Four Color #557 - Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men
(May 1954)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1954
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell Comic
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 557." Code number is BEN.B.O.S. #554-545 (Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1954 by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. Third of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Parker (painting)
Inks
John Parker (painting)
Colors
John Parker (painting)
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ben Bowie
Reprints
Keywords
bears; flintlock rifles; raccoon-skin caps
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How to Tan a Deerhide (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Frank Thorne (signed as FT)
Inks
Frank Thorne (signed as FT)
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction; western-frontier
Synopsis
Directions for tanning a deerhide.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text. Art id by Martin Olsen via the Error Tracker (January 2009).

The Wilderness Trail (Table of Contents: 2)

Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Frank Thorne
Inks
Frank Thorne
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
Synopsis
Ben and his men help a wagon train of settlers fight off hostile Shawnee Indians as they make their way to the end of the Wilderness Trail at Garsen's Gap.
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Indexer Notes

Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011).

The Rival Company (Table of Contents: 3)

Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Frank Thorne
Inks
Frank Thorne
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
Synopsis
Ben and Jim bring their beaver skins to the trading post only to find that the post operator is only buying from a man named Weber, who is using 20 Indians to force a monopoly on beaver trade in the area.

Indexer Notes

Story continues on inside cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011).

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men
  2. 1. How to Tan a Deerhide
  3. 2. The Wilderness Trail
    Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men
  4. 3. The Rival Company
    Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men
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  • Merlin Haas
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  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Paul Parker
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
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