The Lone Ranger?

[Cherokee Jack]

What th?

I happened to notice this cover on the back of my Gerber book today:


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=206707&zoom=4

[Red Oak Kid]

Yeah, I saw those too. I was hoping Scott! Shaw could find a copy to feature on the Oddball site.

[Lone Ranger]

Like most of the David McKay titles, I think this one was mostly newspaper strip reprints.

I believe the Charles Flanders Lone Ranger strip would appear in this book.

I think the Phantom may have been a feature in Future Comics as well.

Ray Rivard would know best - he's got a lot of this very early Golden Age stuff.

[Red Oak Kid]

Can LR or anyone else answer this question:

Why did the comic book Lone Ranger change the color of his shirt from red to blue?

[Lone Ranger]

Can LR or anyone else answer this question:

Why did the comic book Lone Ranger change the color of his shirt from red to blue?

For what it's worth - the GCD implies that the shirt was changed to match the TV show.

Lone Ranger 37 (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=9038)

[Ray R.]

Like most of the David McKay titles, I think this one was mostly newspaper strip reprints.

I believe the Charles Flanders Lone Ranger strip would appear in this book.

I think the Phantom may have been a feature in Future Comics as well.

Ray Rivard would know best - he's got a lot of this very early Golden Age stuff.

I knew my ears were burning.

I have a Future Comics #3 and #4. They were, as Scott points, out reprint books along the lines of other David McKay strip reprint collections like Ace Comics (led by the Katzenjammer Kids and Dagwood) and King Comics (showcasing Popeye, among others). In their short history, they're known for their publication of early Phantom newspaper Sunday pages as well as Lone Ranger strips and Sunday pages (both circa 1936). Future Comics only had four issues, all published in 1940. There are three Future Comics comics in the Mile-High (Edgar Church) collection, all in very fine to near mint range, so I will never be able to afford them, ever.

Cool cover, by the way.

[MWGallaher]

So what newspaper strip featured the (presumably) villainous Chickenhead who appeared on the covers? Was it a Buck Rogers imitation, maybe?

(Oddball enough to top the words "Future Comics" with "The Lone Ranger", but Chickenhead really puts it over the top! This would be an easy 5 if Scott Shaw! were ever to feature it.)

[Ray R.]

So what newspaper strip featured the (presumably) villainous Chickenhead who appeared on the covers? Was it a Buck Rogers imitation, maybe?

(Oddball enough to top the words "Future Comics" with "The Lone Ranger", but Chickenhead really puts it over the top! This would be an easy 5 if Scott Shaw! were ever to feature it.)


The Chickenhead guy is a complete mystery to me. I'll pull my #3 and #4 and see if he shows up.

My guess as to the protagonist off the top of my head versus Chickenhead is either Brick Bradford (most likely) or Secret Agent X-9 (less likely). I'll check....

[Lone Ranger]

OK - I did a little research. I was a professional student for years and years.

According to Ron Goulart's Comic Book Culture, it is an Italian newspaper strip called Saturno Contro le Terra (Saturn Against the Earth) created by Cesare Zavattini (who apparently later did some work with Fellini), written by Federico Pedrocchi and drawn by Giovanni Scolari (who later drew a comic strip about Mussolini).

Apparently it was shopped to US newspapers, but no one picked it up so King Features dumped it in Future Comics - each story was only 4 pages.

[Sir Tim Drake]

OK - I did a little research. I was a professional student for years and years.

According to Ron Goulart's Comic Book Culture, it is an Italian newspaper strip called Saturno Contro le Terra (Saturn Against the Earth) created by Cesare Zavattini (who apparently later did some work with Fellini), written by Federico Pedrocchi and drawn by Giovanni Scolari (who later drew a comic strip about Mussolini).

Apparently it was shopped to US newspapers, but no one picked it up so King Features dumped it in Future Comics - each story was only 4 pages.

Oh, now I remember having heard of this. It appeared on JM Lofficer's list of the top 100 European comics.

[GreenHornet]

Hey did any 1 know that the Lone Ranger is related to the Green Hornet?



....anyone?......................hello?........... .................damn I hate being a 1 person fan.............I wonder what mother is fixing for dinner?????

[prince hal]

I think most posters here are aware of that and other familial relationships, such as

Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl and Validus;

Bruce "Batman" Wayne and General "Mad" Anthony Wayne

Alfred Pennyworth and Mlle. Marie.

Green Lantern and Air Wave;

Matt "trail Boss" Savage and Brian "Sclphunter" Savage and I'm pretty sure Steve "Ballon Buster" Savage...Was Vandal "Supervillain" Savage tied in to that, too?

[DoubleWide]

Hey did any 1 know that the Lone Ranger is related to the Green Hornet?



....anyone?......................hello?........... .................damn I hate being a 1 person fan.............I wonder what mother is fixing for dinner?????

I knew that, Britt Reid is the descendant of The Lone Rangers brother.

[Roquefort Raider]

I learned of their connection on this very board.

Now that I know Glovehat is not a Lone Ranger, he can suffer the indignity of facing other goofy-looking characters!!!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/RoquefortRaider/Future.jpg

[Lone Ranger]

Wow - another character 'borrowed' by Marvel.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/Avengers152.jpg

[Roquefort Raider]

Oh my gawd!

Has Black Talon ever fought Gamecock???

Or did they both chicken out?

[Cei-U!]

Matt "trail Boss" Savage and Brian "Sclphunter" Savage and I'm pretty sure Steve "Ballon Buster" Savage...Was Vandal "Supervillain" Savage tied in to that, too?

Maybe, although Vandal Savage's real name is Vandar Agd. DC's never even hinted at a connection as far as I know.*

Cei-U!
I summon the sequoia of family trees!

*Which ain't all that far, where the last 20 years' of continuity is concerned.