(September-November 1954)

Dell, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Quarterly
On-sale Date
1954-08-12
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell Comic
Editing
Matt Murphy (editor); George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)

Issue Notes

On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries 1954 Periodicals Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 8 Pt 2.

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 1954, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Indian Chief / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?

Job Number
I.C. #16-549
Genre
western-frontier

Winter Hunt (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Synopsis
Trapping has been poor for Wandering Spirit of the Abenaki tribe. His people need meat badly. If he can just capture this moose.

Indexer Notes

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

Indian Chief White Eagle and the Treacherous Mission (Table of Contents: 2)

White Eagle / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Daly
Inks
John Daly
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Chief White Eagle (Sioux); Chief Gray Wolf (Winnebago)
Synopsis
Winnebagoes attack the Sioux, but they are supposed to be at peace. Gray Wolf asks for a peace powwow, but has evil plans.

Indexer Notes

John Daly is credited on Indian Chief by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. This artwork compares best with his signed story "Poison Allard's Last Draw" in Western Fighter #2, with the thin cheekline in profile, eyes that really don't look at anything. Also similar to DC's early Aquaman stories on the faces. He changed much from his early drawing in True Comics, but his faces can be recognised, like the Indian on page 34 in True Comics #1.

Red Wing, Son of the Chief and the Raid (Table of Contents: 3)

Red Wing / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Daly
Inks
John Daly
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Chief Bright Feather; Red Wing; White Faun; Swift Deer (Navaho)
Synopsis
Red Wing's friends are captured by the Hopi.

Indexer Notes

Notes as for first story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Indian Chief
  2. 1. Winter Hunt
  3. 2. Indian Chief White Eagle and the Treacherous Mission
    White Eagle
  4. 3. Red Wing, Son of the Chief and the Raid
    Red Wing
  5. 4. ["Your gift from Indian Chief comics..."]
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