Lone Rider

Derby Publishing’s Lone Rider is a single-issue Western comic from 1951, a brief but self-contained entry in the postwar saddle-and-six-gun genre. Though it launched with only one number, it stands as a snapshot of the era’s pulp-inspired cowboy heroics, typical of Derby’s modest but earnest line. The title is most associated with its cover artist and writer, who crafted a straightforward tale of frontier justice. While it never expanded into a series, this lone issue remains a curiosity for collectors of obscure Western one-shots.