Four Color
#779 - Lee Hunter, Indian Fighter
(March 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "LEE HUNTER, INDIAN FIGHTER, No. 779." Code number is I.F.O.S. #779-573. Copyright 1957 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. First of two Lee Hunter Indian Fighter Four Colors.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Inks
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Colors
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lee Hunter; Reb Stuart
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
![Cover Thumbnail for Four Color (1942 series) #779 - Lee Hunter, Indian Fighter [Price variant]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/842/w100/842951.jpg?3075852866592718161)
[no title indexed]
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They traveled westward...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lee Hunter; Reb Stuart; Col. Frost
- Synopsis
- Introduction to series.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrations surrounding typeset text.
War Drums at the Peace Council
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lee Hunter (intro); Reb Stuart (intro); Col. Frost (intro)
- Synopsis
- Shortly after the Civil War, Lee Hunter, a former Union cavalry officer, and Reb Stuart, former Confederate cavalry horseman, take civilian positions at Fort Defiance, near Indian Territory. In a meeting of several tribes for a peace council, Hunter and Stuart must keep Sioux warrior Standing Bear from starting a war with the Snake tribe.
- Reprints
-
in Cheyenne Comic Album (World Distributors, 1959 ? series) #1 (1961 [copyright date])
-
Indexer Notes
First story of the series.
Ambushed
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter / comic story / 16.67 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Lee Hunter; Reb Stuart; Col. Frost
- Synopsis
- The Cavalry must move Red Bird's Cheyenne tribe to a new reservation; but are under orders to disarm the warriors during the trip. The rival Pawnees see this as an opportunity to ambush the travelers.
- Reprints
- in Cheyenne Comic Album (World Distributors, 1959 ? series) #1 (1961 [copyright date])
-
Indexer Notes
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."
[Fury!... The Stallion that Only an Orphan Boy Could Ride.]
Fury / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- Genre
- animal
- Characters
- Fury (horse)
Indexer Notes
Promo for Fury Four Color #781 (March 1957). Line-drawn version of the photo cover is depicted. The promo comes at the bottom of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter -
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["They traveled westward..."]
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter -
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War Drums at the Peace Council
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter -
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Ambushed
Lee Hunter Indian Fighter -
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[Fury!... The Stallion that Only an Orphan Boy Could Ride.]
Fury
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Thomas Johnson
- Tristan Lapoussière
- Keith Alan Morgan
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