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Issue Details

Issue #68
Published February 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger
Synopsis The Lone Ranger, guns drawn, kneels over a fallen robber.
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page Hormel advertisement "Collect College Pennants"

Notes Inside front cover; color. Illustrated ad for Hormel canned foods (Spam, Dinty Moore stew, Mary Kitchen hash, etc.) featuring college pennant premiums.

11 page The Lone Ranger story "Apache Pass"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Crazy Wolf and his Apache braves take Colonel Meredith's daughter captive.
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 records.

12 page The Lone Ranger story "The Fugitive"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Clay Trowbridge, unjustly accused of murder, hides out on Risco Island, an outlaws' refuge between Mexico and the United States.
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 records.

12 page The Lone Ranger story "Zanzibar"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Mrs. Trotter comes to Powder Bend to claim an inheritance, but finds her life in danger after witnessing the killing of the manager of an express office.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

2 page text story "The Water of Vengeance"

Characters Jerry Parrin; Rev. Walter Parrin
Synopsis A young boy and his mule track down men who stole horses from a wagon train.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with three illustrations. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois’ personal records.

10 page Young Hawk story "Wolf Attack on Ice"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Desperate for food in February, a pack of wolves attacks Young Hawk and Little Buck while they are ice-fishing.
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.

1 page filler "The Iron Horse"

Synopsis Railroads and how they changed the West.
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes Half text, half art.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Save Money and Get This Handsome Wallet"

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo); Silver (horse) (cameo)
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; color. Promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic. Premium is vinyl plastic wallet.

1 page Wheaties advertisement "Foreign License Plates"

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Illustrated ad for Wheaties breakfast cereal featuring Foreign License Plates premium.