(June-August 1955)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
quarterly
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 "Zane Grey's FIGHTING CARAVANS, No. 632." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #632-556. Copyright 1955 by Zane Grey, Inc. Last Zane Grey Four Color. Continues as Zane Grey's Stories of the West (Dell, 1955 series) with #27 (September-November 1955).


Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Hank Hartman (painting) (signed)
Inks:
Hank Hartman (painting) (signed)
Colors:
Hank Hartman (painting) (signed)
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
western
Characters:
Clint Belmet

Dell is proud to present one of its many awards.... (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:
Facsimile of Distinguished Achievement Award given Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. by Newsdealers Post Number 1169 American Legion on November 14, 1954.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Also includes typeset version of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." (not in usual form.)


Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans (Table of Contents)

comic story / 33.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Zane Grey (original story); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
Pencils:
Albert Micale
Inks:
Albert Micale
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
western
Characters:
Clint Belmet; May Bell; Lee Murdock
Synopsis:
Clint Belmet's mother, father, and dog fall victim to separate Indian attacks while he is working as a freighter for wagon trains. He is separated from his sweetheart and spends many years searching for her.

Indexer Notes

Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1929 novel "Fighting Caravans" by Zane Grey. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)


Don't Miss Zane Grey's Roundup (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Promo for Zane Grey's Stories of the West (Dell, 1955 series) #27 (September-November 1955). Line-drawn version of the painted cover is depicted. Promo is the bottom third of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Dell is proud to present one of its many awards....
  2. 2. Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans
  3. 3. Don't Miss Zane Grey's Roundup
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