(September 1963)
Texas Trio,
1963 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 34
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Brand
- ?
- Editing
- Buddy Saunders; Howard Keltner; Larry Herndon
Issue Notes
Amateur fanzine; "ditto" interior. Approximately 250 copies printed.
[no title indexed]
The Changeling, The Defender, Doctor Weird, The Astral Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Changeling; The Defender; Doctor Weird; The Astral Man
- Reprints
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in The Best of Star-Studded Comics (Hamster Press, 2005 series) ([January] 2005) [0.25 page]
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Slaves of the Brainwave!
The Defender / text story / 8 pages
- Script
- Larry Herndon
- Pencils
- Richard "Grass" Green
- Inks
- Richard "Grass" Green
- Letters
- Richard "Grass" Green
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
First appearance. Next appearance next issue.
Introducing-- Doctor Weird
Doctor Weird / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Rex Ward [Dr. Weird]; Erla; Dr. Anton Reeves
- Synopsis
- Dr. Rex Ward, a scientist from the year 2013, time-travels into the past. But on exiting his time-vehicle, he's killed by a pair of common burglars. En route to the great beyond, a mysterious voice tells him that because he died before he was born, he's become "a thing that cannot be"-- therefore, he's condemned to remain on Earth as a ghost until the time of his natural death. Taking the name Dr. Weird, he decides to "wage a never-ceasing war on the forces of evil".
Indexer Notes
First published Dr. Weird story. Dr. Weird created by Howard Keltner in 1941, as a tribute to Mister Justice (who was somewhat of a swipe of The Spectre). Origin story retold in Fantastic Exploits #16 (Texas Trio, early 1970); that version reprinted in Dr. Weird Special #1 (Caliber, February 1994). Next appearance in Star-Studded Comics (Texas Trio, 1963 series) #4 (June 1964).
The Astral Man
The Astral Man / text story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Creg Flanders, P.I. [The Astral Man] (Introduction); Lynn Gregory (his secretary); Zoran (alien scientist)
- Synopsis
- Zoran, an alien scientist, bestows on Creg Flanders the anti-gravity powers.
Indexer Notes
First appearance. The Astral Man created by Tommy Fisher (possibly as a Hal Jordan-Green Lantern tribute). Next appearance in Star-Studded Comics (Texas Trio, 1963 series) #4 (June 1964).
Fearfull Weapon!
The Changeling / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- in The Best of Star-Studded Comics (Hamster Press, 2005 series) ([January] 2005) [splash page only]
-
Indexer Notes
First appearance. Next appearance next issue.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Changeling, The Defender, Doctor Weird, The Astral Man -
1.
Slaves of the Brainwave!
The Defender -
2.
Introducing-- Doctor Weird
Doctor Weird -
3.
The Astral Man
The Astral Man -
4.
Fearfull Weapon!
The Changeling
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Robert K. S. Croy, Sr.
- Jochen G.
- Henry R. Kujawa
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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