Four Color #687 - The Indian Fighter
(March 1956)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell A Movie Classic
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "THE INDIAN FIGHTER, No. 687."
Code number is I.F.O.S. #687-563.
Copyright 1956 by Bryna Productions, Inc. Based on the 1956 movie "The Indian Fighter."
"Movie Classic" on cover.

The Indian Fighter (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

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

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Hawks (photo of Kirk Douglas); Red Cloud (photo of Eduard Franz)
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The Indian Fighter (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

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

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Hawks (photo of Kirk Douglas); Red Cloud (photo of Eduard Franz)
Synopsis
Preview of the story.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Seven photos from the movie plus partial cast and credits list.

The Indian Fighter (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 34 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
Mike Roy
Inks
Mike Peppe
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Johnny Hawks; Onahti; Grey Wolf; Red Cloud; Wes Todd (villain); Chivington (villain)
Synopsis
Johnny Hawks guides a wagon train through Sioux territory. Two whites try to learn the location of the Indian gold and kill an Indian. Hawks has to fight Grey Wolf to take a suspect back to the fort. At the fort the suspects are let loose to leave with the wagon train, and are still determined to find the Indian gold. The pair trade whiskey for information and eventually kill two more Indians, starting a war in their lust for gold.

Indexer Notes

Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents. Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Indian Fighter
  2. 1. The Indian Fighter
  3. 2. The Indian Fighter
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  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Chris Boyko
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Keith Alan Morgan