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Casey Ruggles Sunday #13 by Warren Tufts from 8/14/1949 Half Page Size ! Year #1
This is a _CASEY RUGGLES SUNDAY PAGE_ by WARREN TUFTS. Wonderful Artwork! Very Rare! and Hard To Find! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1949. SIZE: ~11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL PAGE OR TABLOID FULL PAGE). PAPER: SOME HAVE ... Read More
This is a _CASEY RUGGLES SUNDAY PAGE_ by WARREN TUFTS. Wonderful Artwork! Very Rare! and Hard To Find! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1949. SIZE: ~11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL PAGE OR TABLOID FULL PAGE). PAPER: SOME HAVE LIGHT TANNING, LIGHT WATER STAINS, OR SMALL ARCHIVAL REPAIRS, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total combined postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comicstrips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
Casey Ruggles
Casey Ruggles is a Western comic strip written and drawn by Warren Tufts that ran from 1949 to 1954.
Publication History
The Sunday strip was launched May 22, 1949, and the daily strip on September 19, 1949. 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. 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.
The strip continued for a short while with Al Carreño as artist and writer.
Characters and Story
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.
Episode Guide Daily and Sunday
The Trek to California
daily 1950
Black Barney
The Hard Times of Pancho and Pecos
Aquila
The spanish Mine
The Whisperer
The Pomo Uprising
Warren Tufts' Casey Ruggles (May 15, 1951)
daily 1951
Old Ancient
In Old Los Angeles
King of the Horsemen
Juan Soto
Jenny
daily 1952
Sidney Town
Death Valley Gold
The Growlersburgh Church
The Babysitter
Smiley Sweet
Miss Hawks
daily 1953
A Real Nice Guy
The Marchioness of Grofnek
The Highwayman
Leaves of Strength
The spanish Pearl Galleon
Santy Claus
daily 1954
The Willits Family
Penelope's Gold
Tuftscaseyruggles.jpg
Sunday stories
1950
The Emperor of Tilly Valley
Murietta
1951
Silver Belle
The Return of Black Barney
Captain Beauregarde
The Fairy Godmother
1952
Apache Convention
The Trial of Kit Fox
Wedding Bells
River Steamboat War
1953
Yagali
A Man of Peace
1954
The California Express Co.
spanish Doubloons
Warren Tufts
Born Chester Warren Tufts
December 12, 1925
Fresno, California
Died July 6, 1982 (aged 56)
Placerville, California
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
Casey Ruggles
Lance
Chester Warren Tufts (December 12, 1925 â July 6, 1982), best known as Warren Tufts, was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles, which ran from 1949 to 1954.
Comic Strips
In 1949, Warren Tufts created the comic strip Casey Ruggles, set against the backdrop of the Old West. Distributed by United Feature, launching May 22, 1949, it initially appeared only in the Sunday comics, but when the story became popular, a daily strip was added.Because Tufts was a perfectionist who often worked 80-hour weeks, he had trouble meeting deadlines, even though he had help from numerous assistants and ghosts: Nick Cardy, Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Alex Toth.
As Casey Ruggles' popularity grew, Tufts received an offer from a major television studio to produce a Casey Ruggles TV show. However, United Feature nixed the offer on the grounds that a TV show would make the strip less popular. In anger, Tufts left United Feature in 1954, and Casey Ruggles ended shortly afterward, as the replacement artist, Al Carreño, apparently could not maintain reader interest. Tufts' contract with the syndicate required that they be given first refusal on his next strip, so he created The Lone Spaceman, a science-fiction Lone Ranger parody he was sure United Feature would refuse. After the syndicate did, Tufts reconsidered the strip's value and self-syndicated it. He then created, wrote, drew and self-syndicated one of the last and full-page comic strips, the Old West cavalry adventure Lance, which comics critic Bill Blackbeard called "the best of the page-high adventure strips undertaken after the 1930s".
Comic Books
However, the job of not only writing and drawing but also traveling around the country from city to city to sell the strip proved daunting, and in 1960, Tufts left the comic strip field. He drew some comic books for Gold Key Comics, including Korak, Son of Tarzan, The Pink Panther, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan and Wagon Train, but the fast pace and low pay of the comic book industry at that time kept him from doing his best work.
He also drew an adult comic book, Jack and the Beanstalk, and wrote and illustrated a serialized story for Sports Flying magazine.
Television
On TV, he lent his voice, lips and artistic talents to Cambria Studios' production of the Syncro-Vox series Captain Fathom (1965), and is credited as story director on Hanna-Barbera's ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) and Challenge of the Super Friends (1978). He also played the character Gator in the "Dos Pinos" episode of the TV series The Westerner (1960).
He was killed in 1982, in the crash of an airplane of his own design that he was piloting. He was living in El Dorado County, California, at the time.
Please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2 - 7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
Casey Ruggles
Casey Ruggles is a Western comic strip written and drawn by Warren Tufts that ran from 1949 to 1954.
Publication History
The Sunday strip was launched May 22, 1949, and the daily strip on September 19, 1949. 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. 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.
The strip continued for a short while with Al Carreño as artist and writer.
Characters and Story
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.
Episode Guide Daily and Sunday
The Trek to California
daily 1950
Black Barney
The Hard Times of Pancho and Pecos
Aquila
The spanish Mine
The Whisperer
The Pomo Uprising
Warren Tufts' Casey Ruggles (May 15, 1951)
daily 1951
Old Ancient
In Old Los Angeles
King of the Horsemen
Juan Soto
Jenny
daily 1952
Sidney Town
Death Valley Gold
The Growlersburgh Church
The Babysitter
Smiley Sweet
Miss Hawks
daily 1953
A Real Nice Guy
The Marchioness of Grofnek
The Highwayman
Leaves of Strength
The spanish Pearl Galleon
Santy Claus
daily 1954
The Willits Family
Penelope's Gold
Tuftscaseyruggles.jpg
Sunday stories
1950
The Emperor of Tilly Valley
Murietta
1951
Silver Belle
The Return of Black Barney
Captain Beauregarde
The Fairy Godmother
1952
Apache Convention
The Trial of Kit Fox
Wedding Bells
River Steamboat War
1953
Yagali
A Man of Peace
1954
The California Express Co.
spanish Doubloons
Warren Tufts
Born Chester Warren Tufts
December 12, 1925
Fresno, California
Died July 6, 1982 (aged 56)
Placerville, California
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
Casey Ruggles
Lance
Chester Warren Tufts (December 12, 1925 â July 6, 1982), best known as Warren Tufts, was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles, which ran from 1949 to 1954.
Comic Strips
In 1949, Warren Tufts created the comic strip Casey Ruggles, set against the backdrop of the Old West. Distributed by United Feature, launching May 22, 1949, it initially appeared only in the Sunday comics, but when the story became popular, a daily strip was added.Because Tufts was a perfectionist who often worked 80-hour weeks, he had trouble meeting deadlines, even though he had help from numerous assistants and ghosts: Nick Cardy, Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Alex Toth.
As Casey Ruggles' popularity grew, Tufts received an offer from a major television studio to produce a Casey Ruggles TV show. However, United Feature nixed the offer on the grounds that a TV show would make the strip less popular. In anger, Tufts left United Feature in 1954, and Casey Ruggles ended shortly afterward, as the replacement artist, Al Carreño, apparently could not maintain reader interest. Tufts' contract with the syndicate required that they be given first refusal on his next strip, so he created The Lone Spaceman, a science-fiction Lone Ranger parody he was sure United Feature would refuse. After the syndicate did, Tufts reconsidered the strip's value and self-syndicated it. He then created, wrote, drew and self-syndicated one of the last and full-page comic strips, the Old West cavalry adventure Lance, which comics critic Bill Blackbeard called "the best of the page-high adventure strips undertaken after the 1930s".
Comic Books
However, the job of not only writing and drawing but also traveling around the country from city to city to sell the strip proved daunting, and in 1960, Tufts left the comic strip field. He drew some comic books for Gold Key Comics, including Korak, Son of Tarzan, The Pink Panther, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan and Wagon Train, but the fast pace and low pay of the comic book industry at that time kept him from doing his best work.
He also drew an adult comic book, Jack and the Beanstalk, and wrote and illustrated a serialized story for Sports Flying magazine.
Television
On TV, he lent his voice, lips and artistic talents to Cambria Studios' production of the Syncro-Vox series Captain Fathom (1965), and is credited as story director on Hanna-Barbera's ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) and Challenge of the Super Friends (1978). He also played the character Gator in the "Dos Pinos" episode of the TV series The Westerner (1960).
He was killed in 1982, in the crash of an airplane of his own design that he was piloting. He was living in El Dorado County, California, at the time.
Please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2 - 7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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