The Lone Ranger
#59
(May 1953)
Dell,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
The Lone Ranger / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ernest Nordli (signed) (painting)
- Inks
- Ernest Nordli (signed) (painting)
- Colors
- Ernest Nordli (signed) (painting)
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Tonto
- Synopsis
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto sneak up on a pair of outlaws waiting in ambush on the trail below.
[no title indexed]
Whitman / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These Whitman books are just for fun!
- Characters
- Howdy Doody (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; color. Illustrated ad for Whitman activity books.
Homer with a High Hat
The Lone Ranger / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
- Synopsis
- In an attempt to get Homer Potts, her eastern lawyer uncle, to stay and help her father save his ranch, Cindy Potts has the sheriff put him in jail. But Homer Potts is mistaken for a counterfeiter and is taken by the Billy-Be-Hung gang to their hideout.
- Reprints
-
in The Lone Ranger (Consolidated Press, 1954 series) #5 (October 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.
Summer Dawn
The Lone Ranger / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
- Synopsis
- Summer Dawn, daughter of Chief Storm Cloud, rides with the Lone Ranger and Tonto to Fort Clark to warn them of an Indian attack, but they are too late.
- Reprints
- in The Lone Ranger (Consolidated Press, 1954 series) #5 (October 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.
The Lost Gold Mine
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jacumba; Seri
- Synopsis
- A young boy, Jacumba, searches for the lost gold of the Santa Clara Mission.
Indexer Notes
Text story with three illustrations. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois’ personal records.
Artwork first credited to Jon Small with a question mark.
[no title indexed]
Young Hawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bear Killer --- look astern!
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Young Hawk; Little Buck
- Synopsis
- After recovering the Sea People's canoes from the Waikish, Young Hawk and Little Buck's canoe becomes separated from the others during a storm. They paddle up the Rogue River in Oregon where they abandon their canoe and start eastward up the valley.
Indexer Notes
Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois' personal records. Prior unofficial title "Eastward Journey."
Artwork first credited to Jon Small.
Cattle Rustlers
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Facts about modern cattle rustling.
Indexer Notes
Half-art, half-text.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Lone Ranger -
1.
["These Whitman books are just for fun!"]
Whitman -
2.
Homer with a High Hat
The Lone Ranger -
3.
Summer Dawn
The Lone Ranger -
4.
The Lost Gold Mine
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5.
["Bear Killer --- look astern!"]
Young Hawk -
6.
Cattle Rustlers
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7.
["Free! A Dell Comics Club lucky penny piece..."]
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8.
["Get 'em at your grocer's now!"]
Wheaties
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- Steinar Ådland
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
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