"Unusual Tales", a series presenting Steve Ditko's comics from 1957 to 1959 that are in the public domain.
ROCKY LANE'S BLACK JACK #25 [1958] includes the 5-page Black Jack story "Storm's Warning", which shows that the horse has some very useful weather forecasting abilities, and keeps quite busy with a young friend when not working with Rocky. A cute little story, I especially like the lightning storm on the first page.
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FYI: The Rocky Lane comic book was originally published by Fawcett Publishing, beginning in 1949. At that time, Allan Lane had been a Republic western star for some time. He had been in serials, before taking off the Red Ryder role from Wild Bill Elliott. When the RR series was discontinued, Lane was featured in his own series as a federal marshal, using the name "Rocky Lane." His horse Blackjack had formerly been Red Ryder's horse Thunder. Lane's western series ended in 1953. At this time, Fawcett had been involved in a lawsuit with National DC Comics over whether Captain Marvel ("Shazam") was a copyright infringement of Superman. When the courts ruled in DC's favor, Fawcett had discontinue many of their comic magazines, including the Rocky Lane series. Lash LaRue, which had been a Fawcett comic,was also obtained by the Charlton publishing company. Both the Lash LaRue and Rocky Lane comics were continued, even their movies were no longer showing at the local movie theaters.
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