You’ve certainly heard about the new Lone Ranger movie coming out in just a few days. But did you know Jack Kirby drew the masked man for a Mattel card game back in 1971?
There’s not a lot of information out there on these, but according to Mark Evanier, Mattel hired Kirby who hired Mike Royer to do the inks. Enjoy:
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The hole is where the card carry case went. Here’s the back:
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Aren’t those fantastic?
Here’s a few of the cards too:
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The card of the Lone Ranger on Silver the horse sure looks like it could be by long-time LR comic book artist Tom Gill. I don’t know about those floating Ranger and Tonto heads. They look a little forlorn.
Yeah, those are disturbing.
That would be awesome if that was Gill!