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Issue Details

Issue #105
Published March 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD; 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Available in both 10 cent and 15 cent versions.

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger
Synopsis Lone Ranger leads US Calvary charge
Genre western
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4, August 2002; the original indexer credited Hank Hartman with the painting.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #7

1 page Ways of the West story "Saddle Blanket"

Synopsis multi-panel illustrated article on saddle blankets
Genre fact; western; fact
Script Paul S. Newman
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover; black and white; script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman’s personal records.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Trail to the Texas Rangers"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid
Synopsis The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Dan Reid return to the Texas Panhandle to attend the dedication ceremony of a new Texas Ranger station that will be named Fort Reid. Outlaws kidnap Dan Reid after the ceremony.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes references to Lone Ranger's origin; Like his bullets; the Lone Ranger's horse Silver's horseshoes are made of silver; script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Hard Lesson"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Schoolteacher Enoch Turner has come west to teach the Blackfoot Indians to read and write. The tribe's medicine man is not happy and forces him from the village.
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.

1 page text story "True Gold"

Synopsis Prospector Hal Baker has to decide whether to lead a posse to a canyon to capture bank robbers and possibly lose his gold claim there.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with small illustration
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #7

8 page Young Hawk story "Ancient Mayan Ruins"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Shipwrecked on the Yucatan peninsula, Young Hawk, Little Buck; and a boy named Atan that they rescued from an island, journey inland across a desert, finding ancient ruins, then a thriving Mayan city.
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 text article "The Cedar Bird"

Synopsis facts about the Cedar bird.
Genre fact; animals; fact
Letters typeset
Notes short article with illustration

Half page advertisement "We Love Those Cough Drops"

Notes illustrated ad for Smith Brothers Cough Drops

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "It’s Yours Free"

Characters Lone Ranger
Notes inside back cover; black and white; promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic; also Dell’s Pledge to Parents.

1 page advertisement "New fruit-flavor, fruit-color Trix"

Notes back cover; illustrated ad for Trix cereal.