The Lone Ranger #37 Values

Publisher: Dell, 1951

About The Lone Ranger #37

Painted cover. Back cover photo pin-up.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Lone Ranger; Tonto

Pencils: Ernest Nordli? (painting)

Inks: Ernest Nordli? (painting)

Colors: Ernest Nordli? (painting)

Notes: First cover with all-blue outfit. The change took place because the immensely popular T.V. show, featuring Clayton Moore, portrayed The Lone Ranger wearing a blue shirt. The SCOOP website reports "Noted collector Harry Thomas of Sweetwater, TN, however, has pointed out that there are still a precious few issues of The Lone Ranger #37 that may've gotten printed in the transition still feature him in a red shirt. As you can imagine, these are incredibly rare and valuable collector's items!"

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Cowboy's Boots

Synopsis: Facts about cowboy boots.

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Till Goodan (signed)

Inks: Till Goodan (signed)

Letters: Till Goodan?

Reprints: The Lone Ranger (Western, 1964 series) #4 (August 1966)

Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Half-art, half-text.

Title: The Crooked Gambler

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

Synopsis: Bolo Sherman's father cheats at poker and is killed by one of the men he cheated. He moves to a different town and needs the Lone Ranger's help to keep a thug from forcing his sweetheart's father to buy crooked gambling equipment.

Pages: 20.000

Script: Fran Striker?

Pencils: Charles Flanders

Inks: Charles Flanders

Notes: First interior story where the Lone Ranger's outfit is colored all-blue. In earlier issues he had a red shirt and blue pants.

Title: The Gold Mine Stock

Characters: Lone Ranger; Tonto; Dan Reid; Silver (horse); Scout (horse); Victor (horse)

Synopsis: Duped settlers take out 60-day mortgages to buy stock in a fake gold mine, and lose their property when they can't pay the mortgage.

Pages: 16.000

Script: Fran Striker?

Pencils: Charles Flanders

Inks: Charles Flanders

Notes: Lone Ranger's outfit is colored all-blue.

Title: Wolf Brother’s Hunting

Characters: Wolf Brother (intro)

Synopsis: Pawnee Wolf Brother finds an Arikara maiden in the ruins of a camp raided by the Hidatsas.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Jon Small

Inks: Jon Small

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with three illustrations; first in a continuing storyline. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Gaylord Du Bois’ personal records.

Title: The City of the Sun

Characters: Young Hawk; Little Buck; High Cloud

Synopsis: Young Hawk and Little Buck return from a hunting trip to find their captive Black Dog has been killed when he stole a canoe from an old Natchez Indian named High Cloud. They travel to the Natchez "City of the Sun" where they gain supplies and leave with High Cloud to go to the sea.

Pages: 9.500

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Jon Small

Inks: Jon Small

Notes: Part of a continuing storyline.

Title: White Mountain Sheep

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. (photograph)

Inks: American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. (photograph)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Back cover. Horizontal color photograph of a white mountain sheep diorama “courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.” with a few lines of text below.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	8
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	8

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