Jim Hatfield, TEXAS RANGER comics: "The Black Inferno" (1940)

Ranger Jim Hatfield, who starred in all 206 issues of the Texas Rangers pulp between 1936 and 1958, also crossed over into Exciting Comics. This one is from issue #1, from April 1940, and was gifted to us by "rolster" via comicbookplus. 

The Sword of ZWORDO (1958)

This one's from the short-lived Mad-wannabe Zany, issue #2 dated Dec. 1958. Narfstar kindly provided it to comicbookplus. Pencils and inks are by Carl Burgos. Yeah, it's really bad, but how many comic book Zorro parodies do you see?

"Woodman's Test" by MICKEY SPILLANE (1942)

Mickey Spillane drops in again, this time from the third issue of 4Most Comics, dated Summer 1942. Thanks to OtherEric for the ComicBookPlus scans.

JEAN LAFITTE "Prince of Pirates" (1941)

This "true life" story appeared in Choice Comics #1, from Dec. 1941. Thanks to Phil Barnhart for sharing it on ComicBookPlus. Tentative art credits point to Pagsilang Isip. 

JOHN CARTER OF MARS in The Funnies (1939)

John Carter made his first comic book appearance in The Funnies #30, back in 1939. The art is credited to Jim Gary. I found it on ComicBookPlus a year or two ago, but it has since been removed, no doubt due to copyright issues. Issue 31 was not there, nor was 33, but I was able to snag 32 and 34, so I have only snapshots of the early part of the story. We'll likely see the others somewhere down the Almanack Trail.

"Futuro Kidnaps Hitler and Takes Him to Hades!" by Rudy Palais (1942)

I've come across a lot of truly bizarre stuff on ComicBookPlus, but this one takes the cake. It's Rudy Palais again (we saw him last week with Devildogs Three) and this one is even better! The cover and ad way down below are believed to be by Reed Crandall. At the end of the story we're promised another adventures of Futuro in the next issue, but there was no next issues, robbing poor Futuro of his promising future. It's from Great Comics #3, Jan. 1942, and it's a rangerhouse scan. 

FRANK FRAZETTA Knows Your America! Do you? It's KING PHILLIP'S WAR (1946)

Here's a different looking style from Mr. F. Looks to me like a guy named Kurtzman sneaked into his studio at night. Anyway, it's from Treasure Comics #8, Aug-Sept 1946, and comes to us from comicbookplus via JonTheScanner.