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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published August 1951
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Silver jump through the side rails of a wooden bridge.
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #3 (with different logo)

1 page filler "Indian Fighters"

Synopsis Facts about the U.S. Cavalry.
Genre western; fact
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Half art, half text.

18 page The Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger Fights the Ghost Gang"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis An old prospector helps The Lone Ranger find "The Ghost Gang," which is hiding out in an abandoned mine under a ghost town.
Genre western
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes First original Lone Ranger story in this series. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

18 page The Lone Ranger story "Headlines in Lead"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Red Wilkins and Mayor Barnes conspire to close down a newspaper in Faro.
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 files.

2 page Wolf Brother text story "Wolf Brother’s Partner"

Characters Wolf Brother; Prairie Rose
Synopsis Fleeing a Sioux war party, Pawnee Wolf Brother and bride-to-be Prairie Rose take refuge on a rocky butte before a buffalo stampede scares off their enemies.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with two illustrations. Second in a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois’ personal files.

9 page Young Hawk story "Rescue from Flood"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud
Synopsis A flood on the Mississippi causes part of the bank Little Buck is standing on to cave into the river. Young Hawk must rescue him and the two float downstream on a tree before being rescued by High Cloud.
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 promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscribe Now-Mail This Coupon Today"

Letters typeset
Notes Subscription form for Lone Ranger comics. No art.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #17

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Free 5 Beautiful, Big Full Color Pictures"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to the Dell Lone Ranger Comic. Premium is five free Lone Ranger pictures.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #35

1 page illustration "Wapiti"

Genre animal; fact
Pencils American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Inks American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
Colors American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. (photograph)
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Notes Back cover. Horizontal color photograph of a “wapiti” (the Indian name for a large elk-like animal) diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text below.