Four Color
#151 - The Lone Ranger
(June 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1947-04-29
- 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. 151." Code number is L.R.O.S. #151-476. Copyright 1940, 1947 by The Lone Ranger, Inc. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 163. Sixth of seven Lone Ranger Four Colors.
The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Tonto
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Old Man's Gold Claim; The Big Star Mine; The Green Ridge Stagecoach]
The Lone Ranger / comic story / 39 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse); Sawtell (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto keep Sawtell, a crooked assay clerk, from stealing an old man's gold claim. Some months later the Lone Ranger and Tonto return to the area and find Sawtell is managing the Big Star Mine. Sawtell frames the Lone Ranger for an assault, then rigs a booby trap in the mine to kill the Ranger when he investigates. Later the Lone Ranger has to deliver cash and avoid robbers in order to save the Green Ridge stage line.
- Reprints
- from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1940.09.02 to 1940.12.21
Indexer Notes
Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Three separate plots with reoccurring characters spliced together into one long story. Reprint dates verified from newspaper strips. The sequence from 1940.10.02 to 1940.12.21 is titled "Once a Crook" in the newspaper strips.
The Lone Ranger and the Poisoned Water
The Lone Ranger / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
- Synopsis
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into a strangely deserted town. There are no people and all the animals are asleep. They find a girl tied to a chair in a house. After they untie her, the three are forced into a mine by a deranged man, who proceeds to blast the entrance closed. All the townspeople are in the mine, having been brought there after drinking drugged water. Their captor, Sully, says he'll blast the entrance open if Dixon, the mine's owner, signs the mine over to him.
- Reprints
- from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1940.12.23 to 1941.01.25
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color. Reprint dates verified from the original newspaper strips.
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Table of Contents
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The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger -
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[Old Man's Gold Claim; The Big Star Mine; The Green Ridge Stagecoach]
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The Lone Ranger and the Poisoned Water
The Lone Ranger
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Pat Conolly
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
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