Though the new movie is bombing at the box office...
...we're continuing our re-presenting the classic adventures of the Masked Rider of the Plains and His Indian Companion...
The Origin Concludes...
Originally-presented in Dell's Lone Ranger #118 (1958), this tale by writer Paul S Newman and artist Tom Gill reflects the long-established history that was maintained in all the various media incarnations of the characters...except the first movie serial (which we'll be covering this weekend).
This consistency across all media is something lost to today's licensed characters, where movie, tv, and print versions all differ dramatically.
(Or, in the case of Marvel Comics, the comic books are modified to reflect the movie versions of the characters!)
Trivia: The narrator of the story is teenager Dan Reid, nephew of the Lone Ranger (John Reid) and future father of Britt Reid (The Green Hornet).
Dan will later found a newspaper in a major Midwest city (either Detroit or Chicago) called the Daily Sentinel (named after the Western newspaper mentioned in this story), which he later turns over to Britt.
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