creig Flessel, Fred Schwab, Jim Chambers, 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 Jack Dalton and Chief Bad Hawk. Short Western strips, sometimes just one to three pages, with titles like Lyin' Lou and Tenderfoot Joe. The Trouble Hunters match wits with two rodeo rejects who have a supply of fireworks. Killer McGee is tried for his crimes against an entire state. Also featuring early stories and art by comics legends Jack Cole (creator of Plastic Man) and Will Eisner.White Coat; Death Rides the Air Patrol; Ace in the Hole; Next of Kin; Tenderfoot Joe; Tenderfoot Mary; Wild West Junior; Ace and Deuce; Words Without Music; Null and Void; Cowboy Jake; Lyin' Lou; Chief Bad Hawk; Rolling Plains; White Coat; Rattlesnake; Stage Hold-Up; Air Patrol; Ace In the Hole; Tommy Hawk; Tubby of the T-Bone Ranch; Homeless Oscar; Next-o'-Kin; Trouble Hunters; Free Gold; Where Men Are Men; Daffy-Dills; Western Facts; Pedro and Pancho; Jess Phoolin; 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.