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Issue Details

Issue #37
Published July 1951
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis The Lone Ranger and Tonto make their way through a cave.
Genre western
Pencils Ernest Nordli? (painting)
Inks Ernest Nordli? (painting)
Colors Ernest Nordli? (painting)
Notes First cover with all-blue outfit from the television series.

1 page filler "The Cowboy's Boots"

Synopsis Facts about cowboy boots.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Till Goodan (signed)
Inks Till Goodan (signed)
Letters Till Goodan?
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Half-art, half-text.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #4

20 page The Lone Ranger story "The Crooked Gambler"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)
Synopsis Bolo Sherman's father cheats at poker and is killed by one of the men he cheated. He moves to a different town and needs the Lone Ranger's help to keep a thug from forcing his sweetheart's father to buy crooked gambling equipment.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes First interior story where the Lone Ranger's outfit is colored all-blue. In earlier issues he had a red shirt and blue pants.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1946 newspaper strips

16 page The Lone Ranger story "The Gold Mine Stock"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid; Silver (horse); Scout (horse); Victor (horse)
Synopsis Duped settlers take out 60-day mortgages to buy stock in a fake gold mine, and lose their property when they can't pay the mortgage.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Lone Ranger's outfit is colored all-blue.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1943 newspaper strips

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

Characters Wolf Brother (intro)
Synopsis Pawnee Wolf Brother finds an Arikara maiden in the ruins of a camp raided by the Hidatsas.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with three illustrations; first in a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois’ personal records.

9 page Young Hawk story "The City of the Sun"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud
Synopsis Young Hawk and Little Buck return from a hunting trip to find their captive Black Dog has been killed when he stole a canoe from an old Natchez Indian named High Cloud. They travel to the Natchez "City of the Sun" where they gain supplies and leave with High Cloud to go to the sea.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes Part of a continuing storyline.

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 "White Mountain Sheep"

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. Horizontal color photograph of a white mountain sheep diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text below.