Star Ranger Funnies #v2#1

(January 1939)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

68

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The little home of the Heffer family, tucked away in the Ozarks...

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Rangeography! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Pencils

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Inks

Terry Gilkison (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; biography

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Fabricatin' Phil / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Schwab (signed as Ed Wood)

Pencils

Fred Schwab (signed as Ed Wood)

Inks

Fred Schwab (signed as Ed Wood)

Colors

?

Letters

?

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: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Burley (signed as R. A. Burley)

Pencils

Ray Burley (signed as R. A. Burley)

Inks

Ray Burley (signed as R. A. Burley)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Martin Filchock (signed)

Pencils

Martin Filchock (signed)

Inks

Martin Filchock (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Me squaw man One Buck...

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: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

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

Inks

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

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

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 featuring Horsefeathers (Table of Contents: 7)

How to Draw / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Martin Filchock (signed as Montany Marty Filchock)

Pencils

Martin Filchock (signed as Montany Marty Filchock)

Inks

Martin Filchock (signed as Montany Marty Filchock)

Colors

?

Letters

?

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: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Pat Allen (signed as Pat "Tex" Allen)

Pencils

Pat Allen (signed as P. A.)

Inks

Pat Allen (signed as P. A.)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Indexer Notes

text with spot illustration.

Windy Parks at the Desert Mission (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Victor Dowling (signed)

Pencils

Victor Dowling (signed)

Inks

Victor Dowling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

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: 10)

Famous Frontiersmen / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Burley

Pencils

Ray Burley

Inks

Ray Burley

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; biography; western-frontier

Characters

Wild Bill Hickock

Episode Two: The Redmen's Despair (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

George Filchock

Pencils

George Filchock

Inks

George Filchock

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

The Ermine

Synopsis

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

[Do Not Disturb] (Table of Contents: 12)

Joe Ticket the Picket / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Fred Schwab ?

Pencils

Fred Schwab ?

Inks

Fred Schwab ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

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

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents: 13)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

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: 14)

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

Script

Joe Buresch (signed)

Pencils

Joe Buresch (signed)

Inks

Joe Buresch (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

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.