Four Color
#816 - Brave Eagle
(July 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1957
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BRAVE EAGLE, No. 816." Code number is B.E.O.S. #816-577. Copyright 1957 by Roy Rogers--Frontiers, Inc. Based on the 1955-56 CBS TV series "Brave Eagle." Third of five Brave Eagle Four Color issues.
Apology for Warpaint
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Lt. John C. Fremont
- Synopsis
- Retelling of an incident in 1843 in which Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors attacked a group of troops, then abruptly called off the attack when they realized that the troops weren't tribal enemies.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Craftint shading. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Search for the Sun
Brave Eagle / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Brave Eagle; Smokey; Keena; Morning Star, White Cloud (horse)
- Synopsis
- Keena, Brave Eagle's adopted son, overhears him talking to a brave whose son had joined a group of renegades to steal gold in exchange for rifles. Brave Eagle has left the brave's son at the fort to pay for his crimes. Keena thinks Brave Eagle should not have left the youth and decides to return to the Lotas, his original tribe. There Keena finds the white gun traders have set up camp to await the return of the council to determine if the tribe will trade its gold for guns.
- Reprints
-
in Wild West Comic Annual (World Distributors, 1951 series) #[1958] (1957) -
in Aigle Noir (Sage - Sagédition, 1960 series) #1 (décembre 1960)
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The Iron Trail
Brave Eagle / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Brave Eagle; Smokey; Keena; White Cloud (horse)
- Synopsis
- The crew boss of workers laying railroad tracks through Cheyenne territory hatches a scheme to steal the payroll and make it look like it was the work of the Cheyenne.
Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Choosing of the Chief
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Method of choosing a new chief of the Cheyenne Indians.
- Reprints
-
in Roy Rogers (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1954 series) #1/1958 ([januar] 1958)
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Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white; craftint shading. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Search for the Sun
Brave Eagle -
1.
Apology for Warpaint
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2.
Search for the Sun
Brave Eagle -
3.
The Iron Trail
Brave Eagle -
4.
Choosing of the Chief
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5.
Pride of the Bow
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Alan Hutchinson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
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