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Issue Details

Issue #122
Published August 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Gold Town Issue

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger covers a fallen outlaw who is reaching for his gun
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page "Fresh-up" Freddie Says: advertisement "What do Alligator-wrestlers drink to quench their thirst?"

Characters "Fresh-up" Freddie
Genre funny animals
Notes inside front cover; color illustrated ad in strip form for Seven-Up soft drink.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "Gold Town Trouble"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger convinces Bill Turner to become sheriff of "Gold Town" after his partner is killed and his claim taken over by six men.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

9 page The Lone Ranger story "Robber's Roost"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto return to "Gold Town" three years after the first story in this issue, only to find it a ghost town, occupied by an outlaw gang
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Reference to first story in book

1 page text story "Salted Gold"

Synopsis A pair of prospectors con a swindler into taking back a “salted” mine they bought from him.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with small illustration

4 page The Lone Ranger story "The Black Mark"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger must decide which member of a posse was the killer of a gold assayer.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes A "Solve the Mystery" story

6 page Young Hawk story "Peccary Attack"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Young Hawk and Little Buck are ascending the Gila River. After a near disaster with a whirlpool they leave the river and begin walking east across New Mexico. They then fight off an attack of a band of peccaries (wild pigs)
Genre western
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes part of a continuing storyline; last page has Dell's Pledge to Parents

1 page story "The Longhorn"

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo)
Synopsis Facts about longhorn cattle, "narrated" by the Lone Ranger
Genre animal; fact
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Free - This great American Eagle Ring"

Characters Lone Ranger
Letters typeset
Notes inside back cover; color promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic; Premium is American Eagle ring; also Dell’s Pledge to Parents

1 page advertisement "Have Fun Safely"

Notes back cover; color ad for Juicy Fruit Gum featuring Safety Rules