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Pages: 52
Editing: Seymour Schneid (editor); Jack Byrne (managing editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1942 series) #47 Edit Cover
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Firehair / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Bob Lubbers (signed)
Inks:
Bob Lubbers (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier
Characters:
Firehair [Lynn Cabot]

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Cover and indicia title is "Rangers Comics".

The Big Six of the Comics!
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Firehair / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is the price we will pay for your furs, not one penny more!
Characters:
Firehair [Lynn Cabot]; Lil (dance-hall girl; impersonates Firehair); Little Ax; Bear Claw; Red Eagle; Diggers

The Strange Case of the Absent Floor
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The Secret Files of Dr. Drew / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Good evening. Interested in the supernatural, eh?
Characters:
Doctor Drew (intro); Sgt. Dawson (intro); Adam Wainwright; Lucy Wainwright
Synopsis:
Dr. Drew examines a mysterious 13th floor of the Wainwright building.
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

Drawn in Eisner-SPIRIT style through issue #56.

Keith Chandler : There has been much discussion to-and-fro regarding Will Eisner's possible involvement in the art. Stylistically this is Eisner through and through, but ambiguity remains.

Davy Crockett (Part Two)
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World Adventurers / text article / 3 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (spot illustrations)
Inks:
? (spot illustrations)
Colors:
? (spot illustrations)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Travis replied with a cannon shot...
Characters:
Davy Crockett; Col. William Barrett Travis; Col. Jim Bowie; General Santa Anna; Colonel Fannin; James Butler Bonham

Indexer Notes

Part 2 of the story of the Alamo

[no title indexed]
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Jan of the Jungle / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Coleman Hart (credited)
Pencils:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:children; jungle
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Though Jan of the Jungle had dwelt in the deepest forest more years...
Characters:
Jan of the Jungle; Kaang the great ape

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Glory Forbes / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Bob Hickok (credited) (house name)
Pencils:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:crime; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Kalamanka gang wanted him -- Dead! Dodd Mandon had played the rackets...
Characters:
Glory Forbes (private investigator); Dodd Mandon; Marie Mandon; Sanders (crook); Faker Jones (crook); Manky (crook)

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Sky Rangers / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
R. W. Colt (credited)
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The radio operator tensed as he repeated his call,...
Characters:
Captain Morgan (leader of the Sky Rangers); Pete; Jed Graham

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I Confess / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
? [as Myra Maxwell] (credited)
Pencils:
Ruben Moreira (signed)
Inks:
Ruben Moreira (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Again, unseen audience, I, Myra, your radio voice of conscience...
Characters:
Myra (hostess of radio program); Edith; Ellen; Le Canif (crook)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Firehair
  2. The Big Six of the Comics!
  3. ["This is the price we will pay for your furs, not one penny more!"]
    Firehair
  4. The Strange Case of the Absent Floor
    The Secret Files of Dr. Drew
  5. Davy Crockett (Part Two)
    World Adventurers
  6. ["Though Jan of the Jungle had dwelt in the deepest forest more years..."]
    Jan of the Jungle
  7. ["The Kalamanka gang wanted him -- Dead! Dodd Mandon had played the rackets..."]
    Glory Forbes
  8. ["The radio operator tensed as he repeated his call,..."]
    Sky Rangers
  9. ["Again, unseen audience, I, Myra, your radio voice of conscience..."]
    I Confess
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Issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Keith Chandler
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Mark Gordon
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Patrick Shaughnessy
  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Len Wolinsky
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