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Issue Details

Issue #70
Published April 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Tonto and the Lone Ranger fire their guns from the cab of a railroad engine.
Genre western
Pencils Hank Hartman (painting)
Inks Hank Hartman (painting)
Colors Hank Hartman (painting)
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #15 [with different logo]

1 page Whitman Tell-a-Tale Books advertisement "Tell-a-Tale Books for Children"

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Notes Inside front cover; color. Illustrated ad for Whitman 15 cent Tell-a-Tale children's books. Very small cover reproductions of 15 books are depicted.

13 page The Lone Ranger story "End of the Chase"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Rambo, Lyman, and Grinning Wolf are a gang terrorizing settlers near Infernal Blazes.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

10 page The Lone Ranger story "Chinese Gold"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Red Estey and his men are out to control the gold boomtown of Oreville. They stir up a mob against a Chinese settlement to cover their robbery of the Chinese miners' gold.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

12 page The Lone Ranger story "A Message Gone Wrong"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis A gang uses a fake telegraph message to steal a gold shipment from the Army.
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 "Apache Raised"

Characters Boyd Tanner; John Scott
Synopsis Apache-raised John Scott must save his family from a band of renegade Apaches.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
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Notes Text story with three illustrations. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.

10 page Young Hawk story "Bear Attacks Girl in Canoe"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Descending to the Wyoming plains after their long winter, Young Hawk and Little Buck save a Shoshone girl in a canoe from an attack by a bear.
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 promo (ad from the publisher) "New Adventures Every Month"

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo); Silver (horse) (cameo)
Pencils Tom Gill ?
Inks Tom Gill ?
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Notes Promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic. Premium is Magic Window Set.

1 page Curtiss; Baby Ruth advertisement "For That Trip Into Space..."

Genre science fiction
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Notes Inside back cover; color. Illustrated ad for Curtiss Candy Company's Baby Ruth candy bars.

1 page Wheaties advertisement "Send For This Big Wheaties Offer Now!"

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Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Wheaties breakfast cereal featuring 1954 U.S. state license plates premium.