Trivquiz: Say, who was that masked man?

Why, it's Captain John Reid and Kemo Sabe, of course!

Clayton Moore passed away on December 28, 1999 at the age of 85. He was best known for playing The Lone Ranger on the classic TV show of the early 1950s, which I used to watch religously as a kid.

I have a vague memory of being really young and cutting out characters from a Lone Ranger comic and using them as sort of two dimensional toy figures.

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time … but a quick online search shows that some of those Dell Comics publications change hands for a tidy sum these days, so I may have vivisected a small fortune. If only six-year-old me had shown some foresight!

I’ve featured Moore and his co-star, Jay Silverheels, in a number of “Trivquiz” comics over the years, and in 2013, as the Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer movie version of the saga was coming out, I devoted my “Biographic” series to the history of The Lone Ranger.

It’s also worth mentioning that The Green Hornet is an actually a spin-off from The Lone Ranger. In the original stories, the masked vigilante is actually his great nephew, as I explain in this Biographic comic from 2010:

My daily comic “Badlands,” featuring Marshal Mask and his not-so-faithful sidekick Pongo, started life in British newspaper The Post in 1988 before running in the U.K.’s biggest newspaper, The Sun, for 12 years.

It was obviously inspired by the derring-do of The Lone Ranger and Tonto, so I will always have a soft spot for the duo known to the cognoscenti as Captain John Reid and Kemo Sabe!