Number 2574: Bullet-heads from outer space

What would the world — including America — do without Spurs Jackson and his Space Vigilantes? When it comes to Spurs Jackson and his fellow cowpokes on the ranch, they keep running up against creatures and characters from space. You know Spurs and friends are the good guys because they shoot straight whether their adversaries be local or from other planets.

Walter Gibson, who made his living for years churning out two Shadow novels a month for The Shadow pulp magazine, created Space Western. He wrote the story I am showing today. Here's hoping Gibson didn't get ripped off. (After all, “the Shadow knows!”) I believe that Charlton was a shoestring operation, and it looks to me that over the years they did most of their comic books on the cheap. That is my opinion, of course.

Stan Campbell did the artwork, and he did a good job mixing the old West scenarios with drawings of flying saucers, and in this story, creatures with bullet heads and long fangs. It is from Space Western Comics #41 (1952).