Four Color
#791 - The 77th Bengal Lancers
(April 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE 77th BENGAL LANCERS, No. 791." Code number is B.LANCERS O.S. #791-574. Copyright 1957 by Screen Gems, Inc. Based on the 1956-57 "Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers" TV series.
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[no title indexed]
The 77th Bengal Lancers / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A threatening stillness grips the air.
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Lt. Michael Rhodes (photo of Philip Carey); Lt. William Storm (photo of Warren Stevens)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos from the TV series with typeset text.
The Traitor
The 77th Bengal Lancers / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lt. Michael Rhodes; Lt. William Storm; Yakoob Ali (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Lancers go to Landibari, in mountainous northwest India, to receive a present of gold for Queen Victoria. When they arrive they find that the town has been sacked and the gold stolen by the bandits of Yakoob Ali.
- Reprints
The Pawn
The 77th Bengal Lancers / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lt. Michael Rhodes; Lt. William Storm; Col. Standish
- Synopsis
- The Lancers go to Ranigunj, under the pretense of playing a polo match, in order to take the young nephew of an ailing maharajah, who is in line to become ruler but has a deadly enemy in his adult cousin who wants to be the choice for the throne.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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The 77th Bengal Lancers
The 77th Bengal Lancers -
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["A threatening stillness grips the air."]
The 77th Bengal Lancers -
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The Traitor
The 77th Bengal Lancers -
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The Pawn
The 77th Bengal Lancers -
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Hockey on Horseback
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5.
The Reign of the Bengal Lancers
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- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
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- Thomas Johnson
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