(September 1948)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Zane Grey's 'SPIRIT OF THE BORDER,' No. 197". Code number is S.B.O.S. #197-489. Copyright 1948 by Zane Grey.
Some Weapons and Useful Gear of the Eastern Woodland Indians
filler / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Fact
- Synopsis:
- Facts about Eastern Woodland Indians' weapons, ceremonial items and garments.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover and inside back cover; black, red, and white. Illustrations with hand-lettered text. Art identification from Richard Richmond via GCD Error List 2012-05-16.
The Spirit of the Border
comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Zane Grey (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Period
- Characters:
- Lew Wetzel; Simon Girty; Jim Girty; Joe Downs; Jim Downs
- Synopsis:
- Set in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, the story features Lew Wetzel, who has dedicated his life to the destruction of Indians and to the protection of white settlements. Two brothers, Jim and Joe Downs, arrive with a party of Moravian missionaries, who are attempting to convert the Indians. The brothers' lives take different paths but they eventually meet again as captives in a Delaware Indian village.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1906 novel "The Spirit of the Border" by Zane Grey. This is the second of a trilogy which begins with "Betty Zane" and concludes with "The Last Trail."
[Frontiersman]
illustration / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
Content Information
- Genre:
- Period
- Synopsis:
- A kneeling frontiersman of the late 18th Century, with rifle and powder horn.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Art identification from Richard Richmond via GCD Error List 2012-05-16.
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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