Lone Ranger separate owners and the familial link has been ignored in the Western character's various incarnations. The Lone Ranger – Green Hornet connection is part of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, which connects disparate fictional characters. Republic Pictures released two serials starring the Lone Ranger. The first, released in 1938, utilized several actors playing different men portraying the masked hero, with the true Lone Ranger unknown to the audience until the conclusion; the character played by Lee Powell is ultimately revealed to be the Lone Ranger. The second serial, "The Lone Ranger Rides Again", was released in 1939 and starred
The Lone Ranger (serial) of "Dick Tracy Returns" later in 1938. It was filmed between 28 November and 31 December 1937. At nineteen days, this was the shortest production for a Republic serial until "Zombies of the Stratosphere" in 1952. The serial's production number was 794. The bulk of the outdoor action in the serial "The Lone Ranger" was filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., where Republic shot virtually all of its serials, along with most of its B-Westerns, during the studio's life span — and where the later TV series "The Lone Ranger" would also shoot much of its outdoor