The Lone Ranger #84

(June 1955)

Play "KE" (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Ghost Riders (Table of Contents: 2)

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Paul S. Newman

Pencils

Tom Gill

Inks

Tom Gill

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)

Synopsis

Outlaws discover a "luminous phosphorus-like salt" in a cave and use it on their clothes to become "Ghost Riders."

Reprints

• in The Lone Ranger (World Distributors, 1953 series) #21
• in The Lone Ranger (Western, 1964 series) #16 (December 1969)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

The Impostor (Table of Contents: 3)

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Paul S. Newman

Pencils

Tom Gill

Inks

Tom Gill

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)

Synopsis

Outlaw Mac James takes discharged Army soldier Ben Thorpe's calvary cape and hat and discharge papers and leaves him unconscious on the railroad tracks.

Reprints

• in The Lone Ranger (World Distributors, 1953 series) #21

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

Maverick King (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tom Gill ?

Inks

Tom Gill ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Tuck Strong; Burt Strong; Slash Doran

Synopsis

A maverick bull stops rustlers from stealing a herd of cattle.

Reprints

• in The Lone Ranger (World Distributors, 1953 series) #21

Indexer Notes

Text story with three illustrations.

[The Giant Turtle] (Table of Contents: 5)

Young Hawk / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Rex Maxon

Inks

Rex Maxon

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The portage is finished!

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Young Hawk; Little Buck; Strong Eagle

Synopsis

A wolverine chases a bear away from Young Hawk's deer meat. Strong Eagle then kills the wolverine. Later, Young Hawk rescues their dog Tumbleweed from a giant snapping turtle.

Indexer Notes

Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois' personal records.
Artwork first credited to Jon Small.

The Gourd Lamp of the Rappahannock Indians (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Chief Red Thunder Cloud of the Catawba Nation (signed)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Synopsis

Facts about Indian gourd lamps.

Indexer Notes

Half text-half art. Red Thunder Cloud (1920-1996) is an actual person, not a pseudonym.

Lone Ranger Fans! (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

The Black Hills (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

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Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Synopsis

Facts about the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white; Half text-half art. Bottom of page contains Dell’s "A Pledge to Parents.”

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Arnold, Schwinn & Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)