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erwin-k:
Ajax/Ferrell was very good at this sort of thing. Of course there may have been legal reasons why the Lone Rider stories got reprinted as just "The Rider." (Not to mention the issues published under the Comics Code Atrocity that had Indians attacking with sticks because the heads of the tomahawks had been whited out. Real laughers.)

But sometimes they would take a story and typeset a different title for it. Then the Indian hero would change from Swift Arrow to Golden Eagle. Or some such.

And MLJ did some recycling of scripts. In one case they redrew a Hangman epic as a Black Hood story without taking into account the differences in the characters' civilian jobs. So Kip Burland stumbles into the middle of an armed robbery. In his police uniform, no less. But he ditches his uniform and perfectly legal pistol to tackle gun waving thugs bare handed. What ever happened to "Halt, or I'll shoot?"

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