(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 "HIGH ADVENTURE, No. 949." Code number is HIGH.A.O.S. #494-5811. Copyright 1958 by Odyssey Productions, Inc. Based on the "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas" TV series.
[New Guinea / Tracking a Man-Eater]
Lowell Thomas High Adventure / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Characters:
- Lowell Thomas (photo)
- Synopsis:
- Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and brief typeset text.
New Guinea
Lowell Thomas High Adventure / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Bob Fujitani
- Inks:
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Characters:
- Lowell Thomas; Capt. Jack Pert; Ralph Ormsby; Tom Davidson; Peter O'Sullivan
- Synopsis:
- Lowell Thomas takes an expedition on a dangerous mission to see primitive tribes in New Guinea.
Indexer Notes
Script submitted on May 17, 1958. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Tracking a Man-Eater
Lowell Thomas High Adventure / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Bob Fujitani
- Inks:
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; jungle
- Characters:
- Lowell Thomas; Raj Kumar; John Crawford; James Hanney; Captain Girsham; Boris Lessenvitch
- Synopsis:
- Lowell Thomas takes his camera crew to India to participate in the hunt for a man-eating tiger.
Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Script submitted on May 14, 1958, under the title "Wild Elephants and a Man Eater." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
New Guinea Tools and Weapons
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Characters:
- Lowell Thomas (photo)
- Synopsis:
- The tools and weapons of New Guinea tribesmen
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
The Man Eater
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- Bob Fujitani
- Inks:
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Characters:
- Lowell Thomas (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- How a tiger becomes a man-eater.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Table of Contents
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1.
[New Guinea / Tracking a Man-Eater]
Lowell Thomas High Adventure -
2.
New Guinea
Lowell Thomas High Adventure -
3.
Tracking a Man-Eater
Lowell Thomas High Adventure -
4.
New Guinea Tools and Weapons
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5.
The Man Eater
- 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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