Four Color
#513 - Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men
(November 1953)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
- Dell Comic
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Paper Stock
- Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- Was Ongoing Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 513." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #513-5311. Copyright 1953 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company. Second of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.
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Mountain Men
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- William Overgard
- Inks
- William Overgard
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- historical
- Synopsis
- Short overview of what is meant by "mountain men."
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover, black and white. Three illustrations with typeset text. Art credit based on comparison of brush strokes of trees in interior and also positioning of figures. Gene Reed 8/22/2016
The Hostiles
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- William Overgard [as WO]
- Inks
- William Overgard
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Nakah, Zeke Moss
- Synopsis
- Ben and his friends help fend off Huron Indian raiders at a rickety fort nicknamed "Fort Indefensible."
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Martin Olsen via the error tracker (January 2009). Ink credit based on comparisons of Overgard's art for Prize, Lev Gleason and Ziff-Davis, Particularly The Hawk. Gene Reed 8/22/2016.
A Trap for the Beaver Trappers
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- William Overgard [as WO]
- Inks
- William Overgard
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Ben Bowie; Zeke Moss; Nakah; Jim Prentice
- Synopsis
- Ben and his men are trapping beaver, but their traps are being robbed by a renegade white man and his Algonquian Indian helpers.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Art identification by Martin Olsen via the error tracker (January 2009). Ink credit based on comparisons of Overgard's art for Prize, Lev Gleason and Ziff-Davis, Particularly The Hawk. Gene Reed 8/22/2016.
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Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
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Mountain Men
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The Hostiles
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men -
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A Trap for the Beaver Trappers
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
- Peter Croome
- Gene Reed
- Michael DeLisa
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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