...you gotta love it when the comic itself synopsizes the plot!
Now, back to the story...
Now, back to the story...
This never-reprinted tale from Parents Magazine Institute's Calling All Boys #11 (1947) was written by Charles Spain Verral and illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund, both long-time pulp magazine creators who were making the transition to comics as pulps died out.
Eight issues after Granger's premiere, Calling All Boys became Tex Granger, dropping most of the text features to make room for more Granger stories in each issue.
The title only lasted seven issues.
Two inventory stories were published in the back of the final two issues of Parents' longest-running comic, True Comics,
then Tex Granger disappeared into the mists of history...but not before
leaving behind a cinematic legacy...
Within a year of his debut, Granger was made into a movie serial...
...but not without some major changes, including giving him a secret identity as "Masked Rider of the Plains"!
...but not without some major changes, including giving him a secret identity as "Masked Rider of the Plains"!
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