Four Color
#312 - Tonto
(January 1951)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "TONTO, No. 312." Code number is TONTO O.S. #312-511. Copyright 1950 by The Lone Ranger, Inc. Only Tonto Four Color. Continues as The Lone Ranger's Companion, Tonto (Dell, 1951 series) with #2 (August-October 1951).
The Hopi Snake Dance
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Description of the Hopi Indians' Snake Dance.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations with text.
Laughing Dog's War Party
Tonto / comic story / 21 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Tonto; Stone Bear; Scout (horse); Laughing Dog
- Synopsis
- Tonto returns to his home village to find that hunters have been killed or wounded by rifles that blow up when fired. Despite interference from Laughing Dog, a warrior who wants the rifles to challenge the Army, Tonto finds the traders who are dealing the inferior rifles and convinces Laughing Dog that the traders are crooks.
Tonto and the Stock Killers
Tonto / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Tonto; Scout (horse)
- Synopsis
- Tonto helps a rancher by setting traps for a pack of wolves that is preying on his cattle. They capture something similar but unexpected.
Indexer Notes
Was first credited to Jon Small with a question mark, but this is not Small. Compare the first story by Jon Small.
It looks like Alberto Giolitti.
The American Cayuse
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Sitting Bull (cameo)
- Synopsis
- History of horses in North America, starting with their introduction into Mexico by Hernando Cortez.
- Reprints
-
in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #37 (July 1974) which is reprinted
-
in The Shaman
Tonto / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Tonto; Tall Pines; Swift Otter; Scout (horse)
- Synopsis
- Tonto and his friends, Tall Pines and Swift Otter, help a white man retrieve his gold after he is robbed by three other white men. Tonto pretends to be a shaman to force a confession from the guilty party.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Tonto -
1.
The Hopi Snake Dance
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2.
Laughing Dog's War Party
Tonto -
3.
Tonto and the Stock Killers
Tonto -
4.
The American Cayuse
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5.
The Shaman
Tonto -
6.
How to Build a Wigwam
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7.
The Batista
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Thomas Johnson
- Lou Mazzella
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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