The mid-to-late 1930s were a tough years for Zane Grey. It was the middle of the Great Depression so he wasn't getting paid much for his magazine articles, novels or movies. He was also in an ongoing battle with the Internal Revenue Service. When an opportunity came up to make a buck, he took advantage of it.
His agent, Stephen Slesinger came to his with one such opportunity... comics. Grey thought the project might conflict with his image as a serious author, but needed the money so he passed the project on to his son, Romer Zane Grey, who had already been dabbling in the cartoon industry. Romer took the project and ran with it.
This presentation is about Tex Thorne, a "shoot 'em up" cowboy in all his glory. Tex was only around for two years, but he appeared in newspapers, comic books, an illustrated novel and, later, in a radio broadcast.