Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 24 -- Underground Rivers in the Comics
Lone Ranger Chewing Gum allowed a trading-card sized
underground river adventure. We'll retype the 1949
saga, as the card's a bit hard to read.
A deafening roar and the Lone Ranger and Silver were
catapulted by sliding rocks into an underground river!
Swimming with the current, the man and horse were
whisked around a bend in the cave. It brought them
into a tourchlit room. Four men were tugging at a
chest, one of which had just been blasted away. When
they saw the swimming figure, two of them drew a
bead on him. While hot lead danced overhead, he
seam underwater. Soon, the river shallowed. As he
emerged, our of sight of the gunmen, he stepped on
something that clinked. Spanish doubloons! The blast
had blown gold pieced right through the rock! The
forturen that Senor Lopez was said to have secreted on
his property! He looked at the rocky bank. A chink of
light! He stood on Silver's back and lassoed a
stalactite. By this means he pulled himself up through
the opening. "Drop the gold and reach!" he shouted at
the desperadoes from his vantage point. "That
dynamite charge was too strong for your own good!
But it saved the day for Lopez," he added.
And no cowboy list would be complete without the King of the Cowboys, Roy Rogers. We'll limit
ourselves to just one of his comic book adventures, "River of Gold," in which Roy helps the FBI
"River of Gold"
Roy Rogers Comics # 48
December 1951
The front cover, Roy looking into the sun. The back cover, on
the other hand, shows Boys Clubs what a cowboy rides, other
than his horse.
As for where the River of Adventure takes Roy, we can read the source material.
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