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Casey Ruggles is a Western comic strip written and drawn by Warren Tufts that ran from 1949 to 1954.
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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. This story is not yet made into a movie. Nor has it yet been made into a Heavy Metal concept album.
Episode guide
Reprints
All of the daily stories except for one week have been reprinted by Pacific Comics Club or Comics Revue. The first few Sunday stories were reprinted in color in Comics Revue.