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Issue Details

Issue #36
Published June 1951
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis While riding Silver. the Lone Ranger shoots a knife out of an outlaw’s hand.
Genre western
Pencils Ernest Nordli (painting)
Inks Ernest Nordli (painting)
Colors Ernest Nordli (painting)

1 page filler "The Cowboy's Chaps"

Synopsis Facts about cowboy chaps.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Till Goodan (signed)
Inks Till Goodan (signed)
Letters Till Goodan
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Half art, half text.

20 page The Lone Ranger story "A Change of Heart"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto (cameo); Dan Reid; Silver (horse); Victor (horse)
Synopsis Young boys Kip and Bill are part of "The Hook's" gang. After Bill is killed in a botched bank robbery, Kip vows to kill Sam Blaine, the sheriff. He changes his mind after he meets the sheriff's crippled daughter.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Basically three tiers of panels, with an occasional double height panel.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1945 newspaper strips

16 page The Lone Ranger story "The Range War"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid; Silver (horse); Scout (horse); Victor (horse)
Synopsis The owner of the Circle Dot ranch is burning "nester" (farmers) cabins on the open range; but his son is in love with one of the nesters' daughters.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Three tiers of panels per page with occasional larger panel.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1945 newspaper strips

2 page text story "Little Crow and the Red Sticks"

Characters Little Crow; Walking Tree
Synopsis Little Crow must save his adopted father, Shawnee chief Walking Tree, from an attack by rogue warriors.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with four illustrations. Continued from text story in The Lone Ranger #35. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois’ personal records.

9 page Young Hawk story "The Shaman's Treachery"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud (intro)
Synopsis After rescuing a Chickasaw hunter from a rattlesnake, Young Hawk and Little Buck return with him to his village. They make enemies of the shaman and his son Black Dog and are forced to flee with Black Dog as a hostage. Black Dog tricks an old man, High Cloud, into freeing him, but the young man steals his rescuer's canoe.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes Part of a continuing storyline. First appearance of High Cloud. 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) "Free 5 Beautiful, Big Full Color Pictures"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to the Dell Lone Ranger Comic. Premium is five free Lone Ranger pictures.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #35

1 page illustration "Pronghorn Antelope"

Synopsis Horizontal color photograph of a pronghorn antelope diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text below.
Genre animal; fact
Pencils American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Inks American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Colors American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. First in series of natural history dioramas.