Number 2312: Tom Mix, “Mixacan”

“Bondage in the West” as a title sounds a lot more perverted than it really is. It has to do with a rancher ripping off (and murdering) Mexican laborers working on his ranch.

Tom Mix shows up in disguise...he puts on a sombrero and a fake mustache, and fools the crooked rancher! (The villain must have that peculiar face blindness that shows up often in comic books where characters wear a disguise.)

We hear a lot about illegal aliens nowadays, but this story is from 1949, and people coming into the U.S. from south of the border has been going on since America sliced off pieces of Mexico and made them United States territories, then states. American bad guys, yeah, we see a lot of them, also. Good thing our hero Tom is willing to get into the “Mix” to help fellow human beings!

Art by Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Writer unknown. From Master Comics #105 (1949):

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