I recall reading about the editors of The Texas Ranger, but forget where I read it (Rebel Visions?). But reading the back cover of Charlatan #1 (1963), it states Lieuen Adkins for 1963, but I don't recognize this name. Anyone have any info? I know Frank Stack and Gilbert Shelton both were editors on TR also...
Adkins died in the 1980s. The Ranger guys and a bunch of old Texas folks from that era lived in a building that they called "the ghetto". If you do a google search for "gilbert shelton" +helmer +ghetto, their webpages should turn up. The old ghetto people are still in contact thru the web...and there is probably an obit for Adkins on their pages.
Looks like there was a website once at www.texasghetto.com, but it's no longer up. Here's a reference I found in a book that's on my Amazon want list.
http://books.google.com/books?id=nE-Ia7JMq3YC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=gilbert+shelton+ghetto+texas+ranger&source=web&ots=7RD5Dskeaw&sig=n3TOun6b-YNS07hqEjbGI3xF6pE
Pat Brown did a strip that was in the Ranger of Wonder Warthog as a baby called Wonder Wartpiglet. It might have been reprinted in Charlatan. I guess that's where Archie comics got the idea for Little Archie...and the Muppets got the idea for Muppet Babies. I think Jim Hensen was at Harvard then...Didn't he work on the Harvard Lampoon?