(August 1951)

Dell, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
A Dell Comic
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis
The Lone Ranger and Silver jump through the side rails of a wooden bridge.
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Indian Fighters (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Synopsis
Facts about the U.S. Cavalry.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Half art, half text.

The Lone Ranger Fights the Ghost Gang (Table of Contents: 2)

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 18 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
An old prospector helps The Lone Ranger find "The Ghost Gang," which is hiding out in an abandoned mine under a ghost town.

Indexer Notes

First original Lone Ranger story in this series. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

Headlines in Lead (Table of Contents: 3)

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 18 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
Red Wilkins and Mayor Barnes conspire to close down a newspaper in Faro.

Indexer Notes

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

Wolf Brother’s Partner (Table of Contents: 4)

Wolf Brother / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Jon Small
Inks
Jon Small
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wolf Brother; Prairie Rose
Synopsis
Fleeing a Sioux war party, Pawnee Wolf Brother and bride-to-be Prairie Rose take refuge on a rocky butte before a buffalo stampede scares off their enemies.

Indexer Notes

Text story with two illustrations. Second in a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois’ personal files.

[Rescue from Flood] (Table of Contents: 5)

Young Hawk / comic story / 9.5 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Jon Small
Inks
Jon Small
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud
Synopsis
A flood on the Mississippi causes part of the bank Little Buck is standing on to cave into the river. Young Hawk must rescue him and the two float downstream on a tree before being rescued by High Cloud.

Indexer Notes

Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois' personal records.

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Free 5 Beautiful, Big Full Color Pictures (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

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

[Wapiti] (Table of Contents: 8)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. (photograph)
Inks
American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. (photograph)
Colors
American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. (photograph)
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; animal

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Horizontal color photograph of a “wapiti” (the Indian name for a large elk-like animal) diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text below.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Lone Ranger
  2. 1. Indian Fighters
  3. 2. The Lone Ranger Fights the Ghost Gang
    The Lone Ranger
  4. 3. Headlines in Lead
    The Lone Ranger
  5. 4. Wolf Brother’s Partner
    Wolf Brother
  6. 5. [Rescue from Flood]
    Young Hawk
  7. 6. Subscribe Now-Mail This Coupon Today
  8. 7. Free 5 Beautiful, Big Full Color Pictures
  9. 8. [Wapiti]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Merlin Haas
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Nuno Miranda
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore