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Issue Details

Issue #77
Published November 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger
Synopsis The Lone Ranger fires both six guns while using a barrel for cover.
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Oh Boy! Here’s My First Issue..."

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo)
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Promo in strip form for subscriptions to Dell Lone Ranger comics. Premium is Dell Comics Club ball point pen.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #64 [minus color]

12 page The Lone Ranger story "The Valley of Danger"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Veteran Sgt. Wade gets in trouble for changing the new commandant's supply orders; but is vindicated when Comanches attack.
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.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #17

9 page The Lone Ranger story "The New Commissioner"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis A gang substitutes an impersonator for the new Deputy Commissioner in order to get $50,000 from a fort.
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 Six "Nuggets"

Characters Panhandle Jake; Matt Gurley
Synopsis Panhandle Jake lays a trap for the man who murdered his partner.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with two illustrations.

8 page Young Hawk story "Find Baby's Parents"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Young Hawk and Little Buck find the parents of the baby they saved from the flood, then go on a buffalo hunt with their new Sioux friends.
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 activity "Indian Strike-A-Light Pouch"

Synopsis Instructions for constructing a pouch to carry flint and steel for making fires.
Genre western; fact
Pencils August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Inks August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Half text-half art,

1 page filler "Indian Honor Marks"

Synopsis Facts about Indian Honor Marks (painting and feathers.)
Genre western; fact
Pencils August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Inks August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; half text-half art.

1 page Lionel Trains advertisement "Here's How We Got Lionel Trains!"

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Ad in comic form for Lionel model trains.