Indian Chief
#13
(January-March 1954)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-11-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Comic
- Editing
- Matt Murphy (editor); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president); George Delacorte (president)
Issue Notes
Editor inferred from page 281, Michael Barrier's "Funnybooks" (UC Press, Oakland, 2015): "[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."
Designed, produced, and copyright 1953, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
[no title indexed]
Indian Chief / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- I.C. #13-5312
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
in 
The Deadfall
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Caught out checking his traps, Little Coyote of the Ojibway tribe must defeat a Huron warrior who threatens his people.
Indexer Notes
This story is printed on the inside front and back covers.
The rather unmuscular figure under the tree, sketchy hands and inking makes these drawings the work of Maxon. He drew many of the "Young Hawk" stories in Lone Ranger, and some early Tarzan. Also one story in Indian Chief #6.
White Eagle and the Hostage
White Eagle / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Chief White Eagle; Fleet Horse (both Sioux); Chief Grey Owl (Cheyenne)
- Synopsis
- Chief White Eagle and Chief Grey Owl meet to talk peace, but some prefer war and Grey Owl is kidnapped.
- Reprints
-
in Aventura (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #68 (15 de septiembre de 1957)
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Indexer Notes
Pencils credits from French magazine Back-Up #14, provided to the GCD by Stephane Petit (25 April 2009).
Additional art infos come from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.
The Copper Knife
Indian Chief / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Chief Red Hand; Yellow Horn; Black Buck (Cheyenne); Chief Bear Tooth; Diving Gull (Kwakiutl)
- Synopsis
- Chief Red Hand travels to the Great Salt Water to see if monsters really dwell there. He rescues Diving Gull from attackers and is befriended by the Kwakiutl tribe.
- Reprints
- in Aventura (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #68 (15 de septiembre de 1957)
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Indexer Notes
Script credit source (Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott) states: "The Copper Knife (synopsis). 16p. For War Eagle. Sent March 5, 1950." ~Dave Porta
The artwork here is identical to Jon Small's signed stories in this series, Four Color #290, The Chief #2, and Indian Chief #3. The best clue is the heavy inking, and the close up faces, with many thin inklines along the cheekbones and upper lip. Also the scenery, and movement of the figures are similar.
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[no title indexed]
Indian Chief -
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The Deadfall
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White Eagle and the Hostage
White Eagle -
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The Copper Knife
Indian Chief -
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