Four Color
#136 - The Lone Ranger
(February 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1947-01-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE LONE RANGER, No. 136." Code number is L.R.O.S. #136-472. Copyright 1940, 1947 by The Lone Ranger, Inc. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 163. Fifth of seven Lone Ranger Four Colors.
[no title indexed]
The Lone Ranger / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
[Hidden Gold / Manhunt / The Menace]
The Lone Ranger / comic story / 51 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Silver (horse); Tonto; Scout (horse); Deac Holt; The Menace (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto come upon a house that contains a mysterious couple who are holding a girl against her will. After escaping from a water-filled pit, the Lone Ranger helps the girl's father rescue Tonto and the girl from a gang that is after a chest of gold. The gold belongs to the girl's husband Deac Holt, who has lost his memory. The Lone Ranger and Tonto find Holt, but learn that he is wanted for murder in Abilene. Holt escapes from a mountain cabin before the Lone Ranger finds out that the men Holt was staying with were the actual killers.
- Reprints
- from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1940.04.15 to 1940.08.31
Indexer Notes
Four tiers of panels per page. Three stories that transition into one another. Story begins on inside front cover in black, white, and red. Story continues on inside back cover in black, white, and red and concludes on back cover in full color. Dates verified from original newspaper strips.
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