Tex Ritter Western #2

Fawcett's Tex Ritter Western #2 from 1950 puts the smiling, broad-hatted cowboy star front and center in a cheerful photo portrait, his yellow checked shirt and blue neckerchief radiating that warm, approachable charm that made Ritter a household name. Tucked into the lower corner, a small illustrated vignette shows a rider on horseback at full gallop, hinting at the Western action waiting inside. The promised story, "The Vanishing Varmints," sounds like exactly the kind of frontier mystery that kept ten-cent comics flying off the spinner rack.