Lone Ranger played by Al Hodge, who in contemporary times, fights crime with a similar secret identity and a sidekick, Kato. In the Green Hornet comic book series published by NOW Comics, the Lone Ranger makes a cameo appearance by being in a portrait in the Reid home. Contrary to most visual media depictions, and acknowledged by developer/original script writer Ron Fortier to be the result of legal complications, his mask covers all of his face, as it did in the two serials from Republic Pictures (see below). However, rights to The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet have been acquired by
Lone Ranger an ongoing series by the same team. On September 15, 2006, Dynamite Entertainment announced that "The Lone Ranger" #1 had sold out its first printing. A second printing of the first issue was announced; a first for the company. The series has received an Eisner Awards nomination for best new series in 2007. "True West" magazine awarded the publication the "Best Western Comic Book of the Year" in their 2009 "Best of The West Source Book!" And in 2010 Dynamite released "The Lone Ranger Avenges the Death of Zorro". The second volume of the series by Dynamite was issued in