(November 1958)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BROKEN ARROW, No. 947." Code number is B.ARROW.O.S. #947-5811. Copyright 1958 by Elliot Arnold. Based on the "Broken Arrow" TV series.
[Vengeance Trail]
Broken Arrow / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Otto Binder
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Tom Jeffords (as played by John Lupton, photo); Cochise (as played by Michael Ansara, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Preview of the second story in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos from the TV series with brief typeset text. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Desert Ordeal
Broken Arrow / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Otto Binder
- Pencils:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Inks:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Tom Jeffords; Cochise
- Synopsis:
- Jeffords and Cochise capture a killer in the desert. They must return him to Tucson or an Apache will hang for murder. However Cochise has been shot and they have lost their horses.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Vengeance Trail
Broken Arrow / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Otto Binder
- Pencils:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Inks:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Tom Jeffords; Cochise
- Synopsis:
- Lack of communication causes an Army patrol to attack a band of Apaches who have been given permission to camp by the fort. The women and children of the Apache band are captured, but the Chief and his warriors begin a series of raids on the white men. Jeffords and Cochise have to try to stop the bloodshed.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Trackdown
Broken Arrow / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Otto Binder
- Pencils:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Inks:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Tom Jeffords; Cochise; Geronimo
- Synopsis:
- An Apache messenger thinks he killed a white man and Cochise and Jeffords must track him down, all the while dodging the threat of Geronimo's raiders.
Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Stronghold
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Otto Binder
- Pencils:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Inks:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
- Synopsis:
- The Chiricahua strongholds, mountain passages that let the Apaches keep enemies at bay with only a few men.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Indian Agent
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Otto Binder
- Pencils:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Inks:
- Howard Purcell ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; western
- Synopsis:
- Duties of Indian agents in the old West.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Panels with typset text underneath.
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Table of Contents
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1.
[Vengeance Trail]
Broken Arrow -
2.
Desert Ordeal
Broken Arrow -
3.
Vengeance Trail
Broken Arrow -
4.
Trackdown
Broken Arrow -
5.
The Stronghold
-
6.
Indian Agent
- 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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