Four Color
#599 - Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men
(November 1954)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1954
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
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.
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Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Ben Bowie
- Reprints
- Keywords
- lanterns; raccoon-skin caps
in 
Snowshoe Making
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- 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
- Genre
- historical
- 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
- Genre
- historical
- 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
- 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.
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Table of Contents
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0.
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Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
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...
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- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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