(May 1954)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Paper Stock:
- Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 557." Code number is BEN.B.O.S. #554-545 (Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1954 by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. Third of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.
How to Tan a Deerhide
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Frank Thorne [as FT]
- Inks:
- Frank Thorne [as FT]
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- non-fiction
- Synopsis:
- Directions for tanning a deerhide.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text. Art id by Martin Olsen via the Error Tracker (January 2009).
The Wilderness Trail
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Frank Thorne
- Inks:
- Frank Thorne
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- historical
- Characters:
- Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
- Synopsis:
- Ben and his men help a wagon train of settlers fight off hostile Shawnee Indians as they make their way to the end of the Wilderness Trail at Garsen's Gap.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011)
The Rival Company
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 15 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Frank Thorne
- Inks:
- Frank Thorne
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- historical
- Characters:
- Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
- Synopsis:
- Ben and Jim bring their beaver skins to the trading post only to find that the post operator is only buying from a man named Weber, who is using 20 Indians to force a monopoly on beaver trade in the area.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011).
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
1.
How to Tan a Deerhide
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2.
The Wilderness Trail
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
3.
The Rival Company
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
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