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HOW TO ORDER • Send 25 C6n,S fCr eQch P ' an t0 MECHAN,X ILLUSTRATED Plans Service, Faw- cett Building, Greenwich, Conn. Please order by name of plan and the number TEX RITTER WESTERN * Executive Editor WILL ItlEBERSON Editor M. SHULL Art Editor AL JETTSR The following outstanding magazine* are easily identified on their covers by the words A FAWCETT PUBLICATION. CAPT. MARVEL ADVENTURES • LASH URUE WESTERN . THE MARVEL FAMILY • FAWCETTS FUNNT ANIMALS WHIZ COMICS • WESTERN HERO • ROCKY LANE WESTERN • NYOKA THE JUNCLE CIRL • CABBY HAYES WESTERN CAPT. MARVEL JR. • MASTER COMICS • TOM MIX WESTERN . MONTE HALE WESTERN •> HOPALONC CASSIOV ROD CAMERON WESTERN • BILL BOYD WESTERN • SIX-CUN HEROES • FAWCETT MOVIR COMIC- « SOB COL1 MOTION PICTURE COMICS • TEX RITTER WESTERN Every effort Is made to insure that these comic magazines contain the highest quality of wholesome entertainment. (4/ // tfatt/ecfiffe President k gUnsmokb- . MORTGAGE IM THE TOWW OF SANDSTONE WAS THE MORTGAGEE'S DEATH WARRANT* WHEN TEX. RITTER, UNDERCOVER PRAIRIE RANSER, RODE INTO TOWW, THE DEADW GUNS, WHICH HAD BEEN LEAVING A STREAK OP CARNAGE BEHIND THEM. WERE TURNED ON HIM. IN PLAYING 1* THE SLACK CLOUDS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS SLOWLY JIFT AWAY, TEX FINDS HIMSELF A PRISONER. 3 I FIG6ERED VDU HAD IDEAS ABOUT ME AND THE 80Y5 PLUGGING YOUR FRIENDS JEFF SHORE AMD JANSON, SO I KEPT A CLOSE WATCH OKI YOU . WHEM YOU LEFT TOWN, I FOLLOWED I TM© IS THE END OF THE TRAIL FOR VDU, (VM5TER WHY NOT ? VOU WOMT BE ALIVE TO STOP US." WE'RE TOSSING YOU IN A BED OF QUICKSAND NEAR THE RIDGE—AND THEN HARKNESS IS GETTING A DOSE OF LEAD ,' EASY, HOMBRE .' I GOT J TAKE HIM AWAY, BOYS .' AN ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER i As THE SUCKING QUICKSAND BEGINS TO PULL TEXT TO HIS DOOMfPEVERISHLY HE TRIES TO FREE HIMSELF OF HIS WRIST BONDS. I ; c; r *fX RlfTEft WESTtR* VICIOUSLY, THE UNRELENTING FORCE PULLS TEX TO CERTAIN DEATH - -AFTER ETERNALLY LONG (MINUTES/ TEX IS ABLE TO WORK OUT OF HIS BONOS.' WEI&HW.'J ( THERE I I'M FREE.' THIS SLIPPERY .( fA MIRE HELPED ME TO SLIP AAV HANDS OUT OF THE KNOTi WHITE Soon... ha, ha! Give/wy REGARD© TO JEFP SHORE AND LOU JANSON.HARKNESii THIS IS THE END OF THE TRAIL FOR YOU. I'LL PLANT THE BANK NOTE OM YOUR CARCASS AND THEN CALL J^~? THE 5HERIFFJ J*0&*r\ I I WONDER IF | ^ YOU'LL LAUGH ' WHEN THEY PUT THE NOOSt AROUND VOU, ' ^ ' U IIW TE^RtmR-WEfTERN 1 YOU MURDERING JASPER.' VOIS'dS NOT KILLING ANYONE ELSE '. THERE'S A ROPE WAITING FOR. YOU AND I DON'T AIM TO KEEP IT WAITING TOO LONG .' CAPTURED GANG OP KILLERS ARE BROUGHT INTO TOWN ANP.. ELLIOT MADE US DO ^THE ONLY IT! HE FIGGERED ON } THING GETTING THE BIG S HE'S PROPERTIES THROUGH 1 GOING HIS FRAME-UPS. HE /TO GET WAS OUT TO TAKE / IS ; OVER THE WHOLE ./QUICK TERRITORY . car JUSTICE / ifoA MIGHTY GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU OlDi TEXi IT'S ALL IN THE PAY'S WORK OF A PRAIRIE RANGER, SHERIFF >. WELL— IT'S TIME TO HIT THE TRAIL AGAIN i ADIOSj 1 /rw rsr^.-r RHT£Q WISTEaW Now You Can Get TEX RITTER WESTERN Every Other Month, By Mail 'Please print your name clearly in pencil) FAWCETT PUBLICATIONS INC. SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT GREENWICH, CONN. YES. send me TEX RITTER WESTERN every other month. I am enclosing $ in full payment. Name Address City Zone State- Subscription Rates for U. 5. and Possessions and Pan America (CHECK ONE) Q 12 Issues for $1.20 Q 24 Issues for $2.25 a 36 Issues for $3.00 Sorry, no subscriptions »ent to Canada, tf-wr ether foreign countries, add 50 cents per year CIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS F OR YOUR FRIENDS FAWCETT PUBLICATIONS INC. SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT GREENWICH, CONN. YES, send TEX RITTER WESTERN every other month to the names below, as my Name Address City Zone State. □ 12 issues Q 24 issues □ 36 issues Name _ Address City Zone State. □ 12 issues □ 24 issues □ 36 issues My gift rsrH should rppd I enclose $. .for the above orders. ADVfSTISlMtNT 10 different Cut-out models of our latest fighting planes! • I:. Exact replicas in design! You can learn to be a plans spotter! Fly squadron formations— swap 'em around! A snap to assemble! Just press 'em out— fold and lot 'em ride! # Start new! Collect the whole set! 6 IMI, KILLSSC COM»ANT LuUh..d f-60 Shoetine Star **"**"^t*raisin bran is now a irip/e treat! Honeycomb raisins plus crispy bran flakes plus & jet fighter cut-out in every package! • SjSi.H!l4 f 14 4i W/r " '*t/Tr J *Appiie. is U.S. patk&sss only, in Canada >*• paekeas for ip»e!af oftsrs. IrttStuTTEfiiwESTEKM s®s®&(? WHAT HAPPENED /fGROAN) I TO YUH, ^>^ HAD AN HAWKE: f accident while \ while taking) feu. to the <* TAKING A BATH.' I A BATH? J BOTTOM AND I J- / THAT'S TOO BAP,) I RBCKON HAWKES/ YUH f< YO'RE should use '"Bright/ the kind of soap that floats and that wouldn't HAPPEN/ THAR' S A NEW SOAP THAT'S MUCH SETTER /> THAR ) REALLY.' YUH IS? /MEAN IT DOES f rt\ORE THAN V FLOAT? IT 5H0RE DOES.' IT NOT ONLY FLOAT5 — J (6ASP) t f f BUT «P YUH WHISTLE IT SWIMS ->, GBTLQWALT DiSNBY CHARACTER Cinderella Mickey Mouse Pinocchio Brer Rabbit Lucifer Dumbo Bambi RIGHT ON WHEATIES 60X£ ©waw bisnst pneeweTieN* TEX (UTTER WESTERM Idii^'the TEX RlTTER 111 SOUTH B&V6RUV DRIVE ^6V6RUV HIUUS ( CAUF. y^- >?*Z> HOWDY, PALS, IN MY LAST LETTER I TOLD YOU A LITTLE ABOUT THE OLD-7IME LAW- | MAM I MET UP WITH IN THE ROCKIE5. NOW A HEAP HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE COURAGEOUS QUNSLINGERS OF THE OLD WEST AND I WAS MIGHTY EAGER. TO HEAR WHffT HE HAD TO S«/ FOR HIMSELF-. IT SEEMS HE HAD A HEAP TO DO WITH WIPING OUT THE MURDERING BORDER BUNCH . AFTER TELLING ME ABOUT THEM , THE OLD TIMER STARTED TO SAY HOW FOLKS WERE PLUMB CHANGED FROM THE WAY THEY USED TO BE . I CALLED HIS HAND PRONTO ON THAT ONE, "|M WHAT WAY A RE THEY ..DIFFERENT ?" I A5KED HIM . WELL, PARDS, HE BUSTED OUT IN A SLOW GRIN AND THEN SPOKE . ■T RECKON FOLKS Ik THE OLD DAYS WERE JUST NATURALLY A HEAP ^MORE 'CAT- EYED' FOR ONE THING ."' THE OLD TIMER WAS MIGHTY RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THAT, TOO . IN THOSE DAYS FOLKS HAD TO 8E CAT-EYED-- - IF THEY AIMED TO GO OH LIVING . WHEN THEY RODE TRAIL OR PITCHED CAMP FOR THE NIGHT THEY HAD TO BE Ohi THE ALERT FOR WAR-LIKE INDIANS OR PROWLlNS MOUNTAIN LIONS. IT'S TOO BAD THAT FOLKS HAVE GOT OUT OP THE HABIT OF BEING CAT-EYED, BECAUSE A HEAP OF ACCIDENTS COULD BE AV0ID6D. ESPECIALLY WHEN CROSSING THE STREETS . SO I WANT ALL YOU PARO& TO BE MIGHTY CAT-EYED AND WARY OF THE AUTOMOBILES THAT COME STAMPEDlNS AROUND CORNERS AND DOWN THE STREETS. •T MAKES MIGHTY QQQO SENSE TO BE OM THE ALERT AT ALL TIMES . YOUR PARD, TEX RITTER WESTERN Vtb PAti&S OF A FLOOD OP COuMTEKFifT MONEY CONTiNUES TO POUR ACROSS THE BOEDER, im. KtrreRf the fighting prairie ran©ir< USES HIS TWO SLASHING FISTS AND ©LAZING SIX-GUNS AS A BARRIER AGAINST THE MURDEROUS GANG i BUT TEX DOeSNT COUNT ON A STRANGE WEAPON USED BY THE OWLHOOTS— A WEAPON THAT HA& HIM EAR -MARKED FOR BOOT HIU, AS HE TANGLES WITH FANSS £&N URGENT SUMMONS FOR AID BRINGS TEX RITTER. TO THE SMALLTOWN OF CRATER GULCH I ROLLING HILLS '. THOSE DOSS ARE BENT ON KILLING HJRY .' ^g—. VI RECKON | HE CAN TAKE /CARE OF 'himself .ALL RIGHTi IF THE OOPS 'AREN'T STACKED ^AGAINST MM .' WAL, I SAY HE'S A \ X SUPPOSE YELLA.CRAWLIN', \ THERE' 3 MANGY MUTT— AN£> J ONLY ONE MAYBE THAT'S BE- J THING I CAUSE THE JASPER, UH£ DOG FOLLOWING DAY, TEX SHOWS- UP AT THE TRACK I EVEN IF YOU DON'T WIN, FUR^ YOU HAVE A PART TO PLAY. WE'RE AFTER SOMETHING BIG- Q\GER THAN JUST WIN- ~\nIN© A RACE. UNDERSTAND ? TEX R1TTER WESTERN I SAW HIM ALL RIGHT, GO GET WM, CZhZOWCEG: SHOW THAT WOM8RE YOU CAN RIP HI5 MUTT APART ALL SV YOURSELF.' / STOP THAT F»©MT.' \ /=*/£•// SACK, &er those ooe>$ I ovw ' APART/ ROLUMG, WUS.' LOOK WHAT'S ROLLED UP IN THE HEM OF THIS PIECE OF BLANKET/,. COUNTERFEIT MONEY i I GUESS WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK— AND I DON IT MEAN OO& TRACK/ SO THAT'S HOW DENO CARR SMUGGLES THE p, ~ * A MOMEY IN : y~ jK ~&~~^ TEX KITTER WESTERN ^HAT AFTEhNOON, AFTER TEX HAS TOLO THE SHERIFF OF HIS. DISCOVERY — i guess you're RIGHT.TEX. NO SENSE MOVING IM ON THOSE JAS- PERS BEFORE WE PINO OUT WHERE THEY'RE PRINTING THAT COUNTERFEIT MONEY I \ I INTEND TO FORCE HIS HAND , *~ SHERIFF, BY FOLLOWING MY HUNCH. THE WAY I FIGURE IT, DENO IS USING THOSE DOGS AS A COVER. FOR SMUGGLING THE MONEY INTO THE COUNTRY. HE KEEPS HIS DOG WAGON ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER WHERE THEY PROBABLY PRINT THE MONEY, v— ■