Four Color
#820 - The Oklahoman
(June 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1957
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell A Movie Classic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE OKLAHOMAN, No. 820."
Code number is T.O.O.S. #820-576.
Copyright 1957 by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.
"Movie Classic" on cover.
This issue has variants:
Code number is T.O.O.S. #820-576.
Copyright 1957 by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.
"Movie Classic" on cover.
This issue has variants:
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The Oklahoman
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Dr. John Brighton (photo of Joel McCrea); Cass Dobie (photo of Brad Dexter); Charlie Smith (photo of Michale Pate)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Seven photos from the movie plus partial cast list.
The Oklahoman
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation); Daniel B. Ullman (movie writer)
- Pencils
- Bob Jenney
- Inks
- Bob Jenney
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Dr. John Brighton; Cass Dobie; Jim Hawk; Maria Smith; Charlie Smith; Mel Dobie
- Synopsis
- Dr. John Brighton settles in Cherokee Wells after his wife dies giving birth to his daughter. Five years later, big cattleman Cass Dobie is trying to run off the smaller ranchers and makes an enemy of the Doctor. Cass Dobie suspects there is oil on Indian Charlie Smith's property. He sends his brother Mel to take a sample for analysis, but Smith sees him and Mel tries to shoot him. Smith kills him with a knife and Cass Dobie vows revenge. Dr. Brighton has to keep Smith safe from Cass until the inquest.
- Reprints
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in The Oklahoman (Magazine Management, 1958 ? series) (October 1958) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
Based on the 1957 movie "The Oklahoman." Script credit from "Who's Who in American Comic Books 1928-1999" website. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). "R. Jenney" appears on a store sign in panel two of page two of the story.
The First Oil Well
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Jenney
- Inks
- Bob Jenney
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Edwin Drake
- Synopsis
- The drilling of the first oil well by Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania in 1859.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Land Rush
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Jenney
- Inks
- Bob Jenney
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A description of the land rush in Oklahoma in 1889.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Table of Contents
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The Oklahoman
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The Oklahoman
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2.
The Oklahoman
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The First Oil Well
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4.
The Land Rush
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- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Van Dore
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