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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published September 1951
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
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Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger fires while protecting an unconscious Tonto.
Genre western
Pencils Ernest Nordli (painting)
Inks Ernest Nordli (painting)
Colors Ernest Nordli (painting)

1 page filler "Scouts of the Cavalry"

Synopsis Facts about civilian and Indian scouts for the Cavalry.
Genre western; fact
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Half art, half text.

18 page The Lone Ranger story "Disputed Territory"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis A rancher tries to force a surveyor to get a railroad to cross his land so the government will have to buy it.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal files.

18 page The Lone Ranger story "As the Arrow Points"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis A wagon train faces perils from the Vulture Gang and renegade Apaches.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Tom Gill (signed)
Inks Tom Gill (signed)
Notes Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal files.

2 page Wolf Brother text story "Wolf Brother Returns"

Characters Wolf Brother; Prairie Rose
Synopsis Pawnee Wolf Brother steals horses to take his wounded bride-to-be Prairie Rose to safety.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with three illustrations. Third in a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois’ personal records.

9 page Young Hawk story "Hurricane in the Bayou"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud
Synopsis High Cloud tells the legend of the wildcat and the deer. Later the three weather a hurricane in a Mississippi River bayou.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscribe Now-Mail This Coupon Today"

Letters typeset
Notes Subscription form for Lone Ranger comics. No art.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #17

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Free 5 Beautiful, Big Full Color Pictures"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to the Dell Lone Ranger Comic. Premium is five free Lone Ranger pictures.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #35

1 page illustration "Mountain Goat"

Genre animal; fact
Pencils American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Inks American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Colors American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Color photograph of mountain goat diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text below.