Casey Ruggles is a Western comic strip written and drawn by Warren Tufts that ran from May 22, 1949 to October 30, 1955. [1]
Casey Ruggles is a Western comic strip written and drawn by Warren Tufts that ran from May 22, 1949 to October 30, 1955. [1]
The Sunday strip was launched May 22, 1949, and the daily strip on September 19, 1949. [2] Until 1950, the Sunday strip and the daily strip both told the same story.
Tufts' ghost artists and assistants were Al Plastino, Edmond Good, Alex Toth and Ruben Moreira. [2] Tufts did not write or draw the Sunday strip between August 31, 1953, and January 30, 1954. The last Tufts' daily was April 3, 1954, and his last Sunday was on September 5, 1954. [3]
The strip continued for a short while with Al Carreño as artist and writer. [2]
Casey Ruggles was an Old West adventurer in California during the Gold Rush. A former sergeant in the U.S. Army, he encountered such historical figures as Kit Carson, William G. Fargo, Millard Fillmore, Jean Lafitte, and Henry Wells. [2]
All of the daily stories by Warren Tufts have been reprinted by Pacific Comics Club or Comics Revue . Comics Revue has also reprinted all of the Sunday's by Warren Tufts through 7 JUNE 1953. The early dailies and Sundays have been reprinted in hardback by Classic Comics Press; two more volumes are planned.
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