(Courtesy of Ken Jones) Page 3 (Courtesy of Ken Jones) Back Cover - Page 4 Was the name Hollywood Hot Shots purposely used to confuse people into thinkin' the group was the well known Hoosier Hot Shots?  Les Adams notes that Gene Howard appeared in four Fred Scott westerns from 1939 - CODE OF THE FEARLESS, IN OLD MONTANA, RIDIN' THE TRAIL and TWO-GUN TROUBADOR.

Jack Ingram and Ted Adams touring in the early 1940s. (Courtesy of Ken Jones) The color photo above is about 26" x 22", and author and movie researcher Ken Jones had this framed and displayed. An interesting tidbit is the wanted poster with the names used by Jack Ingram and Ted Adams in their traveling stage show circa 1940. Les Adams provides more details: The poses and costumes come from Bob Steele's DURANGO VALLEY RAIDERS (A. W. Hackel/Republic, 1938).  I knew I had seen Ingram in that arrow-pocket shirt somewhere, and ran a search on titles they were in together and DV RAIDERS came up early, and struck a chord with me. Took a gander at it last night and there they both were --- Ingram in a non-typical shirt for a villain and Adams in a costume and hat that nearly duplicates what Johnny Mack Brown wore later at Universal. Neither ever played a role as 'Sundown Rogers' (Ingram) or 'Ace Hawkins' (Adams).  Even more interesting is that in my entire database on westerns and serials, I find no film that ever used Sundown Rogers or Ace Hawkins as a name for any character. None. Zip. Nada. I suspect they performed in some kind of stage skit with Sundown Rogers and Ace Hawkins as the character names.  And they were able to find two names, before the age of computer searches, that had never been used in a western is amazing. Thanks to Les Adams for info on the Ingram / Adams show. Below are a newspaper article and ad for Ingram and Adams as "The Two Best Bad Men of Western Pictures", in their "Showdown" stage show at a theater in Tulare, California in 1940: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88665502/tulare-advance-register/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88395075/western-movie-badmen-jack-ingram-and/