Four Color #641 - Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon
(October 1955)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
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Issue Notes

Indicia title is "Milton Caniff's STEVE CANYON, No 641." "Copyright 1955 by Field Enterprises, Inc." Code number is S.C.O.S #641-5510.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Steve Canyon / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)

Genre
adventure; spy
Characters
Steve Canyon; Tuck Tucker
Reprints
Keywords
submarines

Indexer Notes

Art is by the artist of the cover of Jungle Jim (Dell, 1954 series) #9.

A Pledge to Parents (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[T-Bomb Experiment] (Table of Contents: 2)

Steve Canyon / comic story / 34 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Ray Bailey; Milton Caniff ? (see notes)
Inks
Ray Bailey; Milton Caniff (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
This circle, Colonel Canyon, is a forty-mile zone around the Pacific island of of Ebee!
Feature Logo
Steve Canyon
Genre
adventure; spy
Characters
Steve Canyon; Tuck Tucker; Narita; Professor Nesbitt; Angelica
Synopsis
Steve Canyon is sent to the Philippines as an undercover agent to keep enemy spies from observing the results of a test of a "T-Bomb" on the Pacific island of Ebee.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Milton Caniff only drew and inked Steve Canyon's heads in the story. Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Atomic bomb explosion depicted on inside back cover as part of story.
According to information in the foreword of "Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: The Complete Series" (Hermes Press, 2011) #1, Milton Caniff inked the heads of the Steve Canyon character.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Steve Canyon
  2. 1. A Pledge to Parents
  3. 2. [T-Bomb Experiment]
    Steve Canyon
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Walls