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Issue Details

Issue #137
Published December 1960-January 1961
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Last 10 cent issue.

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger uses a hammerlock to subdue a knife-wielding thug.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
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1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Christmas shopping a puzzle?"

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Notes inside front cover; black and white; promo for subscriptions to Dell comics.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Assassination"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Gun smugglers hope to assassinate an important Mexican official to prevent the opening of a Texas Ranger station close to the border.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

4 page The Lone Ranger story "The Murdered Cousin"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger must decide if a man killed his cousin to get an inheritance.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

10 page The Lone Ranger story "Intruders in Wild Horse Valley"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Tonto has to bring a doctor to Wild Horse Valley after the Lone Ranger is wounded in a fight with a grizzly bear.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Silver's origin referred to.

1 page text story "Buzzard Bait"

Synopsis A bank robber trails a sheriff across a desert.
Genre western
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Notes text story with 1/4 page illustration

6 page Young Hawk story "Repels Boarders"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Having rescued the Haida captives, Young Hawk and crew fight off the pursuing Tlinglet canoes and return to what remains of their original village.
Genre western
Notes part of a continuing storyline

Half page Grit advertisement "Boys Here's a Swell Way to Make $1 to $5 weekly."

Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
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Notes ad for Grit newspaper

1 page story "Arizona Landmarks"

Synopsis geographical facts about Arizona.
Genre western; fact
Notes inside back cover; black and white.

1 page advertisement "Nichols Blue Steels are True-Blue Guns of the Old West"

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Notes back cover; color ad for Nichols Industries toy cap pistols and rifles.