Star Ranger Funnies #v2#1

(January 1939)

["The little home of the Heffer family, tucked away in the Ozarks..."] (Table of Contents)

Home in the Ozarks / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

68

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Duddy Heffer; Fud Heffer

Synopsis:

The Heffer Family has visitors from the Big City who are looking to exploit them by buying their land dirt cheap. The consummate with a toast of Moonshine, but the City folk can't hold their liquor.

Rangeography! (Table of Contents)

biography (nonfictional) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Pencils:

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Inks:

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Bio

Characters:

Capt. L.H. McNelly; John Wesley Harding; Sam Houston

Synopsis:

Bios of historic Texas Rangers and facts about the Rio Grande and the Mavericks that populated the early Texas frontier territory.

Fabricatin' Phil (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed)

Pencils:

Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed)

Inks:

Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Fabricatin' Phil (a compulsive liar)

Synopsis:

Phil tells tall tales of his exploits.

The Wild Casey Bunch Tangles with a Kid Sheriff (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed)

Pencils:

Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed)

Inks:

Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Tom Brent (Sheriff)

Synopsis:

Ed Casey runs the Casey Bunch, a hardened group of train robbers whom the law can't seem to stop. Tom Brent is the new sheriff, and he will have to take the Casey Bunch down in order to keep his job.

["Me squaw man One Buck..."] (Table of Contents)

One Buck and Two Bits / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Martin Filchock (signed)

Pencils:

Martin Filchock (signed)

Inks:

Martin Filchock (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

One Buck; Two Bits

Synopsis:

One Buck applies for a job at the Post Office as delivery man on the Reservation. Includes a word puzzle hosted by Two Bits.

Footprints in the Dust (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed)

Pencils:

Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed)

Inks:

Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Synopsis:

A rancher captures a fabulous black stallion, but his daughter sets it free in the night. Furious, the rancher goes to lynch a Mexican ranch hand whom he suspects stole the horse. Bigmoose, a native American, stops the lynching just in time, having read the clues about what really happened.

Comic Cowboys (Table of Contents)

Horsefeathers / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed)

Pencils:

Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed)

Inks:

Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Montany Filchock

Synopsis:

Filchock features himself as Montany in a feature to help aspiring artist draw a horse.

The Secret of the White Sands (Table of Contents)

text story / pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Pat Allen [as Pat "Tex" Allen] (signed)

Pencils:

Pat Allen [as P.A.] (signed)

Inks:

Pat Allen [as P.A.] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Indexer Notes

text with spot illustration.

Windy Parks at the Desert Mission (Table of Contents)

Windy Parks / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Victor J. Dowling (signed)

Pencils:

Victor J. Dowling (signed)

Inks:

Victor J. Dowling (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Windy Parks

Synopsis:

Windy spins a story about an adventure in California when a cut-throat gang of prospectors tried to separate Windy from his gold, and only the padre at the local mission can save him from hanging.

Wild Bill Hickock (Table of Contents)

Famous Frontiersmen / biography (nonfictional) / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ray Burley

Pencils:

Ray Burley

Inks:

Ray Burley

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Wild Bill Hickock

Episode Two: The Redmen's Despair (Table of Contents)

The Ermine / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George Filchock

Pencils:

George Filchock

Inks:

George Filchock

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

The Ermine

Synopsis:

The Ermine aides the Thorne Family when redskins raid them and kidnap their daughter.

The Picket (Table of Contents)

Joe Ticket / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Schwab ?

Pencils:

Fred Schwab ?

Inks:

Fred Schwab ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Joe is a picketing union employee, taunting his employers with the messages on his placards.

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Lists Joseph J. Hardie as publisher, Lloyd Jacquet as editor, Raymond J. Kelly as Business Manager. Under ownership, it lists Centaur Publications, Inc., Harie Publications Inc. (I believe that this may be a typo, meant to be Hardie Publications Inc.), and Raymond J. Kelly.

Buck Bush Has a Showdown (Table of Contents)

Buck Bush / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe E. Buresch (signed)

Pencils:

Joe E. Buresch (signed)

Inks:

Joe E. Buresch (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

Buck Bush; Calaboose Kid

Synopsis:

Sheriff Buck Bush is the toughest guy around, and when he is challenged to a duel by the Calaboose Kid, the excitement in the town swells. When the duel takes place, the two recognize each others as brother, and cancel the duel, leaving the townspeople humming mad.