Indian Chief
#12
(October-December 1953)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-08-11
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Comic
- Editing
- Matt Murphy (editor); George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Issue Notes
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.
Introducing a New Feature, White Eagle
White Eagle / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Genre
- western-frontier
The New Mesa
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Upright-In-War; Bear Man
Indexer Notes
On inside front and back covers in black and white.
The noses high up in frofiles, sketchy inking and the leggings are all identical to Maxon's story in #6. He worked for Dell on many Young Hawk stories in Lone Ranger Comics. Also made some early Tarzan stories.
White Eagle
Indian Chief White Eagle / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Chief White Eagle (first appearance)
Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Jon Small. The artwork here is, however, identical to the Gollub credited story "Blunt Arrow Boy" in Four Color #290, the first issue in this series. The realistic horses are similar. Small's uses much more black in his inking, also on faces, which are quite different. Gollub's a bit rounder with more visible nostrils, wavy mouth and often smiling, which can also be seen in his credited art in "North to Alaska" Four Color #1155, or in Gene Autry's Champion #5. Gollub's inking is much more sketchy than Small's signed stories in Chief #2, but with lesser black.
The Journey of Standing Bear
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Same notes for art credits as for the first story.
Script credit source (Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott) states: "The Journey of Standing Bear. 8p. For War Eagle. Sent May 1, 1950." ~Dave Porta
The Outlander
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Little Tree; Kiutu Chief
- Synopsis
- After his whole tribe is killed or taken prisoner, Little Tree goes to live with another friendly tribe, and has to prove his worth.
Indexer Notes
Same notes for art credits as for the first story.
Script credit source (Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott) states: "The Outlander. 8p. For War Eagle, stock. Sent April 16, 1950." ~Dave Porta
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Introducing a New Feature, White Eagle
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The New Mesa
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White Eagle
Indian Chief White Eagle -
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The Journey of Standing Bear
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The Outlander
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Your Gift From Indian Chief Comics
Indian Chief
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- Steinar Ådland
- Gregory Fischer
- Jochen G.
- Merlin Haas
- Dave Porta
- Richard Richmond
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