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Issue: The Lone Ranger #42
Publication Date: December 1951
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Issues: #42 of 145 Issues (151 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: First 36 page issue since #1. 36 page issues continue through #49.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: The Lone Ranger raises his hands when two outlaws hold a gun on him from behind, but Tonto is behind a rock above the trail and has the outlaws covered.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Look! Your Favorite Comic Book Every Month

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Santa Claus; Lone Ranger (cameo); Tonto (cameo)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Lone Ranger #43 published January 1952
as Look! Your Favorite Comic Book Every Month [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to the Dell Lone Ranger Comic. Premium is Gold plated Key Holder.
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The Grayson Trail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: Scar Grayson's gang sends a false message by telegraph to Batesville to lure the Sheriff and his posse away from town.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal files.
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Geronimo "The Restless One"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, western
Character(s): Geronimo
Synopsis: The story of the Apache Indian Geronimo.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Lone Ranger #7 published July 1967
as The Restless One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Little Hunter and the Cougar's Cub...

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wolf Brother
Character(s): Wolf Brother; Prairie Rose; Little Hunter
Synopsis: Pawnee toddler Little Hunter stumbles into the den of a cougar and her cub.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text story with two illustrations. Sixth and final Wolf Brother text story.

Although handwritten entry states: "for Roy Rogers Comics," this was obviously a simple error in bookkeeping, as every other element of the entry tallies with this story. The transcribed account books (an ongoing project at the time), sorted by title, however, tucked this entry away in the Roy Rogers section.
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A Debt Repaid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud
Synopsis: While exploring the lower reaches of the Rio Grande, Young Hawk returns to camp to find Little Buck and High Cloud gone. He trails them to the village of the two women whose lives he saved earlier, but is captured. The girl Lanika helps them escape.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9.5
Disclose Notes: Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois' personal records.
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Subscription Coupon

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid; Young Hawk; Little Buck (all cameos)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Lone Ranger #43 published January 1952
as Subscription coupon [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Subscription form for Lone Ranger comics with cameos of five characters.
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Indian Thunder

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: How to make an Indian “thunder-stick.”
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white; half art, half text.
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Use This Form for Christmas Gift Subscriptions

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagThe Lone Ranger #43 published January 1952
as Use This Form for Christmas Gift Subscriptions [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to the Dell Lone Ranger Comic.
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The Jack Rabbit

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Color photograph of a jack rabbit diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text underneath.

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