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Issue Details

Issue #648
Published September 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "JACE PEARSON OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, No. 648." Code number is J.P.O.S. #648-559. Copyright 1955 by Stacy Keach. This Four Color issue comes after "Jace Pearson of the Texas Rangers" (Dell, 1953 series) #9 (February-April 1955) and before "Jace Pearson's Tales of the Texas Rangers" (Dell, 1955 series) #11 (November 1955-February 1956), so it was apparently intended to be #10 of one of the series. Based on the 1950-52 NBC "Tales of the Texas Rangers" radio series.

Cover Details

Characters Jace Pearson (as played by Joel McCrea, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (art); ? (photo)
Inks ? (art); ? (photo)
Colors ? (art); ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Cover is a cropped photograph with drawn background.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "A Pledge to Parents"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

14 page Jace Pearson of the Texas Rangers story "Trouble on Wings"

Characters Jace Pearson; Clay Morgan
Synopsis Will Fife's house sits on the county line between Cahoga County and Mesa County and he uses the difference in jurisdiction between the two counties to avoid answering to either county's sheriff when he's accused of smuggling and murder. Pearson and Morgan are assigned to investigate.
Genre western

10 page Jace Pearson of the Texas Rangers story "Escape"

Characters Jace Pearson; Clay Morgan
Synopsis Pearson is visiting an state penitentiary when three convicts try to escape. When Pearson leaves the prison he finds that one of the escapees was hiding in the back seat of his car. The convict changes clothes with Pearson, slugs him and leaves him along the side of the road.
Genre western

10 page Jace Pearson of the Texas Rangers story "The Acid Test"

Characters Jace Pearson
Synopsis Pearson has to find out why a couple of robbers are only stealing silver.
Genre western
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."