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Issue Details

Issue #115
Published January 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger leans against a wall, with drawn gun in right hand.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Free with every Christmas gift subscription!"

Notes inside front cover; promo for subscriptions to all monthly Dell comics. Premium is Mystery Animal Game.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Spoil-Takers"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Drake, the Indian agent, is selling the Indians' supplies to white men.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #5

9 page The Lone Ranger story "The Vigilante"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger disguises himself as One-Eye Eggers, an outlaw, to expose the leader of a band of vigilantes in Iron City.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #5

4 page The Lone Ranger story "The Indian Raiders"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto trail a band of "Indians" who robbed a wagon train. The mystery is how the Lone Ranger determines which of two groups of white men are the phony Indians'.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes #2 in "Solve the Mystery" series
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #5

1 page text story "Swindle"

Synopsis Old Cactus Cal teaches a young easterner a lesson with a creek salted with gold dust.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with illustration

6 page Young Hawk story "Waterfall dangers"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Young Hawk and Little Buck leave the canyon of the Jaguar hunters by using a long rope to descend by a large waterfall, then make a raft to float downstream and barely escape from another waterfall.
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.

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Letters typeset
Notes Statement of Ownership for Oct. 1, 1957. No circulation figures given.

2 page advertisement "How to get your Daisy Air Rifle for Christmas!"

Letters typeset
Notes last interior page; inside back cover; two page color ad with drawings and photos for Daisy Air Rifles.

1 page advertisement "Hurry...Hurry...Hurry!!"

Notes back cover; color ad featuring Walt Disney Mouseketeer Fun with Music Band Set by Spec-toy-culars, Inc., Long Island City, N.Y. Ad is paid for by Monsanto Chemical Co. Plastics Division to promote Lustrex styrene plastic toys.