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Ace High Western Comic.

The Ace High Western Comic was a short lived story paper published by Gould-Light in the Fifties. This publication featured a newly created Hamilton character - a young cow puncher by the name of Slick Dexter. Slick was 16 years and worked for Old Man Poindexter at the Circle-Bar ranch.

Although Hamilton was undoubtedly best known for his school stories he was no stranger to the Wild West having already created the Rio Kid for the Modern Boy and Packsaddle for the Gem. Shortly after Ace High closed he would go on to publish a western novel The Lone Texan.

Two original issues are available for download via the links on the table below courtesy of Steve Holland, Michael B and Naveed. The other stories are available in reprint format. If you are able to provide scans/photographs of the original publication then please contact me.


Slick’s adventures were reprinted in 1959 by Racecourse Press on behalf of publishers G.T. Ltd of London. Scans can be downloaded via the links on the table below.

 

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Cover Issue Hamilton Story Reprinted

Ace High Western Comic No.1
(January 1954)
 
No Hamilton Story  

Ace High Western Comic No.2
(1st February 1954)
 
The Puncher from Panhandle
[Slick Dexter]
Tales of the Mysterious Traveller
GT Publishers, London
1959 (approx)
Ace High Western Comic No.3
(1st March 1954)
The Man in the Flour Bag 
[Slick Dexter]
Tales of the Mysterious Traveller
GT Publishers, London
1959 (approx)

Ace High Western Comic No.4
(1st April 1954)
 
Ride Him, Cowboy
[Slick Dexter]
Sharp-Shooter Western Album
GT Publishers, London
1959 (approx)
Ace High Western Comic No.5
(1st May 1954)
Gun to Gun! 
[Slick Dexter]
Strange Suspense Stories
GT Publishers, London
1959 (approx)
Ace High Western Comic No.6
(1st June 1954)
Run on the Rope 
[Slick Dexter]
Sharp-Shooter Western Album
GT Publishers, London
1959 (approx)
Ace High Western Comic No.7
(1st July 1954)
From Foe to Friends
[Slick Dexter]
Strange Suspense Stories
GT Publishers, London
1959 (approx)