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Issue Details

Issue #72
Published June 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis Mounted on Silver, the Lone Ranger shoots the gun out of a bandit’s hand.
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page Whitman advertisement "Vacation Fun"

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Notes Inside front cover; color. Illustrated ad for Whitman coloring books, activity books, and story books. Very small cover reproductions of 12 items.

13 page The Lone Ranger story "Apache Peril"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Chief Black Hawk and 100 braves jump the reservation and go on the war path.
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.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Outlaws"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Two outlaws break out of jail and take an old prospector and his wife hostage.
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 "Across the Canyon"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Roger Force is being paid by Washington interests to delay completion of the railroad bridge across Crystal Canyon so that they can take over the railroad franchise.
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.

2 page text story "Night Ride"

Characters Charlie Johnson
Synopsis "Big Charlie" Johnson breaks his only gun and later finds himself trailed by two Indians.
Genre western
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Notes Text story with three illustrations.

10 page Young Hawk story "The Jealous Brave"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Young Hawk and Little Buck go on a deer hunt with Shoshone chief Big Otter, but the jealous brave Canuga tries to turn the chief against his visitors.
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 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 ?
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Notes Promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic. Premium is vinyl wallet.

1 page Schwinn Bicycles advertisement "Big! Bright! Beautiful!"

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Notes Inside back cover; color. Illustrated ad for Schwinn bicycles. Schwinn Phantom depicted. Arnold, Schwinn, & Co., Chicago, Ill.

1 page Wheaties advertisement "Collect Miniature Solid Steel 1954 License Plates"

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Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Wheaties breakfast cereal featuring 1954 U.S. state license plates premium.