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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published April 1950
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger; Silver (horse)
Synopsis As three armed men watch, Silver plays dead as the Lone Ranger hides behind a large cactus.
Genre western
Notes Cover has the "This is a King Feature" emblem.

1 page filler "Three Ordeals"

Synopsis Facts about the ordeals faced by candidates for chief of the Osage tribe.
Genre Western; fact
Notes Inside front cover; dark blue and white. Text and illustrations.

16 page The Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger and the Star Sapphire"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Col. Yardley trades his wife's family jewels to a blackmailer in order to keep the real circumstances of their son's death a secret.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1948 newspaper strips.

23 page The Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger and the Wheat Fire in Green Valley"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid
Synopsis People from a settlement drain a lake to put out a wheat field fire set by Mr. Newton in order to cause a family to lose their farm.
Genre western
Script Fran Striker?
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes Three tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) 1948 newspaper strips.

3 page text story "Running Fox's Change of Heart"

Characters Running Fox; Chief Wolf Jaw; Simon Kenton
Synopsis Simon Kenton is captured by Wyandotte Indians and forced to run the gauntlet. Story told from the point of view of the Indian boy Running Fox.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with three illustrations. Continued in Lone Ranger #23. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.

5 page Young Hawk story "The Deserted Pueblo"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck; White Fawn
Synopsis Young Hawk, Little Buck, and White Fawn lose their canoe after an earthquake, then find a deserted pueblo village.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Tom Hickey (signed)
Inks Tom Hickey (signed)
Notes Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Wilson Publishing, 1949 series) #23

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! Five Full Color Illustrations of Lone Ranger and Silver..in Action!"

Characters Lone Ranger; Young Hawk (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrated promo for subscriptions to Dell’s Lone Ranger comic. Premium is five pinups of the Lone Ranger.
Reprinted from Lone Ranger, The (Dell, 1948 series) #17

1 page illustration "Warrior 2"

Synopsis Portrait of an Indian warrior.
Genre western
Pencils Mo Gollub ?
Inks Mo Gollub ?
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Second in a series of portraits of unnamed Indian warriors.