The Lone Ranger #8

This February 1949 Dell issue puts the masked man front and center in a pulse-quickening moment — the Lone Ranger, red-shirted and star-badged, stretches from the back of his white horse Silver to grab hold of a moving green stagecoach or rail car, while a second rider presses close behind in pursuit. Morris Gollub's cover art captures the dust and urgency of the Old West with clean, confident linework that suits the story within, "The Lone Ranger on the Trail of a Criminal." At just a dime, this King Features Comic delivered exactly the kind of wide-open Western adventure readers were hungry for in 1949.