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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published February 1949
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger jumps from Silver to grab the handrail on a railroad car.
Genre western
Pencils Mo Gollub?
Inks Mo Gollub?
Notes Part of cover reprinted in promo in The Lone Ranger #14. Cover has the "This is a King Features Comic" emblem.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #14 (see notes)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Hi-Yo, Silver, Away!"

Characters Lone Ranger, Silver (horse)
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover; black and white; promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #7

30 page The Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger on the Trail of a Criminal"

Characters Lone Ranger (origin retold); Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse); Dan Reid (intro)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto trail the criminal, Higgins, from Texas to Montana.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes four tiers of panels per page; Lone Ranger's origin retold. Introduction of Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger's nephew.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1943 newspaper strips.

11 page The Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger and the Secret Weapon"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Siver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto take refuge from a blizzard, but find that the cabin is under siege by crooks who want a trapper's furs.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1944 newspaper strips.

2 page filler "Git Along, Little Dogies"

Synopsis Lyrics to the traditional cowboy song "Git Along, Little Dogies" with illustrations.
Genre western
Script [traditional song]
Letters typeset

3 page text article "Wild Bill Hickok and the Texas Badman"

Characters Wild Bill Hickok; John Wesley Hardin; Bideno
Synopsis Marshal Wild Bill Hickok's encounters with gunman John Wesley Hardin in Abilene, Kansas, in 1871.
Genre western; fact
Script Carl Smith (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Text with three illustrations. Slightly fictionalized account of true events.

2 page Range Savvy filler "Cowboys and Their Horses"

Synopsis Facts about cowboys and their horses.
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page filler "Indian Boats"

Synopsis Facts about Indian boats.
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations with brief text.

1 page illustration "Chief Broken Arm - a Sioux Warrior"

Synopsis Portrait of Chief Broken Arm - a Sioux Warrior.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Mo Gollub?
Inks Mo Gollub?
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; first in a series of portraits of Indian warriors.