The Lone Ranger #42

(December 1951)

Look! Your Favorite Comic Book Every Month (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

The Grayson Trail (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

The Lone Ranger [John Reid]

Synopsis

Scar Grayson's gang sends a false message by telegraph to Batesville to lure the Sheriff and his posse away from town.

Indexer Notes

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

Geronimo "The Restless One" (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tom Gill ?

Inks

Tom Gill ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

biography; western-frontier

Characters

Geronimo

Synopsis

The story of the Apache Indian Geronimo.

Reprints

• in The Lone Ranger (Western, 1964 series) #7 (July 1967)

Little Hunter and the Cougar's Cub... (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Gaylord Du Bois (sourced) (Entry states: "Little Hunter and the Cougar's Cub. text for Roy Rogers Comics, December issue. Sent March 26, 1951.")

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Wolf Brother; Prairie Rose; Little Hunter

Synopsis

Pawnee toddler Little Hunter stumbles into the den of a cougar and her cub.

Indexer Notes

Text story with two illustrations. Sixth and final Wolf Brother text story.

Although handwritten entry states: "for Roy Rogers Comics," this was obviously a simple error in bookkeeping, as every other element of the entry tallies with this story. The transcribed account books (an ongoing project at the time), sorted by title, however, tucked this entry away in the Roy Rogers section.

[A Debt Repaid] (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

While exploring the lower reaches of the Rio Grande, Young Hawk returns to camp to find Little Buck and High Cloud gone. He trails them to the village of the two women whose lives he saved earlier, but is captured. The girl Lanika helps them escape.

Indexer Notes

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

[Subscription Coupon] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Indian Thunder (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Synopsis

How to make an Indian “thunder-stick.”

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white; half art, half text.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[The Jack Rabbit] (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Colors

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; animal

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Color photograph of a jack rabbit diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text underneath.