Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-02

adven ures
hI "N'"h" are printed in
French, Spanish and a few other
languages.
But who created him? Who
is the real Lone Ranger? He's
a fellow Detroiter. and it's high
time you met HIM.
His name appears in this and
scores Of other newspapers,
every day Of the week. But,
without skipping back TO the
comic page, can you remember
his name?
Oh, you can, en-? That's right.
Fran Striker
Going home from a late movie
some night. you might meet him
In Grand Circus Park. going 10
work at midnight.
An energetic young man,
somewhere along In his sos, he
isn't given TO the temperamental
>auirks usually attributed to
uthors. but he has q few pc
Htuliarities. and one OF them IL
going to work In the middle OF
the night.
How he started doing II. he
doesn't exactly know. He got
used To working nights, and now,
when he can work pretty much
when he pleases, he finds he
can do his best work from mid
night 10 or $50 a. IN. Be
sides. it's quiet then. and there's
nobody To bother him.
So. every night around mid
night he leaves his Crosse Pointe
home and goes down tn his Of
flee In the Stroh Building and
figures out what the next ad-
venture OF the Lone Ranger
will be.
Along about dsybreak. he goes
homes. catches A nap, gets Up
10 have breakfast when his
family This wife. Janet. and
three little Rangers. Bob u.
Don. 10. and Francis Jr., 81
are having lunch.
In the afternoon he goes
downtown again 10 answer fan
mail, and have conferences with
other writers who have been
added from time 10 time TO
help him with the daily flood Of
fiction that he produces.
He gets home again in the
latter part of the afternoon,
thinkers around the house. reads,
plays with the children and has
supper. Sometimes he goes 10
sleep again in the evening but
not always. And AT midnight
it's time for a cup OF coffee
before he goes 10 work.
They're unusual hours"
Striker admits. but I see a.
much Of my family az most men
do. and probably more"
4 The Lone Ranger began as a
radio serial. George w. Trendle.
~ WXYZ. was sparring with one
Of the big networks, and got
Striker. then in Buffalo. 10
create a character like Zane
Greys Lone Star Ranger
From there on in Striker took
II and created the worlds best
-knemH- gHh-totfn i-r1der Of me
west.
Now the Lone Ranger gall
Tops through comic strips. comic
books. novels and movies.
"Some Of his colIoquial Ian
guage. translated into other
languages. sounds pretty funny
sometimes" Striker says Boy,
IL must be n job, TRANSMITTING"
Writing that much would be
enough 10 wiring most men dry
in a few weeks. Not Striker.
He not only has kept the Lone
Ranger going for 10 years. in
all its various fictional forms.
but has added some others along
with 1.-THE Green Hornet. Ned
Jordan, Federal Ace. the Grim
son Fang. and Thrills of the
Secret Service. He also super
vises the Challenge of the Yu-
kon.
He writes seven days week.
year in and year out, and for a
big part Of the time he was
turning out $4,000 to $4,000
words a week. A good many
novels are less than $4,000
words. the Bible is $4,000. so
Striker was doing the equiva-
lent OF four books year the
size of the Bible.
All this was In addition to
supervising movies, hunting up
new ideas, helping his three sons
with their hobbies and tending
10 his own (making fireworks;
Making photographs. both still
Ind motion pictures, some In
color and tinkering around the
house, which he enjoys.
4 With the addition of assistant
writers Bob Green and two
others, at presenD he has cut
his wordage down 10 around 49,
600 a week. It's still enough to
make any author shudder.
Tomorrow: How he gets his