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Issue Details

Issue #392
Published April 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE LONE RANGER'S FAMOUS HORSE HI-YO SILVER, No. 392." Code number is SILVER O.S. #392-524. Copyright 1952 by The Lone Ranger, Inc. Second of two Hi-Yo Silver Four Colors. Continues as The Lone Ranger's Famous Horse Hi-Yo Silver (Dell, 1952 series) #3 (July-September 1952).

Cover Details

Characters Silver (horse)
Genre animal; western
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "The McClellan Saddle"

Synopsis Facts about the McClellan saddle.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Text and two illustrations.

10 page Silver story "Silver and the Mad Stallion"

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse); Sylvan (horse); Moussa (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger tells a tale of Silver as a colt. Silver's father, Sylvan, has to fight off a crazed black stallion.
Genre animal; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Notes Script submitted September 3, 1951. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

10 page Silver story "Silver Goes A-Roaming"

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse); Scamper (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger tells a tale of Silver as a half-grown colt. Silver and his friend Scamper explore the foothills and have encounters with wolves, elk, a cougar, and Apache horse hunters.
Genre animal; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Notes Script submitted September 20, 1951. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

7 page Silver story "Silver Gets a Warning"

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse); Moussa (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger tells a tale of Silver as a yearling. Silver befriends a pair of beavers who are threatened by a wolf.
Genre animal; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Notes Script submitted September 29, 1951. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

7 page Silver story "Silver Leads to Freedom"

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse); Sylvan (horse); Scamper (horse); Moussa (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger tells a tale of Silver as a two-year-old. Silver and Scamper rescue Silver's mother, Moussa, after she and other mares have been captured by Comanche horse hunters.
Genre animal; western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Script submitted September 3, 1951. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).