The Lone Ranger #21

Dell's long-running western series delivers a full 52 pages of comics in this March 1950 issue, with the masked hero front and center atop a rearing Silver against a sun-baked frontier landscape. The Lone Ranger tips his white hat with a confident smile, blue domino mask firmly in place and twin holsters at his side — every bit the picture of frontier justice. Inside, writer Fran Striker and artist Charles Flanders bring their talents to "The Lone Ranger and The Plot to Kill Mr. Winters," promising the kind of action-packed western storytelling that made this series a staple of mid-century comics readers.