The Lone Ranger #105 [10¢]
(March 1957)

Dell, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Trail to the Texas Rangers (Table of Contents)

The Lone Ranger / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks
Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors
Sam Savitt (painting)
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger
Synopsis
Lone Ranger leads US Calvary charge
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4, August 2002; the original indexer credited Hank Hartman with the painting.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Ways of the West / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A cowboy's saddle blanket has often been a bed blanket...
Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Synopsis
multi-panel illustrated article on saddle blankets
Reprints

Indexer Notes

inside front cover; black and white; script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman’s personal records.

The Trail to the Texas Rangers (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; Dan Reid
Synopsis
The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Dan Reid return to the Texas Panhandle to attend the dedication ceremony of a new Texas Ranger station that will be named Fort Reid. Outlaws kidnap Dan Reid after the ceremony.

Indexer Notes

references to Lone Ranger's origin; Like his bullets; the Lone Ranger's horse Silver's horseshoes are made of silver; script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

The Hard Lesson (Table of Contents: 3)

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis
Schoolteacher Enoch Turner has come west to teach the Blackfoot Indians to read and write. The tribe's medicine man is not happy and forces him from the village.

Indexer Notes

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

True Gold (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
Prospector Hal Baker has to decide whether to lead a posse to a canyon to capture bank robbers and possibly lose his gold claim there.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Rex Maxon
Inks
Rex Maxon
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
You are right, Little Buck...
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis
Shipwrecked on the Yucatan peninsula, Young Hawk, Little Buck, and a boy named Atan that they rescued from an island, journey inland across a desert, finding ancient ruins, then a thriving Mayan city.

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 Cedar Bird (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; animal
Synopsis
Facts about the Cedar bird.

We Love Those Cough Drops... (Table of Contents: 7)

Smith Brothers Cough Drops / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?; typeset

Indexer Notes

illustrated ad for Smith Brothers Cough Drops

It’s Yours Free! (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Lone Ranger

Indexer Notes

inside back cover; black and white; promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic; also Dell’s Pledge to Parents.

New Fruit-Flavor, Fruit-Color Trix (Table of Contents: 9)

Trix / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photograph)
Inks
? (photograph)
Colors
? (photograph)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

back cover; illustrated ad for Trix cereal.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Trail to the Texas Rangers
    The Lone Ranger
  2. 1. ["A cowboy's saddle blanket has often been a bed blanket..."]
    Ways of the West
  3. 2. The Trail to the Texas Rangers
    The Lone Ranger
  4. 3. The Hard Lesson
    The Lone Ranger
  5. 4. True Gold
  6. 5. ["You are right, Little Buck..."]
    Young Hawk
  7. 6. The Cedar Bird
  8. 7. We Love Those Cough Drops...
    Smith Brothers Cough Drops
  9. 8. It’s Yours Free!
  10. 9. New Fruit-Flavor, Fruit-Color Trix
    Trix
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