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Issue: Tex Ritter Western #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #15 of 20 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): C. W. Woods
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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Murder in the Hills

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photography)
Inker(s): ? (photography)
Colorist(s): ? (photography)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Tex Ritter (photograph)
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Pages: 1
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Not Backwards

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): Pinto Pete
Synopsis: Pete has built a radio playing backwards.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The artwork is very similar to his signed [as Mark Howell] stories "Black Fury and Chuck" in Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #22 and 23. Especially the peculiar highlighted pupils in the eyes in close up, that looks like tiny black horseshoes.

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The Strange Festival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Juan Juarez (foreman); Hank Millars (crooked prospector)
Synopsis: An old prospector once left Juarez half a map leading to a gold mine, and now he has met a prospector who owns the other half of it. They form a partnership, but one of them wants it all.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The movement of the figures, and the small narrow eyes far apart are identical to the credited Pete Riss story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #44 and the quite accurate horses are drawn exactly the same way.
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The Tall Tale of the Tiny Tourist!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Buffalo Bull
Character(s): Buffalo Bull; Ed (tiny tourist)
Synopsis: Bill is telling a story of a six-inch tall tourist he met at the trading post.
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Tex Ritter
First Line: This month I'd like to say something about a matter which every cowhand knows.
Synopsis: How to handle a rifle.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Same art as the main story.
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Fugitive

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rod Reed [as Clement Good] (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Clam O'Reilly; Sheriff Simms; Luke (outlaw); Shorty (outlaw)
Synopsis: Clem sneaks out of town when he hears he has to make a speach after catching six stagerobbers.
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Pages: 2
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Well Put

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Loonie Les
Character(s): Loonie Les
Synopsis: Les will not cross the Indian territory.
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Pages: 0.5
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Now You Can Get Tex Ritter Western Every Other Month, By Mail

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tex Ritter Western
Synopsis: Subscription advertisement for Tex Ritter Western.
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Pages: 0.5
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Murder in the Hills

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Pete Riss
Inker(s): Pete Riss
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Tex Ritter
Character(s): Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Fury (dog); VILLAINS: Deke; Caldwell; Burns
Synopsis: After a goldrobber is caught by Tex, he signs a full confession with the names of the other two robbers. When taken to the jailhouse, the prisoner is killed.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Notes as for the first story.
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Operation Laughter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Doctor Quack
Character(s): Doctor Quack; Patient
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Pages: 3
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The Fiery Fur Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Pete Riss
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Tex Ritter
Character(s): Tex Ritter; White Flash (horse); Watts (fur trader); Tall Tree; Hypno (crooked hypnotizer)
Synopsis: A crook steals furs by hypnotizing them.
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Pages: 7.66
Disclose Notes: Notes as for the first story, but the inking is quite different here.
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Ride With Moviedom's Famous Cowboy...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Edmond Good
Inker(s): Edmond Good
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Monte Hale
Character(s): Monte Hale
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Pages: 0.34
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Cowboy Carbine

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Fred Harman (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Harman (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
Character(s): Red Ryder
Synopsis: The famous Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine for Christmas.
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Pages: 1
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Fawcett Comics Are The Finest

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Various
Inker(s): Various
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Marvel Jr.; Captain Marvel; Mary marvel; Bill Battle; Nyoka; Rod Cameron; Monte Hale; Hopalong Cassidy; Rocky Lane; Lash LaRue
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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