Four Color #151 The Lone Ranger - The Promise Collection Pedigree (Dell, 1947) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....

Auction amount: $6,600.00

Sold: May 16, 2022

Four Color #151 Values

Publisher: Dell, 1947

About Four Color #151

Reprints strips from 1940-41. Fran Striker and Charles Flanders art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Lone Ranger

Characters: Lone Ranger; Tonto

Pencils: Morris Gollub

Inks: Morris Gollub

Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

STORY DETAILS

(2 Stories)

Title: Old Man's Gold Claim; The Big Star Mine; The Green Ridge Stagecoach

Characters: Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse); Sawtell (villain)

Synopsis: The Lone Ranger and Tonto keep Sawtell, a crooked assay clerk, from stealing an old man's gold claim. Some months later the Lone Ranger and Tonto return to the area and find Sawtell is managing the Big Star Mine. Sawtell frames the Lone Ranger for an assault, then rigs a booby trap in the mine to kill the Ranger when he investigates. Later the Lone Ranger has to deliver cash and avoid robbers in order to save the Green Ridge stage line.

Pages: 39.000

Script: Fran Striker

Pencils: Charles Flanders

Inks: Charles Flanders

Notes: Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Three separate plots with reoccurring characters spliced together into one long story. Reprint dates verified from newspaper strips. The sequence from 1940.10.02 to 1940.12.21 is titled "Once a Crook" in the newspaper strips.

Title: The Lone Ranger and the Poisoned Water

Characters: Lone Ranger; Tonto; Silver (horse); Scout (horse)

Synopsis: The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into a strangely deserted town. There are no people and all the animals are asleep. They find a girl tied to a chair in a house. After they untie her, the three are forced into a mine by a deranged man, who proceeds to blast the entrance closed. All the townspeople are in the mine, having been brought there after drinking drugged water. Their captor, Sully, says he'll blast the entrance open if Dixon, the mine's owner, signs the mine over to him.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Fran Striker

Pencils: Charles Flanders

Inks: Charles Flanders

Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color. Reprint dates verified from the original newspaper strips.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	2	3	4	0	3	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	24
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	2	3	4	0	3	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	24

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