#The Lone Ranger and Tonto

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Preeeeesenting...the 2025 Pulptober Prompts!

Well, a bit later than I was hoping for, but less late thatn last years.

Check 'em out guys!

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(note: between this and the crosspost on my backup blog, I have tried to put in as many tags as possible, but A: since that inevitably ends up being more than tumblr allows, I cannot guarantee all of them made it through, and B: I'm sure there are tags I didn't think of, if people could let me know which ones didn't make it through/were missed, or even better add them to your own RBs, or best of all, both!)

1-The Shadow/Urban Adventurer

2-Doc Savage/Genius of Justice

3-The Green Hornet/Crimefighter With a Cool Car

4-Thompson and Thomson/Frenemy on the Force

5-The Lone Ranger/Music Maketh Man

6-Burma/Friendly Femme Fatale

7-The Golden Amazon/The World Will Bow Before Me!

8-Conan/The Journeying Hero

9-Tonto/Ethnic Sidekick

10-Diabolik/Mastermind of Crime

11-Pat Savage/Thirst For Adventure

12-Eddie Hark/Pulp Noir

13-Kato/Scientific Sidekick

14-Mexican Fantomas/Hero In translation

15-Dale Arden/Damsel In Distress

16-Planetary/Meta-Pulp

17-Hellboy/Hero Launcher

18-The Green Lama/Public Domain Pulp

19-The Punisher/Pulp From Pain

20-Sheena/Iconic Outfit

21-Imaro/Giant of Justice

22-Defenders of the Earth/Crimefighting Crossover

23-Lara Croft/Two Guns

24-Huang Rong/Prickly Pulp Heroes

25-Silver John/Lonesome Helper

26-El Santo/Masked Hero

27-Blade/Monster Slayer

28-The Spider/Heroism or Madness

29-MacGyver/Pulp Pacifism

30-Harry Vincent/Right Hand Man

31-Batman/Pulp? Hero

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Doofenshmirtz Bracket Incorporated

Phineas and Ferb

The Lone Ranger and Tonto

[krinsbez]

Rather late, but here's an art for Pulptober 6th, the day's Character, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), representing the Theme "The Mask Does What The Badge Can't".

Hank Hartman - The Lone Ranger Cover Painting Original Art (Dell, 1950s).

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The Lone Ranger (1949)

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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive.

Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, DeForest Kelley guest stars in "The Legion of Old Timers," episode 5 of the first season of The Lone Ranger (original air date October 6, 1949).

Kelley plays Bob Kittredge, a tenderfoot from back East who's just inherited his late father's ranch. He falls prey to a con man who drives away the ranch's faithful foreman (the eponymous "old timer") and tries to sell the land out from under him. The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and the old foreman ride to the rescue and good triumphs over evil until next week's episode.

Since there are no other Trek connections, allow me to just ramble a bit about The Lone Ranger and me. I've never seen the 1949-57 TV series before, but I'm told it was one of my Grandpa's favorites. I also never saw the 2013 movie, but people assure me I didn't miss much. This was around the time I was thinking, “Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp could use a break from each other,” and “Tim Burton and Johnny Depp could use a break from each other.”

The 1980 Filmation animated series was part of my regular Saturday morning cartoon experience as a little kid. I don't have a ton of clear memories of it, except that characters from American history made guest appearances/cameos, and it was part of a larger series with Tarzan and Zorro.

Several kids I knew had these Lone Ranger action figures, and they were really high quality. One line from the TV commercial jingle (set to the tune of the William Tell overture that became the Lone Ranger theme) went, “Let him ride in a covered wagon; let him hold a rifle in his hand,” and still gets stuck in my head decades later. One issue with this is that I've never been able to find a recording or video of this commercial ever since it aired in the 1980s. Another is that I, being unfamiliar with the term “covered wagon” at the time, thought he was riding in something called a “cupboard wagon” and immediately pictured the wagon from the Chuck Wagon dog food commercials (which, in all fairness the Lone Ranger action figure could have easily ridden in).

When I was a teenager, one of my mother's best friends married a man who claimed to be a cousin of Jay Silverheels, the actor who played Tonto. I have no idea if there was any merit to his claim. He had a signed picture of them together, but if every celebrity someone had a signed picture with was their cousin, the world would be a big, weird family.

Anyway, season's greetings from Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein.

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Tonto

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Jenny Nicholson #YourFaveIsAntiNative

From her video The Halloween Costumes Nobody Wanted.

She even explains why it's bad. "It's a stereotypical depiction of a racial group, it's sexualization, etc" so then why are you wearing it?

[lets-ignore-that]

watched the lone ranger again... loved it as a kid and still love it now, holds a special place in my heart. so i drew something for it!

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto by Gil Kane.

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The Lone Ranger #6

RIP John Cassaday

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Doofenshmirtz Bracket Incorporated

The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Lewis and Clark

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Tiny Review: Smoke Signals. One of the best road movies. MUST WATCH.

It’s a relatively unknown but highly acclaimed movie. I went into this with high hopes and was not disappointed.  

Go into blind and enjoy the story. MUST WATCH!

Smoke Signals is a 1998 coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Chris Eyre from a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). It stars Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, and Tantoo Cardinal.

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto door size posters (1957)

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"You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven