1940 Gum Inc Lone Ranger Checklist

1940 Gum Inc Lone Ranger trading cards are among the most popular sets of all time. The checklist is a simple 48 cards but the artwork of Charles Steinbacher is stunning and pops off of each card.

Cards were sold for a penny along with a “big piece of chewing gum”. Cards 37-48 are considered short prints and are incredibly difficult to find, resulting in full sets being quite rare in top condition.

The original concept for this set had a 60 card checklist and Steinbacher had produced artwork for those 12 additional cards. This art was discovered in his personal safe after his passing and the “Twelve Unpublished” were issued as an insert set for 1997 Dart Lone Ranger trading cards.

Collectors who sent in their wrappers could receive 8×10 pictures from this series. Five wrappers could be exchanged for one of these large prints and 25 wrappers could get the entire set of five. These premium flyers are also incredibly rare and can sell for several hundred dollars.

#	Card Title
1	A Silver Bullet Stops a Hanging
2	Tonto and the Secret Mine
3	Tonto’s Race with Death
4	The Giant Ghost
5	The Wrecked Stagecoach
6	Ghouls at Work
7	Poisoned Waters
8	Hawk’s Prey
9	The Fight over the Water Hole
10	The Substitute Dispatch Bearer
11	The Run-Away Herd
12	The Lasso Duel
13	The Counter Attack
14	The Underground River
15	The Tree Trap
16	Silver Charges the Horse Thieves
17	The Interrupted Coach Robbery
18	Barrier of Fire
19	The Burning Shack
20	Thirsty Burros
21	Saving Tonto’s Scalp
22	Firebrands on the Ledge
23	Threatening Hoofs
24	Smoke Signals
25	A Double Hold-up
26	The Vicious Circle
27	Midnight Branding Party
28	Trial of the Killer
29	Blasted Canyon
30	Tonto in War Paint
31	Dead Man’s Leap
32	The Phantom Rider
33	Paradise Regained
34	Fire Trap
35	The Haunted House
36	The Cattle Rush
37	His Father’s Son
38	Broken Windows
39	Smugglers’ Love Letters
40	A Piece of Gingham