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Issue Details

Issue #114
Published December 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger with guns drawn, looks up an artistically-added set of steps.
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.

9 page The Lone Ranger story "Escape"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Pretending to be outlaws, the Lone Ranger and Tonto gain the trust of a bank robber, who has been abandoned to the law by the rest of his gang.
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.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Buffalo Hunt"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto are mistaken for scouts for buffalo hunters who are trespassing on Cheyenne hunting grounds.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes reference to Silver's origin in Wild Horse Valley; script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #4

4 page The Lone Ranger story "The Marked Stage"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis A stable hand is marking the stage carrying a secret payroll. The mystery is how the Lone Ranger knows which one it is, merely by their height.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes #1 in "Solve the Mystery" series; script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

1 page text story "The Green Hand"

Synopsis Nat Thatcher’s brush with a freshly-painted post gives him away as the robber of the general store.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with 1/4 page illustration

7 page Young Hawk story "Jaguar in the Canyon"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis At the bottom of large canyon in western Mexico, Young Hawk and Little Buck kill a jaguar that is being chased by a group of tall hunters and are invited back to their village.
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.

2 page advertisement "Dad! Read this"

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

1 page advertisement "The Best Brand on Any Bike..."

Notes back cover; illustrated ad for Schwinn Bicycles. Schwinn Mark II Jaguar depicted.