1950 Series
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Dates: October 1950 – January 1954
Number of Issues Published: 20 (#1 – #20)
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Publication Type: magazine
Numbering continues with Tex Ritter Western (Charlton, 1954 series) #21
1954 Series
Publisher: Charlton
Publication Dates: March 1954 – May 1959
Number of Issues Published: 26 (#21 – #46)
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine
Numbering continues from Tex Ritter Western (Fawcett, 1950 series) #20
Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database
Tex Ritter began strong in comic books at Fawcett with #1 in October ‘50 and finished with some dreadful art by an unknown “artist” at Charlton in #46 (May ‘59). Tex’s starring B-western days were over in 1945, so the comics were trading on his lasting popularity through TV reruns of his Grand National, Monogram, Columbia, Universal and PRC series.
Fawcett started with photo covers, front and back, through #5. Some older photos were used but a new group shot expressly for comic book covers was taken in late ‘50. The front photo-covers continued through #21, but Charlton took over the publishing of TEX RITTER WESTERN with #21 (when Fawcett folded in the Fall of ‘53) and went to art-drawn covers with #22, although b/w movie scenes were featured on their back covers til #36 (#26 even shows Johnny Mack Brown with Tex).
Tex’s horse was White Flash, as in his films, but, for whatever reason, Fawcett gave Tex a dog, Fury, that he never had in the movies. After #22 at Charlton, Fury came and went as needed.
In the beginning, artwork was by Tony Tallirico who captured the looks and essence of Ritter. By #18, Bud Thomson, and occasionally Sheldon Moldoff, took over and the art started to wane badly. Stan Campbell assumed art chores when Charlton took over with #21. His work was rushed, as most Charlton artists’ work was as the company paid poorly, and Tex’s appearance varied throughout the issue, often looking quite pudgy faced. Campbell improved slightly as the issues went on but he was gone by #32 with shoddy artwork following by the teams of Dick Giordano/Vince Alascia and Charles Nicholas/Sal Trapani. Fawcett reprints had also started filtering in with #28 (#30, 31 were all reprint material). This combination of hurried, poor art and reprints render these later TEX RITTER WESTERN issues worthless to Ritter fans. The final issue (#41) is just terrible, making Tex look like an unrecognizable 19 or 20 year old kid.
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Thanks, i’ve made new links. I am afraid it’s my own fault, i wanted to make some free space and deleted some maps which aren’t useful anymore, i think i deleted most of the 2018 updates also.
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