(January 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- 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 "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 443." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #443-531. Copyright 1952 by Western Printing and Lithographing. First of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.
The Beaver Trapper
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- Facts about beaver trappers.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations and typeset text.
Hostage of the Huron
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- William Overgard ?; Jon Small ?
- Inks:
- Jon Small
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
- Synopsis:
- Ben Bowie and young Jim Prentice find a burned wilderness cabin, reminding Ben of the circumstances in which he found Jim three years earlier. After finding a woman and her young child alive in a hidden cellar in the ruins of the cabin, the four take off in pursuit of Huron Indians who killed the woman's brother and captured her husband. On the way they meet up with trapper Zeke Moss and his blood brother Nakah, an Iroquois Indian. The group finds the Huron camp and after rescuing the captive, Ben, Jim, Zeke, and Nakah decide to stay together.
Indexer Notes
Introduction of main characters. Overgard pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (2007-05-14); Small pencils credit by Hames Ware (2011-06-20). Inks credit by Merlin Haas (2007-07-14) and Hames Ware (2011-06-20).
Trapped
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jon Small
- Inks:
- Jon Small
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Jim Prentice; Ben Bowie
- Synopsis:
- Jim is cornered by a bear in the forest, but manages to escape. With Ben's help he tracks the bear to its den.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits from Hames Ware (2011-06-20).
The Mission
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jon Small
- Inks:
- Jon Small
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Ben Bowie; Zeke Moss; Nakah; Jim Prentice (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Zeke and Nakah make a dangerous run with a wagon of ammunition to a fort under siege by Algonquin Indians.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits from Hames Ware (2011-06-20).
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
The Beaver Trapper
-
2.
Hostage of the Huron
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
3.
Trapped
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
4.
The Mission
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
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- 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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