Four Color #632 - Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans
(June-August 1955)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
On-sale Date
1955
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell Comic [sans serif]
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "Zane Grey's FIGHTING CARAVANS, No. 632." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #632-556. Copyright 1955 by Zane Grey, Inc. Last Zane Grey Four Color. Continues as Zane Grey's Stories of the West (Dell, 1955 series) with #27 (September-November 1955).

Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Hank Hartman (signed) (painting)
Inks
Hank Hartman (signed) (painting)
Colors
Hank Hartman (signed) (painting)
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Clint Belmet

Dell is proud to present one of its many awards.... (Table of Contents: 1)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Synopsis
Facsimile of Distinguished Achievement Award given Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. by Newsdealers Post Number 1169 American Legion on November 14, 1954.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Also includes typeset version of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." (not in usual form.)

Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 33.67 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois (adaptation); Zane Grey (novel)
Pencils
Al Micale
Inks
Al Micale
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Clint Belmet; May Bell; Lee Murdock
Synopsis
Clint Belmet's mother, father, and dog fall victim to separate Indian attacks while he is working as a freighter for wagon trains. He is separated from his sweetheart and spends many years searching for her.

Indexer Notes

Adapts Zane Grey's novel, "Fighting Caravans," which first appeared as a serial novel in Country Gentleman, beginning November 2, 1928.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 181, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta.

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Story continues on 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."

Don't Miss Zane Grey's Roundup (Table of Contents: 3)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Promo for Zane Grey's Stories of the West (Dell, 1955 series) #27 (September-November 1955). Line-drawn version of the painted cover is depicted. Promo is the bottom third of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans
  2. 1. Dell is proud to present one of its many awards....
  3. 2. Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans
  4. 3. Don't Miss Zane Grey's Roundup
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Dave Porta