"THE LONE RANGER" DAILY STRIPS ORIGINAL ART LOT.
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$287.50 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Thursday, July 16, 2015 1:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, July 16, 2015 1:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #215 - Part II
Item numbers 988 through 2613 in auction 215
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Item Description
Lot of four approx. 7x27.5" thin artboards w/original pen and ink art (w/screentone shading accents) for June 1941 daily strips. All art has been signed in ink at bottom of one panel by longtime Lone Ranger artist Charles Flanders. Also signed "OK Trendle" in ink in blank margin, Trendle being a reference to George Trendle, who co-created The Lone Ranger w/writer Fran Striker in Jan. 1933. Strips are dated June 12, 16-18 and each has four panels. The Lone Ranger is in total of three panels, Tonto is in three (all in first strip). Tonto is shown tending to wounded Lone Ranger w/bottle of "medicine" (actually poison) offered by captive Deputy. Next strip shows Deputy shooting arrow w/note from "The Ghost" attached into ground by prone man's body and then riding into town to summon the posse. Next strip shows posse leaving town and arriving by man's body. Last strip features posse discussing if "The Ghost" killed man or if it was Tonto. Applied screentone shading has yellowed w/age and is missing in a few places, leaving glue stains. Each strip has applied paste-over w/1941 The Lone Ranger Inc. copyright and notice of King Features Syndicate, Inc. distribution. Artboards have some scattered handling wear and a few production notations in margins, but art remains clean and is o/w VF. Superb and well-drawn throughout.
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