(December 1960-January 1961)

Dell, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1960-10-25
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell Exciting Adventure
Editing
Bill Harris

Issue Notes

Last 10 cent issue. Harris confirmed as editor per his biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 29, No.5, May 2018. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Synopsis
The Lone Ranger uses a hammerlock to subdue a knife-wielding thug.
Reprints

Christmas shopping a puzzle? (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

inside front cover; black and white; promo for subscriptions to Dell comics.

The Assassination (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis
Gun smugglers hope to assassinate an important Mexican official to prevent the opening of a Texas Ranger station close to the border.
Reprints

The Murdered Cousin (Table of Contents: 3)

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis
The Lone Ranger must decide if a man killed his cousin to get an inheritance.
Reprints

Intruders in Wild Horse Valley (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis
Tonto has to bring a doctor to Wild Horse Valley after the Lone Ranger is wounded in a fight with a grizzly bear.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Silver's origin referred to.

Buzzard Bait (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
A bank robber trails a sheriff across a desert.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

text story with 1/4 page illustration

Repels Boarders (Table of Contents: 6)

Young Hawk / comic story / 6.5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rex Maxon
Inks
Rex Maxon
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis
Having rescued the Haida captives, Young Hawk and crew fight off the pursuing Tlinglet canoes and return to what remains of their original village.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

part of a continuing storyline

Boys Here's a Swell Way to Make $1 to $5 weekly. (Table of Contents: 7)

Grit / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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

Indexer Notes

ad for Grit newspaper

Arizona Landmarks (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Synopsis
geographical facts about Arizona.

Indexer Notes

inside back cover; black and white.

Nichols "Blue Steels" Are True-Blue Guns of the Old West (Table of Contents: 9)

Nichols / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

back cover; color ad for Nichols Industries toy cap pistols and rifles.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Lone Ranger
  2. 1. Christmas shopping a puzzle?
  3. 2. The Assassination
    The Lone Ranger
  4. 3. The Murdered Cousin
    The Lone Ranger
  5. 4. Intruders in Wild Horse Valley
    The Lone Ranger
  6. 5. Buzzard Bait
  7. 6. Repels Boarders
    Young Hawk
  8. 7. Boys Here's a Swell Way to Make $1 to $5 weekly.
    Grit
  9. 8. Arizona Landmarks
  10. 9. Nichols "Blue Steels" Are True-Blue Guns of the Old West
    Nichols
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