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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published February 1950
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis A prospector gives the Lone Ranger directions.
Genre western
Pencils Mo Gollub?
Inks Mo Gollub?
Notes Cover has "This is a King Feature" emblem.

1 page filler "The Chisholm Trail..."

Synopsis Facts about cattle drives on the Chisholm Trail.
Genre Western; fact
Pencils John Wade Hampton (signed)
Inks John Wade Hampton (signed)
Letters John Wade Hampton (signed)
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrations and text.

39 page The Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger and the Strange Birthday Present"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger is accused of killing a messenger who had a letter that was to be delivered to Bob Lawton on his 18th birthday.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Three tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1947 newspaper strips.

3 page text article "The Yarns of Old Gabe"

Characters Jim Bridger
Synopsis The fables told by frontier scout Jim Bridger in the early part of the 19th century. Bridger was one of the first white men to see Yellowstone Park, but when he described the sights he'd seen, no one believed him. Miffed, he concocted far-fetched tales based on the wonders of the old west.
Genre western; fact
Script Carl Smith (credited)
Pencils Tom Hickey [as T.H.] (signed)
Inks Tom Hickey [as T.H.] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with three illustrations.

5 page Young Hawk story "The Cougar Killer"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; White Fawn
Synopsis Young Hawk is injured while killing a cougar.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Tom Hickey
Inks Tom Hickey
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) "Special Offer to Readers of this Comic!"

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo); Tonto (cameo); Young Hawk (cameo); Zorro
Pencils ?; Bill Ely
Inks ?; Bill Ely
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic. Premium is free copy of “The Mark of Zorro” Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #228. Cover of Four Color #228 and a interior drawing of Zorro from the comic are shown. Both have art by Bill Ely.

1 page illustration "Wolf Head"

Characters Wolf Head (Blackfoot Indian)
Synopsis Portrait of Wolf Head, "the greatest medicine man of the Blackfoot nation."
Genre western
Pencils Mo Gollub?
Inks Mo Gollub?
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; 13th in a series of portraits of Indian warriors and chiefs.