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 Texas Ranger the hears and minds of the townspeople. "Lone Texas Ranger" (1945) was based on the characters created in Fred Harman’s comic strip, Red Ryder. The film was premiered in Los Angeles on May 20, 1945 and then opened June 11, 1945. The film was later re-released on July 22, 1949. Lone Texas Ranger Lone Texas Ranger is a 1945 American Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet starring Wild Bill Elliott in the role of Red Ryder and costarring as Little Beaver, actor "(Bobby)" Robert Blake. It was the eighth of twenty-three Red Ryder feature films that would be produced