(October-December 1954)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Comic
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Silver / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Inks
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Colors
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Genre
- western-frontier; animal
- Characters
- Silver
- Synopsis
- Silver approaches in foreground in dry grass between the narrow rock arroyo walls as two bemused men stand in the background at the edge of the arroyo's high rock top, showing their backs, the man on the right holds a rifle in his right hand, the other arm outstretched to his companion to his left who has his left arm akimbo and his right arm raised hand to his hat brim. Yellow sky and brown clouds.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).
Prairie Fire
text article / 1 page
- Script
- George Haas
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Page 1496 of Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, SERIALS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS states, "WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY. Prairie fire. (In the Lone Ranger's famous horse hi-yo Silver, Oct.-Dec. 1954, p. [2] of cover) Appl. Author: Western Print. & Litho. Co., employer for hire of George Haas. © Western Print. & Litho. Co.; 2Sep54; B5-28612." ~Dave Porta
Silver's First Swim
Silver / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- animal; western-frontier
- Characters
- Lonnie, Jeanne, the Lone Ranger, Silver, Cheyenne horse hunters, Moussa mother of Silver, Sylvan sire of Silver
- Synopsis
- Silver helps a colt who falls in the water. Ranger tells kids how yearling Silver and mother Moussa hid from Cheyenne in an arroyo, thence to the river, into which Sylvan drives five mares and himself jumps the arroyo's high rock top, fleeing the party of Cheyenne.
Indexer Notes
Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott states: "Silver's First Swim. 9p. For Hi-Yo Silver, November issue. Sent March 19, 1954." ~Dave Porta
Art identification by Dave Porta, 4 January, 2013.
Silver Strikes Back
Silver / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- animal; western-frontier
- Characters
- Lonnie, Jeanne, the Lone Ranger, Silver, Apache horse hunter Keenay
- Synopsis
- Lonnie and Jeanne alert all of a cougar they found who has been following the wagon train killing livestock, Ranger removes Silver's saddle, who tracks and fights it, one of the pioneers fells it with a rifle. Ranger tells kids how wild Silver once tracked a man, Apache horse hunter Keenay. Keenay rebuilds his teepee lodge, spies colts Scamper and Silver, captures Scamper, uses him to lure Silver, who defeats the traps and frees Scamper, tracks Keenay, destroys the new lodge. Keenay's next trap is foiled, too, and he ends up plucking porcupine quills from his skin, while Silver remains free.
Indexer Notes
Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott states: "Silver Strikes Back. 15p. For Hi-Yo Silver, October issue. Sent March 22, 1954." Story picks up from last issue. ~Dave Porta
Art identification by Dave Porta, 4 January, 2013.
Silver and the Lost Child
Silver / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- animal; western-frontier
- Characters
- Lonnie, Jeanne, the Lone Ranger, Silver, child Martha, mare Nellie, 4 buffalo wolves
- Synopsis
- Lonnie falls off his horse, saddle girth broken. Jeanne falls off her horse into the creek, hits head on rock, Silver rescues her. Sleeping six-year-old Martha on folks' mare Nellie with corn sacks got separated from the wagons. Up arroyo, a coyote's howl sent Nellie running, and Martha awoke. Silver, protector of his band, investigates. He accepts Nellie, the other mares tear at the corn sacks, Martha is unseated, stranded. Four big buffalo wolves scent her, close in, she cries for help. Silver saves her, kills wolves. Search party finds her, evidence corroborates her tale of Silver's deed.
Indexer Notes
Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott states: "Silver and the Lost Child. 10p. For Hi-Yo Silver, October issue. Sent March 27, 1954." ~Dave Porta
Art identification by Dave Porta, 4 January, 2013.
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[no title indexed]
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Prairie Fire
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Silver's First Swim
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3.
Silver Strikes Back
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Silver and the Lost Child
Silver
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Dan Kocher
- Dave Porta
- Richard Thomson
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