Four Color #709 - The Searchers
(June 1956)

Dell, 1942 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "THE SEARCHERS, No. 709." Code number is T.S.O.S. #709-566. Copyright 1956 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc.
Adapted from the 1956 Warner Bros. movie "The Searchers", which was adapted from the 1954 novel of the same name.

The Searchers (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photograph)
Inks
? (photograph)
Colors
? (photograph)
Letters
typeset
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ethan Edwards (photo of John Wayne)
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #709 - The Searchers
Edit cover
Cover gallery

The Searchers (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
?
Pencils
? (photographs)
Inks
? (photographs)
Letters
typeset
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ethan Edwards (photo of John Wayne); Martin Pawley (photo of Jeffrey Hunter); Brad Jorgensen (photo of Harey Carey Jr.); Debbie Edwards (photo of Natalie Wood)

Indexer Notes

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

The Searchers (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 34 pages (report information)

Script
Leo Dorfman; Frank Nugent (movie screenplay); Alan Le May (original novel)
Pencils
Mike Roy
Inks
Mike Peppe
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ethan Edwards; Aaron Edwards; Martha Edwards; Lucy Edwards; Ben Edwards; Deborah Edwards; Martin Pauley; Captain Reverend Samuel Johnson Clayton; Mr. Jorgensen; Mrs. Jorgensen; Brad Jorgensen; Laurie Jorgensen; Jerem Futterman; Wild Goose Flying in the Sky; Charlie McCorry; Mose Harper; Emilio Fernandez; Chief Scar
Synopsis
Three years after the Civil War, Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards' homecoming at his brother's Texas ranch is ruined by a Comanche raid. His brother and his wife and son are killed and his young nieces are kidnapped by the Comanches. Edwards and Marty, a young man his brother raised, go on a multi-year search to find them.

Indexer Notes

Story continues on the 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." This adaptation of the 1956 movie "The Searchers" is fairly faithful to the movie, though an early movie reference to Edwards possessing money from a railway robbery is omitted, as is the classic closing scene. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Searchers
  2. 1. The Searchers
  3. 2. The Searchers
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Bruno Andreacchi
  • Dwayne Best
  • Chris Boyko
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.