(Master Comics 008-011, 1940-1941)
A regular-style Old West outlaw chief with the somewhat lyrical name of Santos Figaro, the White Arrow's main distinction is that he was a multi-issue rather than one-off foe of Marshal Buck Jones.
Jones himself is far more interesting than poor Santos Figaro, being a real-life cowboy actor cast as an Old West lawman (probably - I think I've mentioned before that the media of the 1930s-40s doesn't draw a lot of distinction between the Old West and the contemporary West and that sometimes the only way you find out that a series is one or the other is 50 instalments in when the protagonist hops a plane to Chicago). Jones replaced former marshal Bill Crane in Master Comics 006 in a sadly lost-to-history adventure that might contain clues as to whether he was the Buck Jones or just a Buck Jones.
Regardless, the "Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal" feature closed its doors after the real Buck Jones died in 1942. Given that, it is somewhat ironic that Master Comics was one of the books to eventually carry the adventures of Old West cowboy Tom Mix based on the Western actor who had died in 1940.
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