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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published September 1950
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger jumps on Silver to escape two gunmen.
Genre western
Pencils Mo Gollub?

1 page filler "Bucking Horses"

Synopsis Facts about different types of bucking broncos.
Genre western; fact
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Half art, half text.

9 page The Lone Ranger story "The False Lone Ranger"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis After a man impersonating the Lone Ranger is killed, the Lone Ranger and Tonto are captured by Indians but are rescued by a sheriff and his posse who want to try them for the murder.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1939 newspaper strips

7 page The Lone Ranger story "The Stolen Herd"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Squint Feeney's gang is stealing cattle to sell to the Army.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1939 newspaper strips.

14 page The Lone Ranger story "The Land Option"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis The Healy family has an option to buy land in a valley. The owner of the land wants the option to lapse so that he can sell it to the railroad for a higher price.
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) 1940 newspaper strips

9 page The Lone Ranger story "The Burned Letters"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger frames a man for bank robbery to get him locked up in jail where he will be safe from those who want him killed.
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) 1939 newspaper strips

3 page Little Man text story "Little Man's Medicine"

Characters Little Man; Buffalo Calf
Synopsis Little Man follows the band of Comanches who have captured his friend Buffalo Calf and saves a wild mustang from quicksand.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with three illustrations. Fourth in a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.

5 page Young Hawk story "Home Again"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; White Fawn
Synopsis After escaping the prairie fire on the island, Young Hawk must kill a grizzly bear that attacks them as they leave. The trio return to Young Hawk and Little Buck's home village for the first time in two years.
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 (with minor modifications)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Read This Exciting News Direct From The Lone Ranger"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic. Premium is membership emblem and certificate for the Dell Comics Club.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #25

1 page illustration "Warrior 6"

Synopsis Portrait of an unnamed Indian warrior.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Part of a series.