Four Color #946 - The Big Country
(August 1958)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1958
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Movie Adaptation (United Artists).

The Big Country (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
Cover: color action still from film; photo includes actor Gregory Peck.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Big Country / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover: intro to story, using five small b&w stills from film. Peck is featured in stills.

The Big Country (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 32 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Bob Correa
Inks
Bob Correa
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
Families feuding over water rights, pits against one another, two big men--one, a rough ranch foreman, the other an equally tough "dude" who is a former sea captain.

Indexer Notes

Comments: very realistic art, in Dell/Western's finest movie adaptation tradition. Correa contributed to numerous of these type issues (films, tv series), his clean, realistic/romantic style especially suited for same. Last story page contains Dell Comics "A Pledge to Parents."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Tenderfoot Jokes / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Correa
Inks
Bob Correa
Letters
?
Genre
humor

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover: fact-filler--One page panel story, un-colored.

The King Ranch (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Keywords
cattle; King Ranch; Texas; windmills

Indexer Notes

On the back cover. Some copies may have an advertisement in place of this sequence.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Big Country
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    The Big Country
  3. 2. The Big Country
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Tenderfoot Jokes
  5. 4. The King Ranch
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