The Other Lone Ranger

Clayton Moore is synonymous with the Lone Ranger.  He played the character in The Lone Ranger television series that aired on ABC from 1949 to 1957.  But he wasn’t the only actor to do so. Moore departed the series after the second season, only to be rehired a...

The Lone Ranger Conquers Comics

The Lone Ranger and Tonto did not always get along Topps Comics produced a four-part story in 1994 that pulled no punches for this duo.  Literally. The first panel of the first story depicts Tonto slugging the Lone Ranger, an inconceivable action given the historical...

The Day the Lone Ranger Lost His Mask

As dawn anticipated breaking over southern California on the morning of August 30, 1979, a man two weeks shy of his sixty-fifth birthday covered his thinning hair with a cowboy hat.  Besides the hairline, age was not a serious opponent.  He was still fit and trim with...