Four Color #82

In this 1945 Four Color comic, homesteader Mark Tanwick faces ruin when cattleman Cal Berman threatens to take his beloved horse Billy, his only remaining asset. The Lone Ranger and Tonto arrive just in time to intervene, uncovering a web of deceit as Mark reveals his crop has been ruined, his mortgage seized, and the $1,000 needed to save his land—supposedly coming from his bride-to-be Bertha—has gone missing. When the Ranger and Tonto reveal Bertha is safe and has been rescued from a stagecoach robbery that left a man dead, Cal’s guilt is exposed through careful sleuthing, with Bertha’s testimony sealing his fate. Cover by Gaylord Du Bois.