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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published October 1949
Frequency every other month
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Seymour S. Schneid (Editor); J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
Notes Index revised by Craig Delich, January 2006. Cover & indicia title is Rangers Comics

Cover Details - "The Tomahawk Traitors of Plunder Canyon"

Characters Firehair
Genre western
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers
Reprinted in Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics, The (Running Press Book Publishers, 2008 series) #[nn]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Big Six of the Comics!"

Synopsis House ad for Fiction House Comics.
Notes Found on inside front cover.

10 page Firehair story [The Tomahawk Traitors of Plunder Canyon] ["The snorting, fire-eating iron horse that thundered..."]

Characters Firehair [Lynn Cabot] (frontier queen)
Genre western
Script ? [as John Starr]
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers
Notes The title is taken from the cover blurb.

8 page The Secret Files of Dr. Drew story "The Witch's Doll"

Characters Dr. Drew; Leander Miles; Jennie Paris; Higgins
Synopsis Jennie is being tortured by Leander Miles thru a voodoo doll.
Genre occult; detective
Script Marilyn Mercer
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti (signed)
Inks Jerry Grandenetti (signed)
Letters Abe Kanegson
Reprinted in Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics, The (Running Press Book Publishers, 2008 series) #[nn]; in Ghost Comics (Fiction House, 1951 series) #11

5 page Bart Battle story "Two nervous figures huddled near the nose of..."

Characters Bart Battle (intro; only appearance)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Tom Daf]
Pencils John Belfi (signed)
Inks John Belfi (signed)

6 page Jan of the Jungle story "Who was the stripling who dwelt with the..."

Characters Jan of the Jungle
Genre jungle
Script ? [as Coleman Hart]
Pencils Enrico Bagnoli
Inks Enrico Bagnoli

1 page text story "C.Q.D. (Important - Danger) - part 1"

Genre adventure
Script Henry Wysham Lanier
Letters typeset

6 page Sky Rangers story "What strange unseen force kept the Graham Construction..."

Characters Sky Rangers
Genre adventure
Script ? [as R.W. Colt]
Pencils Giovanni Benvenuti
Inks Giovanni Benvenuti

7 page I Confess story "Knock! Knock! Knock! This is Myra, your radio..."

Genre adventure
Script ? [as Myra Maxwell]
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Notes One quarter of last page is occupied by an ad. Although unsigned, this features Evans' favorite sneak, an apartment building named "Akimbo Arms." JV wonders if perhaps Al Williamson might not have assisted here in some manner.