THE LONE RANGER "He Finds Dan Reid" Part 1

You may know that Dan Reid is both The Lone Ranger's nephew...

...and The Green Hornet's father.

But do you know he appeared in both characters' radio shows and comic books, making Dan one of pop culture's first "crossover" characters?

Will The Lone Ranger's uncanny aim enable him to save the officer without killing the Apache?

Will he find any clues as to where his nephew is...or even if Dan is alive?

You'll find the startling conclusion, along with background info and other goodies, Tuesday, at our "brother" blog...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™

Adapted from a radio show episode of the same name, this story from Dell's Lone Ranger Golden West #3 (1955) was pencilled by Tom Gill, but the inking looks a lot like John Severin, not Gill himself.
This entry is part of our Retroblogs™ Masks Marathon, celebrating the new Dynamite comic series Masks which combines, for the first time, the major masked mystery men of pulps and comics including The Green Hornet, The Shadow, The Spider, Zorro, The Black Terror, The Green Lama, and Miss Fury (ok, a masked mystery woman), among others.
Though The Lone Ranger hasn't been listed as participating, The Green Hornet (and by extenssion, Dan Reid), are in the story.
(Besides, Zorro is making an appearance, so there's always a possibility...)

We'll be presenting more never-reprinted stories featuring these characters throughout the month of December.

ZORRO "Mark of Zorro" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Swashbuckling Hero...

Don Diego Vega, secretly the masked man known as Zorro, battles oppression of the middle and working-class citizens of Los Angeles while romancing (as the dashing Zorro), Lolita, the beautiful daughter of caballero Don Carlos!

However, corrupt Captain Ramon lusts for Lolita, and when spurned by her, orders her family's arrest on trumped-up charges!

This book-length tale in Dell's Four Color #228 (1949) was adapted from the novella "Curse of Capistrano" by Johnston McCulley.

(The title "Mark of Zorro" was first used for the 1920 silent film adapting "Curse" and starring Douglas Fairbanks as Zorro/Don Diego.

Since then, when the story is reprinted, it tends to use the "Mark of Zorro" title instead of "Curse".)

The writer of the comic adaptation is unknown, but the artist is Bill Ely, who has several hundred comic stories from 1937 to 1967 to his credit.

Dell Comics continued this series of Zorro one-shot tales on an irregular basis in Four Color until the debut of the Walt Disney Zorro TV series, which they began adapting into comic books.
In an early example of rewriting continuity, the later stories ignore the fact that Zorro's secret identity is now known to the other residents of Los Angeles!

This entry is part of our Retroblogs™ Masks Marathon, celebrating the new Dynamite comic series Masks which combines, for the first time, the major masked mystery men of pulps and comics including The Green Hornet, The Shadow, The Spider, Zorro, The Black Terror, The Green Lama, and Miss Fury (ok, a masked mystery woman), among others.

We'll be presenting more never-reprinted stories featuring these characters throughout the month of December.

Visit our 

Western Comics online store...

...for duds and provisions!

ZORRO "Mark of Zorro" Part 1

Here's a fascinating version of the classic story...

...which is not based on either the 1920 or 1940 movies, but the original (1919) novelette, "Curse of Capistrano"!

The story continues at Hero Histories™ tomorrow!

This book-length tale in Dell's Four Color #228 (1949) was adapted from the novella "Curse of Capistrano" by Johnston McCulley.

(The title "Mark of Zorro" was first used for the 1920 silent film adapting "Curse" and starring Douglas Fairbanks as Zorro/Don Diego.

Since then, when the story is reprinted, it tends to use the "Mark of Zorro" title instead of "Curse".)

The writer of the comic adaptation is unknown, but the artist is Bill Ely, who has several hundred comic stories from 1937 to 1967 to his credit.

This entry is part of our Retroblogs™ Masks Marathon, celebrating the new Dynamite comic series Masks which combines, for the first time, the major masked mystery men of pulps and comics including The Green Hornet, The Shadow, The Spider, Zorro, The Black Terror, The Green Lama, and Miss Fury (ok, a masked mystery woman), among others.

We'll be presenting more never-reprinted stories featuring these characters throughout the month of December.

Visit our 
 Western Comics online store...

...for duds and provisions!