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"Remember the Alamo!" (1966)
Alamo history as seen in Texas Rangers in Action #55, June 1966. Pencils and inks by Rocco Mastroserio. Scanned for ComicBookPlus by jodyanimator.
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: In the Army Now, Cont'd (1943)
Scranton Times-Tribune, July 3, 1943Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, July 4, 1943Wisconsin State Journal, Oct. 10, 1943Pottsdown Mercury, Oct. 11, 1943Circleville Herald, Oct. 13, 1943Oakland Tribune, Nov....
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THE LONE RANGER follows "The Code of the West" (1951)
This adventure comes riding at us from The Lone Ranger #32, dated Feb 1951. It features some action-packed art by the Ranger's longtime comic strip artist, Charles Flanders. Was this story adapted from...
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World Adventurers: DAVY CROCKETT - A Three-Part Text Article (1949)
This feature appeared in three consecutive issues of Rangers Comics, beginning with #46 in April 1949. It offers a brief sketch of Davy's Indian fighting and Congressional career, then focuses on the...
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CROCKETT'S DEVIL: A Rip-Roaring Review by Larry Paschelke
My friend Larry Paschelke, whom you know as the patron for my access to the early run of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, has offered his take on this modern-day epic. Thanks Larry!From the cover of...
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BAT MASTERSON Comic Strip - Week 13 (1959) THE END (for now)
Next week: Something completely different.
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The Shadow Lives! in the pages of THE SHADOWED CIRCLE #2
America’s new “Pulp Journal” returns—and it’s another corker!Editor Steve Donoso and his agents are obviously putting a lot of work into this project, and pulp fandom is richer for it. This is a...
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JOHNNY CRAIG introduces CAPTAIN CRIME, "The Field Marshal of Murder" (1948)
A war story in a crime comic? OK. From Crime Patrol #7, 1948. Can't swear to it, but I suspect this first appearance of the Captain was also his last.
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DAVY CROCKETT accepts "The Challenge of Black Warrior" (1955)
Davy got the DC treatment in all eight issues of Frontier Fighters, beginning with this tale in #1, Sept-Oct 1955. Other stories in each ish featured Buffalo Bill (by Joe Kubert) and Kit Carson....
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: George Raft returns to "The Glass Key" (1943)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 18, 1943New York Daily News, Jan. 27, 1943Shreveport Times, Jan. 29, 1943Des Moines Register, Jan. 29, 1943
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HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL with "A Deadly Partner" (1959)
From Four Color Comics #983, Apr-June 1959. Thanks to darkmark for the post to ComicBookPlus.
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SECRET AGENT X-9: Terror in Cafe Society - Week 1 (1939)
Another adventure illustrated by the very cool Austin "Bud" Briggs. If you've been reading the Hammett Herald-Tribune on Wednesdays, you've seen his illos for several Continental Op stories. Author...
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MIKE FINK, "King of the River" (1942)
From True Comics #8, back in Jan 1942, comes this "true" adventure of Davy's one-time rival. Don't know who drew it. Someone called "the coot" stuck it up on ComicBookPlus, and No, I don't think it was...
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: The Thin Man Radio Show rolls on (1943)
Des Moines Tribune, Jan. 8, 1943Tampa Times, Jan. 8, 1943Harrisburg Telegraph, Jan. 9, 1943Shreveport Times, Feb. 5, 1943
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