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Issue Details

Issue #98
Published August 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
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Cover Details

Characters Lone Ranger
Genre western
Pencils Hank Hartman (painting)
Inks Hank Hartman (painting)
Colors Hank Hartman (painting)

1 page advertisement "Do you need extra money?"

Notes inside front cover; color ad for Cheerful Card Company, White Plains, NY. Make money selling boxes of Christmas cards.

12 page The Lone Ranger story "The Hollow Hero"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Freddy, a young boy, idolizes gunfighter King Canton.
Genre western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill

10 page The Lone Ranger story "The Mysterious Herd"

Characters Lone Ranger; Tonto
Synopsis Lone Ranger and Tonto help with a trail drive of cattle, but find the cowboys they're helping aren't who they are supposed to be.
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 records.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #21

1 page text story "Smoke Signal"

Synopsis Farmer John Knox has an uneasy friendship with Indian Red Bear.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes text story with small illustration.

7 page Young Hawk story "The Gauntlet"

Characters Young Hawk; Little Buck
Synopsis Young Hawk and Little Buck are captured by Erie tribesmen and forced to run the gauntlet.
Genre western
Script Gaylord DuBois
Pencils Jon Small
Inks Jon Small
Notes part of a continuing storyline; bottom third of last page is color promo for Dell's Tonto comic. Line drawing of the painted cover of Tonto #19 depicted Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord DuBois' personal records.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) Tonto teaches a young "Hero Worshipper"...

Characters Tonto (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes color promo for Dell's Tonto comic. Line drawing of the painted cover of Tonto #24 depicted.
Reprinted in Lone Ranger 99

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "A Lucky Penny Pocketpiece All Your Own..."

Characters Lone Ranger
Notes promo for subscription to Lone Ranger comics with drawing of Lone Ranger.

1 page Dopey Dan and Safety Sam advertisement

Notes inside back cover; illustrated ad for Juicy Fruit gum featuring bicycle safety rules.

1 page advertisement "New Foil Wrapped Cracker Jack"

Notes back cover; color ad for Cracker Jack with illustrations of box and 32 different in-box premiums.