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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 51
Left: Pulp magazine #1, April 1937; Trojan Publishing Corp.; cover by Kidd. See the FictionMags Index for a detailed history of the fiction magazines. Right: Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. Image from the Howard Frank Archives.
The masked man and his friend emerged in 1933 on the radio in Detroit, created by George W. Trendel, and written by Fran Striker. Like The Shadow and Sherlock Holmes, the Lone Ranger uses various disguises, such as: an old miner, a southern gentleman, and a professor of a medicine wagon. Like Zorro and The Shadow before him, and Batman after, the Lone Ranger's masked appearance and mysterious comings and goings strike fear in the lawless. The Lone Ranger and Tonto are two of the most important post-Big Six factors in the reinstatement of myth and pop culture as a central focus of modern life. Jeff Rovin, in his 1985 The Encyclopedia of Super Heroes, says of the Lone Ranger, "...with the exception of Superman, he is arguably the most successful superhero."
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