11 Facts About Red Ryder

Red Ryder was a Western comic strip created by Stephen Slesinger and artist Fred Harman which served as the basis for a wide array of character merchandising.

At the time, Slesinger had scripted a new comic strip called Red Ryder and was seeking an outstanding Western artist with knowledge of the authentic period details and who had a natural gift for drawing scenes from dramatic perspectives.

Slesinger brought Harman to New York and worked with him for a year before Red Ryder was ready to be launched through a carefully planned rollout from comic pages, to movies and radio shows, contests, merchandising tie-ins and personal appearances by Fred Harman at charity benefits, schools, and civic and Red Ryder youth enrichment events.

Red Ryder became the longest running and most popular comic character of the Western genre in movies, radio, comic strips, comic books, mass market retailing and the collectors' market.

Today Red Ryder has some of the longest business relationships in the history of the licensing industry.

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Red Ryder had two topper strips on the Sunday page: Little Beaver and Red Ryder's Corral of Western Lingo .

Altogether, Red Ryder Comics enjoyed a first run, for a total of 151 issues, ending in 1957, one of the longest continuous newsstand runs in the U S, for any Western comic.

However, by far, the largest circulation for Red Ryder Comics are those produced in Spanish and distributed throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Red Ryder was sold to a regional sponsor, Langendorf Bread, and after four months was no longer heard in the East.

Red Ryder appeared in a 1940 12-chapter serial, followed by a series of 27 movies .

The last four Red Ryder movies starred Jim Bannon as Red Ryder and Don Kay Reynolds as Little Beaver.