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Issue Details

Issue V2#1
Published January 1939
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52(?)
Editing Lloyd Jacquet
Notes editor listed in Statement of Ownership.

Cover Details

Genre western
Pencils Jack Cole (signed)
Inks Jack Cole (signed)

4 page Home in the Ozarks story "The little home of the Heffer family, tucked away in the Ozarks..."

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.
Genre humor
Script Jack Cole (signed)
Pencils Jack Cole (signed)
Inks Jack Cole (signed)

1 page biography (nonfictional) "Rangeography!"

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.
Genre Bio
Script Terry Gilkison (signed)
Pencils Terry Gilkison (signed)
Inks Terry Gilkison (signed)

3 page story "Fabricatin' Phil"

Characters Fabricatin' Phil (a compulsive liar)
Synopsis Phil tells tall tales of his exploits.
Genre humor
Script Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed)
Pencils Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed)
Inks Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood] (signed)

7 page story "The Wild Casey Bunch Tangles with a Kid Sheriff"

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.
Genre western
Script Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed)
Pencils Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed)
Inks Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley] (signed)

2 page One Buck and Two Bits story "Me squaw man One Buck..."

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.
Genre humor
Script Martin Filchock (signed)
Pencils Martin Filchock (signed)
Inks Martin Filchock (signed)

7 page story "Footprints in the Dust"

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.
Genre western
Script Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed)
Pencils Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed)
Inks Howard Hastings [as H. L. Hastings] (signed)

1 page Horsefeathers story "Comic Cowboys"

Characters Montany Filchock
Synopsis Filchock features himself as Montany in a feature to help aspiring artist draw a horse.
Genre humor
Script Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed)
Pencils Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed)
Inks Martin Filchock [as Montany Marty Filchock] (signed)

text story "The Secret of the White Sands"

Genre western
Script Pat Allen [as Pat "Tex" Allen] (signed)
Pencils Pat Allen [as P.A.] (signed)
Inks Pat Allen [as P.A.] (signed)
Notes text with spot illustration.

7 page Windy Parks story "Windy Parks at the Desert Mission"

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.
Genre western
Script Victor J. Dowling (signed)
Pencils Victor J. Dowling (signed)
Inks Victor J. Dowling (signed)

2 page Famous Frontiersmen biography (nonfictional) "Wild Bill Hickock"

Characters Wild Bill Hickock
Script Ray Burley
Pencils Ray Burley
Inks Ray Burley

4 page The Ermine story "Episode Two: The Redmen's Despair"

Characters The Ermine
Synopsis The Ermine aides the Thorne Family when redskins raid them and kidnap their daughter.
Genre western
Script George Filchock
Pencils George Filchock
Inks George Filchock

Half page Joe Ticket story "The Picket"

Synopsis Joe is a picketing union employee, taunting his employers with the messages on his placards.
Genre humor
Script Fred Schwab ?
Pencils Fred Schwab ?
Inks Fred Schwab ?

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Letters typeset
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.

7 page Buck Bush story "Buck Bush Has a Showdown"

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.
Genre western
Script Joe E. Buresch (signed)
Pencils Joe E. Buresch (signed)
Inks Joe E. Buresch (signed)