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==Other media==
The series also inspired numerous comic books, two movie serials, books, a live action television series (1949-1957) starring Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger (which is probably the best know treatment of the franchise.)

===Film Serials===
The Lone Ranger Republic serial is something of an enigma to many serial and Lone Ranger fans, because it is very rare and hard to find. The few prints that are in circulation do not contain the complete serial and are usualy either subtitled in Spanish or dubbed in French. Stanley Andrews played the title charecter. The second serial, The Lone Ranger Rides Again, came out in 1939 and starred Robert Livingston. The only known reels of it were discovered in Mexico and have Spanish subtitles.

===Television Series===
A much more well known and influential adaptation of the Lone Ranger was the (1949-1957) television series starring Clayton Moore (though with John Hart as the Lone Ranger from 1952-1954) and Jay Silverheels as Tonto, including one featuring the voice of William Conrad (radio's Matt Dillon) as the Lone Ranger. The live-action TV series featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. He was also narrator for 7 episodes of the radio series in 1949, 1950 and 1952. Fred Foy served as announcer of both the radio and TV series from 1948 to 1954. The series was popular enough to spawn two feature films, The Lone Ranger (1956), and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)

===The Return of the Lone Ranger===
An attempt by CBS to revive the series in 1961, Return of the Lone Ranger, did not get past the pilot stage. The Lone Ranger was played by Tex Hill in the pilot.

===The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)===
So far, no modern remake of The Lone Ranger has proven popular, with 1981's Legend of the Lone Ranger causing much upset among fans when a movie studio filed a suit to prevent Clayton Moore from appearing as the Lone Ranger anywhere else; the film was a spectacular failure. It did not help that the lead actor's lines had to be overdubbed by another actor.

===The Lone Ranger (2003)===
In 2003 the WB network aired a two hour Lone Ranger TV movie, the pilot for a possible series. However the movie was greeted unenthusiastically and the project was shelved.

===Animation===
An animated series of the Lone Ranger ran from 1966 to 1968 on CBS; the show lasted thirty episodes (many split into two or three adventures, so that there were 65 installments in total), and the last episode aired on the 9th of March 1968. The Lone Ranger was featured, along with Zorro and Tarzan in "Adventure Hour" cartoon shorts in the early 1980s. This time he had 14 episodes, split into two adventures at a time, for a total of 28 stories.

===Novels===
The first Lone Ranger novel appeared in 1936, and ran to 18 volumes. The first book was written by Gaylord Dubois, but the others by Francis Hamilton Striker. Striker also re-edited, and re-wrote parts of later editions of the first novel.

===Comic Books===
In 1948 Dell launched a comic book series which lasted 145 issues. This originally consisted of reprints from the newspaper strips, but later original content began with #7. Tonto got his own spin-off title in 1951, which lasted 31 issues, followed by Silver the horse in 1952, which ran to 34 issues. In addition Dell published three big Lone Ranger Annuals, and an adaptation of the 1956 film.

The Dell series ended in 1962, but Gold Key began a new Lone Ranger series, reprinting material from the Dell comics, in 1964. Original content only began with issue #21, in 1975, but the magazine itself folded with issue #28 in 1977. Additionaly, Hemmets Journal AB published a three-part Swedish Lone Ranger the same year. In 1994 Topps produced a four issue mini-series, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto". 

Gaylord DuBois wrote many of the Lone Ranger, Tonto and Silver comic books for both Dell and Gold Key. He developed Silver, in the Hi Yo Silver comics as a hero in his own right.

In the June 2006 issue of Diamond Comic Distributors' Previews, Dynamite Entertainment solicited a new Lone Ranger series in for shipping in August. It is unclear if it is to be a mini or an ongoing series.

===Comic Strip===
King Features Syndicate distributed a newspaper strip of the Lone Ranger from September 1938 to December 1971. The original artist was Ed Kressy, but he was replaced in 1939 by Charles Flanders who drew the strip until its conclusion. [3]