The Lone Ranger #7

This January 1949 Dell issue puts the masked hero front and center in a genuinely dynamic cover by Morris Gollub — the Lone Ranger clings to a rocky cliff face, hauling himself upward by rope while his faithful white horse Silver waits steadily at the top, reins trailing. A pair of birds wheel through the golden sky above, lending the scene a wonderful sense of open Western space. Inside, writer Fran Striker and artist Charles Flanders deliver "The Lone Ranger and the Pony Rider," a story that promises the kind of frontier adventure this series does so well.