(November 1954)
- 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. 599." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #599-5411. Copyright 1954 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company. Fourth of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.
Snowshoe Making
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- Directions on making frontier-style snowshoes.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text.
Surrounded
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- William Overgard
- Inks:
- William Overgard
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice
- Synopsis:
- Ben and Jim visit Jed Turner's trading post, which is located on an island in a lake. They find the post deserted and upon investigation find Jed's wife and child in a canoe. Jed has been captured by hostile Huron Indians. Later Ben and Jim narrowly escape capture by an Algonquian war party. Late in the night, Ben and Jim rescue Ned and in the morning the Hurons and Algonquians engage in a battle.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men and The Earth Mounds
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 16.67 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- William Overgard
- Inks:
- William Overgard
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
- Synopsis:
- Ben and his men escort two government surveyors into the uncharted Northwest Territory to reach the 82nd Meridian.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Three Brand New Dell Comics...
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Characters:
- Turok (cameo); Captain Davy Jones (cameo); Sir Lancelot (cameo)
Indexer Notes
On bottom of last interior page in middle of sequence 3 story. Promo for Dell adventure comics. Line drawings of the painted covers to Turok Four Color #596; Captain Davy Jones Four Color #598, and Sir Lancelot Four Color #606 are depicted in part.
Table of Contents
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1.
Snowshoe Making
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2.
Surrounded
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
3.
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men and The Earth Mounds
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
4.
Three Brand New Dell Comics...
- Katie
- Merlin Haas
- 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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