Ta-i Kemo Sabe, welcome!
You have reached the home
of the Lone Ranger Fan
Club. Click on the links
below to explore the best
source of information on the
Web about the Lone Ranger
and Tonto. Be sure to click
on the "Join the Fan Club"
button to learn how to
become a Lone Ranger
Deputy and receive The
Silver Bullet newsletter!
TM
Lone Ranger and Tonto #1
This special one-shot comic takes place some time after the current series. It begins with the Lone
Ranger and Tonto buying supplies from a store run by a kindly old man and his wife. The wife gives them
some extra food in thanks for all they have done. As the Lone Ranger and Tonto leave town, they spot
vultures circling nearby. They Arrive to find an overturned wagon and a dead man and woman beside it in
sleeping bags. Just then the Lone Ranger is attacked by a boy, but Tonto knocks him down. The boy
doesn't talk. The two take the boy back into town and leave him in the custody of the storekeepers. They
return to the scene to bury the dead people. Before digging, the Lone Ranger realizes that everything of
value is gone except the shovel. A quick search finds all the belongings in a hole.
The Lone Ranger finds a letter and upon reading it races back to town. The letter was from the
woman's brother. He talked about the boy, named James, having serious problems and being a danger.
He urges the couple to bring James to Salt Lake City where he could get some help. The Lone Ranger
and Tonto arrive in town to find a man dead in the street and another blaming them for his death because
they brought the killer youth to them. Inside the store they find the storekeeper and his wife murdered and
all the guns and ammunition taken.
Outside the Lone Ranger has to stop a lynch mob that is forming. He and Tonto take off after the boy
and track him up a mountain. They have a long stand-off with the boy, who is well armed, but has no food
or water. That evening they sneak up on the lad and stop him. But James tosses dirt in the Ranger's face,
causing him to drop his gun. James picks it up, but Tonto hits him in the arm with a knife, causing the gun
to fall to the edge of a cliff. The Ranger begs James to not go after it, but the boy does and he falls to his
death. The Lone Ranger and Tonto take James' body back to town, where the Ranger admonishes the
gathering mob. Afterward, they ride off together into the sunrise.