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HOPALONG CASSIBY ROO CAMERON WESTERN • RILL BOYD WESTERN • SIX-CUN HEROES • FAWCETT MOVIE COMIC • BOB COLT MOTION PICTURE COMICS • TEX RITTER WESTERN Every effort h made re Insure that these comic magazines contain the highest quality of wholesome entertainment. tV. // tPciujettf-W}; President fteir B/7£?: (m, bullet blackout RM Feb . I "52 Vnl 2 No 9. is published W-monmly by Fmcatt PubllCeridm, Inc.. Fsu":«H PUr.f. Green«/irV Co™ Cwr.jf.s 1951 iblicetions, Inc P'ini=d in U. S A -vr 5 TEX RITTfR WKTWW &ANV HOURS LATER, AS TEX ENTERS AXMORB... MIND 1? I DEAL ^ ^-— — — -n MYSELF A HAND )/ TH«T'S IN THIS RUCKUS ? Vi RANGER . -"f TEK , §??" ■*\ J \RtTTEE J ■^-^--X py E^fe w> \H /Kw^vS^ wfc v^ "^■w^r^ * c ^ Inflfc #^ §j %r r * f v h «&*w$f* TAKE IT EA5V, SHERIFFS ) YOU'RE TEX RITTER.— WE'LL HAVE THE DOC V TRAIRIE ranger: - HERE IN WO TIME 1 , /NEVERMIND DOC J • ■h-^ r""T CATAMOUNT-- SOT THE „ FIRST ONE ON THE LIBTf HELP-- ■ HELP THE JUDGE- Iks^AND PROSECUTOR—- ' - L ^ML^B^J&x J^ i AGHHWKH.' vTlWiwl tom-^m teairassr \ tMJm ^nmmnim, Wmf' M% If P^\|y w i ^^7 ^--NU?L W%,1 V I SUPPOSE THAT HOPPLE AND I ARE NEXT ON THAT KILLER'S LIST.' TEX RITTER WBTERN YfX HITTER WESTERN r SOT HIM, CAT.' LEND ME A HAND, WILL \ Dave Boy: Please come home right away. There's terrible trouble and I need your help. Bessie sends her love. Pop. he refolded the note and chuckled. "I reckon that's the umteenth letter I got from Pop ask- ing me to come back. He always says there's terrible trouble. Wonder what it can be this time? Maybe one of the hens has a toothache." The train slowed and he picked up his big carpet bag and began walking down the aisle. "Anyway, it'll be good to see Pop and Bessie again — and the old place, too. Seems like I've been away a long time." As he stepped onto the wooden station plat- form, the young man looked around. He didn't see his father anywhere, but he was rather startled when an attractive young woman rushed up to him and gave him a big hug. Then the light dawned. "Sis!" he exclaimed. "It's you ! Why, you're a grown up woman and mighty pretty at that I Bessie, I confess. J hardly knew youl" "I allow I have changed some," responded the girl. "I was only fourteen when you left home, Dave, and I'm nineteen now." "W n ere's pop?" asked Dave. "He's laid up with a broken leg," said Bessie. "Come on. Here's the buckboard and old Nell. We'd better hurry home. Pop is all-fired anxious to see you." > "Broken leg? Golly, I'm sorry. Is that the trouble be wrote about?* "No, it's worse. Rustlers!" "Well, that doesn't sound iike anything new," drawled Dave. "I reckon there'll always be rustlers as long as there are cattle." "Don't be so smug!" snapped Bessie. "It's worse than you think. A lot of the ranchers around here suspect that Pop is the head rustler!" Pop Spangler sat in an easy chair, with his splinted leg propped and cushioned straight in front of him. He quickly dispensed with the greetings and salutations for a son who had been away five years and got down to the business at hand. "Hustlers have been very active. Hardly a ranch in these parts hasn't been raided. Dave, I want you to catch them!" Dave looked startled. It was several seconds before he spoke. "Have they taken a lot of your cattle?" "Not a head!" asserted Pop. "Not a single whiteface from us! And that's just what makes some of the other ranchers suspect that I'm in with the varmints. That and one other thing?" "What other thing?" "The tracks always show that the cattle are driven onto our land, across the bench on the north forty. The tracks disappear on the rocks, of course. And the cattle disappear, too— like into thin air." "They probably . . ." Dave Spangler halted his speech as a tall, wiry man entered the room. Pop looked up and said, "Oh, by the by, Dave, this is my foreman, Squint Skell. Squint, shake hands with my son, Dave. Dreamy Dav5V" J we used to call him, because he spent all his time dreaming about far-off places." Dave grinned amiably, and the tall foreman grunted, "Howdy!" Pop said solemnly, "Dave, boy, after I'm dead and gone, you'll inherit this spread. There's only one promise I want from you and this is it. I want Squint to be foreman here just as long as he wants the job. He saved my life!" The old man related the tale. He had been riding ever the ranch's private bridge, crossing TEX CUTTER WESTERN Roaring Creek. A couple of planks were loose. The horse stumbled. Pop was pitched into the stream, breaking a leg. Without hesitation, Squint had dived in and saved the old man from drowning. There were tears of gratitude in Pop's eyes as he finished the tale. Everybody had expected Dave to fly into action at once to stop the rustlers. Instead, he had merely yawned. "Well, they aren't bothering this spread. And, Pop, if you're not in league with them, nobody can ever find you guilty. So why the fuss?" The next morning Dave wandered out Into the chicken yard and spent a considerable time trying to teach a young rooster to sit on bis shoulder and eat corn from his hand. Squint, who had been watching him for some time, finally came over and said, "Mr, Dave, I'm riding out to the north forty now. That's where the rustlers operate. Care to go along?" "Thanks, Squint, some other time," grinned Dave. "Right now I'm trying to teach this rooster some tricks. Used to be pretty good at when I was a kid." Squint mounted and rode away, shaking his head. Sister Bessie emerged from the kitchen a moment later. "Dave, what are you doing?" "Why, I'm trying to teach this rooster some tricks," he responded. "When I was a kid I used to dream of being an animal trainer in a circus. I used to . . ." She cut in sharply. "But what about the rustlers?" "Oh, I never tried to train any rustlers," •aid Dave. ■ iJessie turned impatiently and marched back the house. "It's no use," she told herself. "He's still as dreamy as ever." The young man who had come home after five years to revive the memories of his boy- hood was not bothered any more that day. In the afternoon, he mounted a horse and rode north to an abandoned mine shaft on the ranch property. "Here is where we kids used to play pirates, like Tom Sawyer," he thought. He dismounted and headed for the old mine en- trance, well screened by wild growth of scrub' brush and scraggly trees. Entering the old mine,. he looked down, ex- claimed, "Ah bal" and lolled against a side wall. While he lolled, he examined his six- guns to make sure they were loaded and ready. He had a long wait. After sunset, even the gray light of the cave-like shaft was turned to utter darkness. Then there was the slight silver of moonlight. Then, as he heard hoof- beats, he climbed to a ledge at the side of the shaft. Cattle came pouring into the shaft be- neath him and he could hear shouts outside. He couldn't tell how many longhorns had passed beneath him, but there was a pause and he took a chance. He jumped down silently, from his perch and made for the shaft en- trance. He saw the dark figures of three mounted men". One was aaying, "How abput Pop's son? Do we have to -worry about him?* "Dreamy Dave? A panty waist 1" came tba sneering reply. Dave recognized the voice of Squint SkelL Dave -rocketed one shot Into the air to announce hia presence, then snapped, "Raise 'em, rustlers 1" Two men raised their hands. Squint dropped his fingers toward bis holsters. Dave fired and the foreman bowled as a searing bullet nipped bis wrist, WHEN the rustlers were securely tied up in the bunk house, under guard, Dave strolled in the ranch parlor. He drawled, "Pop, I knew it would be bard for you ever to sus- pect a man who saved your life. But I won* dered why a good foreman would ever let the planks on the bridge get loose. I figured bo let them get loose on purpose. That-was to be sure you spilled into the water, so be could save you and win your trust. When you broke your leg, that made it even better. ~«*« «atj "I suspected him right away. And when X heard the rustlers were making their cattle disappear on our land, I thought of that old mine shaft. It runs for about half a mile un- derground. And there's a secret exit by the river bank. You know, when I was a dreamy kid, I dreamed that would be a good way to be a rustler — if I ever decided to be one!" Bessie looked at her brother with admira- tion. "Dave," she said, "you're real dreamy!" THE END tttf'Ilft "% osstimw «7?HE SIGHT OF A GUN BARREL V POINTED IN HIS DIRECTION MADE HIM QUAIL WITH FEAR- AND HE SOON BECAME BAIT FOR OUTLAWS BECAUSE H6 •ORE THE BRAND OM CBWAfMf BUT THERE WAS ONE COURAGEOUS, TWO -FISTED PRAIRIE RANGER HE COULD TURN TO IN HIS HOUR OF PERIL - TEX WTTSK- WHOSE BLAZING SUNS HAD LONG MADE HIM THE NEMESIS OF KILLERS/ ONCE MORE, TEX RITTER JUMPEO INTO THE FRACAS AND HIS FIGHTING SPIRIT SPELLED DOOM FOR TWO MURDEROUS OWLHOOTS AND ERASED THE STIGMA FROM A MAN THey CALLED- THB COWARD/ AT bURAND FLATS, TEX RITTER STOPS AT THE. UAIIHOUSE TO VISIT SHERIFF BLOCK.' THINGS HAVE BEEN MIGHTY \ THOSE TWO HOMBRES PEACEFUL AROUND THESE JSEEM MIGHTY FAMILIAR PARTS.TEX.' IT'S MIGHTY JtO ME.' I'M CERTAIN I'VE GOOD TO SAY THAT MY — ' ->T ANGLED WITH THEM SHOOTING IKONS ARE GiTTINGy BEFORE KIND OF now x place them.' y i ve heard about those they're shale dawson] murderers.tex.' i don't /like the idea of their (■drifting into dukanp flats i want to keep this town peaceful like.'^ fKAtrm ' I'M KINO OF GLAD I DIDN'T LEAVE TOWN BEFORE SPOKING THEM. THEV'RE THE KIND THAT LIKE TO GIVE IT TO VOU IN THE BACK. I RECKON I'll. TRAIL .-7 - =r x AFTER THEM J 'l| TEX RITTER WESTERN SSBAtS TO ME YOU'VE B£EN AT THE RECEIVING ENP OF - MY FlSTgEFORE.' TEX RITTER WESTERN FOR SEVERAL MOMENTS, THE BOY WAVERS, TRYING TOKEACM * PECISION —AMP THEN. AS IF READING THE MENACE IN THE SO0WLIN6 LOOKS OF SHALE ANP PINE/, HE SHAME-FACEOLY FOLLOWS THEM OUT.' HEH, HEH.' THE KID KNOWS WHAT KINP OF COMPANY HE WANTS TO KEEP.' WE'LL BE SEEING YOU, LAWMAN.' t«X MTTBt WCHttM YOU-VOU '-nIT'S MY ONIV CHANCE MEAN YOU'RE JTD CATCH THEM WITH flOINGTO /THE EVIDENCE.' WE'LL IET THEM IT'S UP TO YOU, JOHNNY, TO HaP ME. 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