Four Color
#239 - Adventure Bound
(August 1949)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1949
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Helen Meyer (credited)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "ADVENTURE BOUND, No. 239." Code number is A.B.O.S. #239-498. Copyright 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
[Piracy]
text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Ely ?
- Inks
- Bill Ely ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; historical
- Synopsis
- Facts about pirates.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
Adventure Bound
comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Paul Clark; Nat Clark; Maria Rosaria
- Synopsis
- Boston, 1723. Paul Clark runs away to sea aboard The Boston Belle. His 8-year old brother, Nat, has followed, and stows away. Maria is a passenger who travels to join her father, the governor of Trinidad Island. She befriends Nat and Paul. Paul is wounded defending her from the Pirate captain, Redbeard, who loots the ship, and takes them hostage. Paul walks the plank, but Maria and Nat throw him a rope, and pull him back aboard through their cabin window. Nat dances for Redbeard, and, as reward, Paul is allowed to join the crew.
Indexer Notes
Writing credit and synopsis supplied by David Porta (November 2006). This comic is presented with no word balloons. The story is told with borderless panels, and captions, including dialogue in quotation marks, like the Prince Valiant comic strip.
[Captain John Avery]
text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Ely ?
- Inks
- Bill Ely ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Capt. John Avery [Long Ben; Archpirate]
- Synopsis
- Facts about Captain John Avery, a pirate in the 17th Century.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Adventure Bound
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1.
[Piracy]
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2.
Adventure Bound
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3.
[Captain John Avery]
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4.
[Blackbeard]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Steven Rowe
- Jim Van Dore
- Gregg Whitmore
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