Rangers Comics #53
Fiction House
United States
- Published
- June 1950
- Page count
- 52
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/8301
Credits
- Editing
- Seymour S. Schneid (Editor)
J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
Issue contents
Cover
Prisoners of Devil's Pass
(Firehair)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Firehair
- Genre
- Western-frontier
- Characters
- Firehair
Credits
- Art
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Reprint history
Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of H. John Edwards' Firehair #8.
1"Pay less - get the best!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Luxury Seat Cover Co.
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
2"You should be proud and gay, Red Fawn. For today you will be betrothed to Black Hawk, mighty chief of the Pawnees."
Featuring
- Feature
- Firehair
- Genre
- Western-frontier
- Characters
- Firehair [Lynn Cabot]; Red Fawn; Tahama; Black Hawk; Spotted Calf; Bruno; Little Ax; Lone Wolf
Credits
- Script
- ? [as John Starr]
- Pencils
- Gus Schrotter?
? (Iger Shop) - Inks
- Jay Disbrow?
? (Iger Shop) - Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Synopsis
Firehair helps Red Fawn and Spotted Calf to get engaged, but Black Hawk has a plan to wed Red Fawn.
Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
3"Far back in time, before the dawn of history, most of the earth was covered with water... and the only dry land, we are told, was in those islets upon which crawled the primordial life of that era."
Featuring
- Feature
- The Secret Files of Dr. Drew
- Genre
- Detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dr. Drew; Jon Le Claire; Brian Leslie; Clarisse Leslie; Elusa
Credits
- Script
- Marilyn Mercer
- Art
- Jerry Grandenetti (signed)
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- Abe Kanegson
Synopsis
Jon Le Claire discovers the city of Elusa under the sea.
4"Oil!... Bottomless pools that stretch for miles under the Arabian sands, was the lure that drew Captain Morgan and his friends to that land of mystery, oil and..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Sky Rangers
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Captain Morgan; Mr. Graham; Prince Muslh Ud-Abu Hiram Be-Har; Kalma; Sheik Heille; Pete
Credits
- Script
- ? [as R. W. Colt]
- Art
- Giovanni Benvenuti
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Synopsis
Sheik Heille plans to swindle Prince Be-Har out of his oil fields.
5"Stamps"
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
6"The kraal of the Arundai tribe was taboo for jungle strangers!"
Featuring
- Feature
- King of the Congo
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- King (last appearance); Jingo; Sharp-Eye; Rengo; Whiskers
Credits
- Script
- ? [as Nils Van Duren]
- Pencils
- Edmund Good ?
- Inks
- John Forte ? (Iger Shop)
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Synopsis
Crooks have a plan to steal the treasure of the Arundai people.
Notes
Last appearance of King of the Congo.
7"The dread stampede in the dark!"
Featuring
- Genre
- Western-frontier
- Characters
- Curley; Jim; Cherokee; The Kid; Bud; Springtime
Credits
- Author
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Synopsis
The ranchhands deal with a stampede and the aftermath.
Notes
Conclusion.
8"Knock! Knock! This is Myra, your voice of conscience, bringing you another dramatic true story of a girl who weighed love against justice and made her choice."
Featuring
- Feature
- I Confess
- Genre
- Detective-mystery
- Characters
- Myra Maxwell; Ruth; Ed Sandar; Chang; Joe
Credits
- Script
- ? [as Myra Maxwell]
- Pencils
- Ken Battefield ?
- Inks
- David Heames ?
[shop] - Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Synopsis
Ruth tells of her escape from China.
Notes
Last appearance.
9"The big six of the comics!"
Featuring
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sheena; Tiger Girl [Princess Vishnu]; Wambi; Firehair
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- various
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
typeset
Notes
Covers of Jungle Comics #125, Jumbo Comics #135, Fight Comics #68, Wambi Jungle Boy #7, Rangers Comics #53, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #7.
10"All of us have greed, in varying degrees - but this is a tale of a man who was determined to become the greatest hunter in the world, who vowed that none but the best of trophies would adorn the walls of his hunting den..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Jan of the Jungle
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Jan of the Jungle; Prince Aba Han
Credits
- Script
- ? [as Coleman Hart]
- Art
- Enrico Bagnoli
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Synopsis
Prince Aba Han returns from a hunt with a valuable thing he had lost.
11"I will train you at home for good jobs in radio-television"
Featuring
- Feature
- Mr. J. E. Smith
Credits
- Script
- J. E. Smith
- Art
- ? (photograph)
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
12"Do the best science knows for you to do to grow more virile hair"
Featuring
- Feature
- Hair Research
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
13"Reduce fat! Up to 5 lbs. a week"
Featuring
- Feature
- American Healthaids Co.
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ? (photograph)
- Colours
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
Back cover.
Notes
On sale date from a notice in the previous issue.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.