The Lone Ranger #117

This March 1958 Dell issue puts the masked man front and center in a tense live-action photo cover, showing the Lone Ranger in his signature blue outfit and black mask squaring off in what looks like a dusty frontier standoff, with two figures closing in from behind. The cover tagline — "Only the masked man could help 'The Cornered Sheriff!'" — sets up a story of a lawman in desperate need of a hero. Writer Paul S. Newman and artist/inker Tom Gill bring Western adventure to life in a ten-cent package that captures everything readers loved about the character in 1958.