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Issue Details

Issue #130
Published October-November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes first issue with new logo

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger fires pistol from seat of surrey.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Enjoy your Favorite Dell Comic"

Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover; color promo for subscriptions to Dell comics; also Dell’s Pledge to Parents.

1 page "Fresh up" Freddy Says: advertisement "What does a hot test pilot drink for a quick refreshing lift?"

Characters "Fresh up" Freddie
Genre funny animal
Letters typeset
Notes back cover; color ad in strip form for Seven-Up soft drink.

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Disguise that Failed"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger infiltrates a railroad work camp in disguise to find out who is extorting kickbacks from the workers
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

9 page The Lone Ranger story "Under Attack"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid
Synopsis The Lone Ranger helps a Army outfit rebuilding a fort fight off Cheyenne Indians.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill ?
Inks Tom Gill ?

1 page text story "Schoolmarm"

Synopsis School teacher Mort Baker tries to persuade his students not to admire gunslingers.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with 1/8 page illustration

4 page The Lone Ranger story "The Wrong Wagon"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger has to decide which of two wagons contains the loot from a robbery.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes A "Solve the Mystery" story; though not billed as such.

6 page Young Hawk story "Bitter Homecoming"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis After many months of traveling, Young Hawk and Little Buck return to their home village only to find that sickness killed their parents a year earlier. The Spirit Bear directs Little Buck to leave and head north and west. They cross the mountains to the Columbia River.
Genre western
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes part of a continuing storyline; last panel is Dell's Pledge to Parents

Half page story "Inside a Tepee"

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo)
Synopsis Facts about Indian tepees "narrated" by the Lone Ranger.
Genre western; fact

Half page advertisement "The Call for Fall!"

Notes illustrated color ad for Jumping-Jacks shoes.

1 page advertisement "Win this Life-Size Aerojet Training Space Ship!"

Notes inside back cover; color ad for Kraft Marshmallows with contest rules.