Indian Chief
#11
(July-September 1953)
Dell,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-05-12
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Editing
- Matt Murphy (editor); George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Issue Notes
On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries 1953 Periodicals Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 7 Pt 2.
Editor inferred from page 281, Michael Barrier's "Funnybooks" (UC Press, Oakland, 2015): "[Lebeck] was still working for Western in March 1951 ... but he left sometime soon after that. ... His successor, George Brenner, ... held the job only briefly before his death in March 1952. He was succeeded by Matthew H. Murphy."
Designed, produced, and copyright 1953, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
Editor inferred from page 281, Michael Barrier's "Funnybooks" (UC Press, Oakland, 2015): "[Lebeck] was still working for Western in March 1951 ... but he left sometime soon after that. ... His successor, George Brenner, ... held the job only briefly before his death in March 1952. He was succeeded by Matthew H. Murphy."
Designed, produced, and copyright 1953, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
[no title indexed]
Indian Chief / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- I.C. #11-536
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
in 
in 
The Trail of the Wolverine
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- George Haas
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Trapper Wandering Spirit, an Abenaki brave, must compete for his goods with a wolverine.
Indexer Notes
This story is printed on the inside front and back covers.
Son of the Sea Chief
Indian Chief / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Chief Bear Tooth; Diving Gull (of the Kwakiutl tribe)
- Synopsis
- The Kwakiutl seek revenge on the "Siwash".
Indexer Notes
The "Siwash" mentioned in this story are not a real tribe.
Some faces with pin point eyes and "hovering" movement, especially the man running with arms away from the body on page 14, are all signs of Micale. He had many stories with Roy Rogers and Wild Bill Elliott for Dell.
A Warrior's Choice
Indian Chief / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Wild Horse; Painted Bowl; Long Knife (all Apache)
- Synopsis
- When Wild Horse is injured falling from his horse, he is nursed back to health by the peaceful basket weavers of the mesa. But his Apache brothers want him to betray the basket weavers.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Indian Chief -
1.
The Trail of the Wolverine
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2.
Son of the Sea Chief
Indian Chief -
3.
A Warrior's Choice
Indian Chief -
4.
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