The Lone Ranger, #86

Published: August 1955

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Issue Contents:
Storyline

The Lone Ranger puts his hands up as he is covered by a pair of Indians with rifles.

Credits
Story Notes

Art identification by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).

Your Wish Come True!
Story Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Promo for subscriptions to Dell Lone Ranger comics. Premium is magnifying glass. Also includes Dell’s "A Pledge to Parents.”

Ambush
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The managers of the Circle Bar Ranch have been stealing the ranch's cattle, but not enough to keep the ranch from turning a profit. When the ranch's absentee owners send an accountant for a routine audit, the managers panic because they don't have enough cash on hand to match the books. They plot to ambush the accountant before he can get to the ranch.

Credits
Story Notes

Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

Border Intrigue
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An American outlaw and his gang join forces with a Mexican rebel in a plot to steal a large shipment of Army rifles and take them across the Rio Grande river to Mexico.

Credits
Story Notes

Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.

Showdown
Storyline

A showdown between Pop Gordon and the man he put in prison has an unexpected ending.

Story Notes

Text story with very small illustration. First one-page text story in this series.

Fishing for the Man-Sized Pike
Storyline

While camping by a northern lake, Young Hawk rigs a fishing line to an arrow to shoot a huge northern pike.

Credits
Story Notes

Part of a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois' personal records. Artwork first credited to Jon Small.

Old Man Badger
Storyline

Facts about badgers.

Story Notes

Half text-half art.

The Lone Ranger’s Golden West
Story Notes

Color promo with cover depiction of Dell Giant “The Lone Ranger’s Golden West“ #3.

The First Cattlemen
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Facts about Spanish cowboys and Mexican vacqueros.

Story Notes

Inside back cover; black and white; half text-half art.

Amazing Offer
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Back cover; color. Illustrated ad for selling greeting cards for Colonial Studios, Inc., White Plains, N.Y.