Dynamite’s ‘Lone Ranger’ to End with Issue #25

Robert Greenberger

Robert Greenberger is best known to comics fans as the editor of Who's Who In The DC Universe, Suicide Squad, and Doom Patrol. He's written and edited several Star Trek novels and is the author of The Essential Batman Encyclopedia. He's known for his work as an editor for Comics Scene, Starlog, and Weekly World News, as well as holding executive positions at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

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17 Responses

  1. Brandon Barrows says:

    Just curious: where the does the “3 million comic books” figure come from? That must be total issues sold over the course of the franchise, and even so would be a bit misleading to people without an understanding of comics.

    • mike weber says:

      Well, considering that the passage in question begins “Since the show’s premiere broadcast in 1933…”, at it lists a bunch of other huge numbers (like “…more than 2,900 Lone Ranger radio programs…”), i think that the implication that the number is from all sources is fairly clear.

      • Brandon Barrows says:

        It’s misleading, as I said, to the uninitiated because 2900 radio programs, 500 TV shows…3 million comic books, makes it seem as if they produced 3 million different comic books as they did 2900 radio shows and 500 tv episodes. I just think it’s a poor choice of words to represent the data.

        • mike weber says:

          Well, yeah. I can see your point.

          But if you say “Steven King has sold seventy million {or whatever} books…”, you generally don’t find people believing that King (as prolific as he is) has *written* seventy million books, which is sort of the angle i was looking at it from.

          • Brandon Barrows says:

            Well that’s my point exactly; it doesn’t say they sold three million comic books, it says they produced x number of this, x number of that and 3 million comic books. It’s either weaselspeak, as they say on wikipedia, or someone who just wasn’t thinking about how it would sound when they wrote the press release.

  2. Brandon Barrows says:

    Just curious: where the does the "3 million comic books" figure come from? That must be total issues sold over the course of the franchise, and even so would be a bit misleading to people without an understanding of comics.

    • mike weber says:

      Well, considering that the passage in question begins "Since the show's premiere broadcast in 1933…", at it lists a bunch of other huge numbers (like "…more than 2,900 Lone Ranger radio programs…"), i think that the implication that the number is from all sources is fairly clear.

      • Brandon Barrows says:

        It's misleading, as I said, to the uninitiated because 2900 radio programs, 500 TV shows…3 million comic books, makes it seem as if they produced 3 million different comic books as they did 2900 radio shows and 500 tv episodes. I just think it's a poor choice of words to represent the data.

        • mike weber says:

          Well, yeah. I can see your point.But if you say "Steven King has sold seventy million {or whatever} books…", you generally don't find people believing that King (as prolific as he is) has *written* seventy million books, which is sort of the angle i was looking at it from.

          • Brandon Barrows says:

            Well that's my point exactly; it doesn't say they sold three million comic books, it says they produced x number of this, x number of that and 3 million comic books. It's either weaselspeak, as they say on wikipedia, or someone who just wasn't thinking about how it would sound when they wrote the press release.

  3. Anonymous says:

    The smart money is on weaselspeak.

  4. Anonymous says:

    The smart money is on weaselspeak.

  5. Alex says:

    I read the first dozen issues, but the delays killed it for me. I’m not surprised that there have only been another 12 or so issues since I stopped reading like three years ago. I’d like to get the trades but by the time they come out I’ll probably have forgotten.

  6. Alex says:

    I read the first dozen issues, but the delays killed it for me. I’m not surprised that there have only been another 12 or so issues since I stopped reading like three years ago. I’d like to get the trades but by the time they come out I’ll probably have forgotten.

  7. Alex says:

    I read the first dozen issues, but the delays killed it for me. I'm not surprised that there have only been another 12 or so issues since I stopped reading like three years ago. I'd like to get the trades but by the time they come out I'll probably have forgotten.

  8. Delmo Walters Jr. says:

    I like it but wasn’t crazy about John Reid being much younger than Tonto, instead of them being about the same age. The budding romance between(spoiler warning)Tonto and Dan Reid’s mom is weird.

  9. Delmo Walters Jr. says:

    I like it but wasn't crazy about John Reid being much younger than Tonto, instead of them being about the same age. The budding romance between(spoiler warning)Tonto and Dan Reid's mom is weird.