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Issue Details

Issue #139
Published April-May 1961
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 36
Notes photo cover

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore); Silver
Synopsis The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) mounted on Silver.
Genre western
Pencils photo
Inks photo
Colors photo
Letters typeset
Notes photo cover

1 page advertisement "This is a Tigerhorse"

Notes inside front cover; color ad for Kraft caramels candy featuring a fanciful hybrid animal.

1 page advertisement "204 Revolutionary War Soldiers"

Letters typeset
Notes inside back cover; color ad for plastic Revolutionary War toy soldiers. Only $1.98.

1 page advertisement "Start your Day the Storybook way with Twinkles"

Letters typeset
Notes back cover; color illustrated ad for Twinkles breakfast cereal, which comes in a “storybook” package.

10 page Lone Ranger, The story "The Stage Robber's Signal"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto must discover how robbers know which stages crossing a barren waste are carrying valuables.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

4 page Lone Ranger, The story "The False Claim"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger must decide which prospector has the true claim to a strike.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

1 page text story "The Suspect"

Synopsis The fate of a man arrested for murder rests on the testimony of his nephew.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with 1/6 page illustration

2 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Trade at the Exciting, Amazing, New Dell Trading Post"

Characters Huckleberry Hound (cameo); Woody Woodpecker (cameo); Little Lulu (cameo); Tom (of Tom & Jerry) (cameo); Mickey Mouse (cameo)
Notes centerfold; Two page promo for the Dell Trading Post

7 page Lone Ranger, The story "When the Yellowlegs Strike"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Cheyenne chief Black Lance claims that wagon trains are crossing Indian land and he is entitled to attack them.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #9 [retitled "Showdown at Cross Creek"]

7 page Young Hawk story "Young Hawk Meets the White Bear"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Young Hawk , Little Buck, and the Haida warrior Sea Eagle have sailed far north to the Bering Strait. Young Hawk kills a polar bear that attacks the Innuit hunter Maliktok.
Genre western
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes part of a continuing storyline

Half page advertisement "Zingy! Dreamy!"

Letters typeset
Notes ad for Jumping-Jacks Shoes

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

Pencils photos
Inks photos
Colors photos
Letters typeset
Notes ad for Grit newspaper