(October-December 1952)

Dell, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Quarterly
On-sale Date
1952-08-12
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
A Dell Comic
Editing
George Brenner (sourced) (Inferred from: "[Lebeck] was still working for Western in March 1951 ... but he left sometime soon after that. ... His successor, George Brenner, ... held the job only briefly before his death in March 1952. He was succeeded by Matthew H. Murphy."); George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)

Issue Notes

Designed, produced, and copyright 1952, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Indian Chief / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks
Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors
Sam Savitt (painting)

Job Number
I.C. #8-5210
Genre
western-frontier
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4, August 2002.

Split Pine (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
George Haas
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Laughing Fox; Small One
Synopsis
After his canoe is destroyed by an unseen rock, Laughing Fox and his woman must find material to build a new one.

Indexer Notes

This story is printed on the inside front and back cover.

Bear Medicine (Table of Contents: 2)

Indian Chief / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Chief Spotted Fox; Crooked Knife; Willow Fern (all Sioux)
Synopsis
Crippled warrior Crooked Knife seeks ways to be a warrior again so he might wed Willow Fern. After a cliff fall pushes his broken leg bone back into place, he travels to the Blackfoot camp to rescue his fellow warriors.

A Chief is Made (Table of Contents: 3)

Indian Chief / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Chief Black Otter; Strong Pine; Seal Tooth; Raven Eye (all of the Nootka tribe of fishermen); Chief Whale Fin; Gray Porpoise (Kwakiutl)
Synopsis
Strong Pine loves Raven Eye, but a Chief's daughter may only marry a Chief's son, such as Gray Porpoise, the son of Chief Whale Fin.

[Skunk Family] (Table of Contents: 4)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction
Synopsis
Photograph of a skunk family with commentary.

Indexer Notes

Photograph courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Indian Chief
  2. 1. Split Pine
  3. 2. Bear Medicine
    Indian Chief
  4. 3. A Chief is Made
    Indian Chief
  5. 4. [Skunk Family]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Josh Blair
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Dave Porta
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Terry Vraspir