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Issue Details

Issue #44
Published February 1952
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse)
Synopsis The Lone Ranger shoots a gun as he uses Silver to pull the bars from a jail window to let Tonto escape.
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page text article "Indian Lingo"

Synopsis Definitions of the Indian words “potlatch” and “How.”
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; half art, half text.

18 page The Lone Ranger story "The Masked Lady"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis A female opera singer wears a mask after she is wounded on the cheek by a bullet during a train holdup.
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.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #19 (edited down to 15 pages)

2 page story "Red Cloud's First Battle"

Characters Red Cloud
Synopsis True story of Sioux chief Red Cloud's first battle against the Army in Wyoming in 1866.
Genre western; fact
Notes A follow-up story appears in The Lone Ranger #45.

2 page text story "When the Earth Opened"

Characters Ho-Tai
Synopsis Indian boy Ho-Tai must rescue his puppy from lava flowing from a new volcano.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with two illustrations. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.

9 page Young Hawk story "Up the Rio Grande"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud; Young Eagle (Tuari)
Synopsis After escaping from the Aztec slave train with the help of High Cloud, the trio make their way back to their canoe which they had hidden on an island in the Rio Grande. After taking the canoe upriver, they rescue a young Pueblo couple from Apache warriors.
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) "Action! Thrills! Excitement!"

Characters Lone Ranger (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to the Dell Lone Ranger Comic.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #40

1 page illustration "Mountain Lion"

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)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Color photograph of mountain lion diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text above.