Four Color #1001 - High Adventure
(August-October 1959)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1959
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "HIGH ADVENTURE, No. 1001." Code number is High.A. O/S #1001-598. Copyright 1959 by Odyssey Productions, Inc. Second of two High Adventure Four Colors. Based on a series of TV Specials by Lowell Thomas, newsman, adventurer, and explorer.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Lowell Thomas High Adventure / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photos)
Inks
? (photos)
Colors
? (photos)
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Africa: pygmies and hippo hunting!
Genre
non-fiction; jungle
Characters
Lowell Thomas (photo)

The Australian "Never-Never" Land (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
? (photos)
Inks
? (photos)
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction
Characters
Lowell Thomas (photo)
Synopsis
Brief facts and photos of Australian Aborigines.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Script submitted on March 11, 1959. 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).

Mystery in Australia (Table of Contents: 2)

Lowell Thomas High Adventure / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction
Characters
Lowell Thomas; Harold Bell Lasseter (cameo)
Synopsis
Lowell Thomas goes to the Australian Outback to solve the mystery of Harold Bell Lasseter, who set off a gold rush in the 1920s, then vanished.

Indexer Notes

Script submitted on December 31, 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).

Mountains of the Moon (Table of Contents: 3)

Lowell Thomas High Adventure / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction; jungle
Characters
Lowell Thomas; Colin Turnbull; Chris Pollet; Paul LeLoup; Eric Von Hippel
Synopsis
Lowell Thomas explores the region around the Mountains of the Moon in equatorial Africa. He meets four white men: a crocodile hunter, a snake scientist, a big game hunter, and an anthropologist studying pygmies.

Indexer Notes

Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on January 7, 1959. 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).

The Mountains of the Moon (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photos)
Inks
? (photos)
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; jungle
Characters
Lowell Thomas (photo)
Synopsis
Brief facts and photos of the Mountains of the Moon area of Africa.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on March 11, 1959. 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).

Australian Aboriginal Weapons (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction
Synopsis
Facts about the Aborigines' boomerang and womera.

Indexer Notes

Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Submitted on January 28, 1959, under the title "The Boomerang and the Womera". 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).

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Africa: pygmies and hippo hunting!"]
    Lowell Thomas High Adventure
  2. 1. The Australian "Never-Never" Land
  3. 2. Mystery in Australia
    Lowell Thomas High Adventure
  4. 3. Mountains of the Moon
    Lowell Thomas High Adventure
  5. 4. The Mountains of the Moon
  6. 5. Australian Aboriginal Weapons
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Chris Boyko
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Keith Alan Morgan