Star Ranger Funnies 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.