The Chief
#2
([April-June] 1951)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1951-01-16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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A Dell Comic
- Editing
- Oskar Lebeck (editor); George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-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, 1951, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
On sale date 1951-01-16 per page 325 of 674 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1951 Pamphlets.
Indian Sign Language
activity / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- How to say 6 different words in Indian Sign Language (including season, woman and white man).
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover and inside back cover. Includes indicia.
The Captive of the Mountain Makers
The Chief / comic story / 14 pages
- Job Number
- The Chief #2-512
- Genre
- historical; western-frontier
- Characters
- Young Otter; Prairie Dove
- Synopsis
- Young Otter saves Prairie Dove from being sacrificed to the sun god upon the altar atop the pyramid by the sun priests of the tribe who live in the walled city.
- Keywords
- human sacrifice; pagan priests; sun god
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 Captive of the Mountain Makers (synopsis). 14p. For War Eagle. Sent March 5, 1950. NOTE: Parenthetical 'synop' is lined out in red." ~Dave Porta
The Exile
Indian Chief / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- historical; western-frontier
- Characters
- Fleet Hawk
- Synopsis
- Fleet Hawk fails the manhood initiation of the Wolf Clan. He is exiled for a season. A wolf pack attacks him in his exile. He kills the huge wolf leader by knife in mortal combat, skins it, wears its pelt as a wolf's head hood, undertakes many anonymous heroics for his clan. He finally unmasks himself. Denouement: "We who sent you out in scorn, admired you unknowingly and called you the Wolf God! We who sent you forth in shame welcome back The Exile!"
- Reprints
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in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #31 (August 1973)
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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 ‘Big Wolf' (synopsis). 16p. For War Eagle. Sent February 26, 1950." Someone changed the title from "The 'Big Wolf'" to "The Exile." ~Dave Porta
This is the same artist as on Tonto and Sergeant Preston.
Notice the accuracy of the posed figures and details of objects. That is because Giolitti took pictures of himself and his friends dressed like the characters of the strip, and used it as a guideline for the final drawing. He had photographs, books, magazines and objects used for backgrounds and artifacts. He also had models of real weapons.
Informations from Angelo Toredo
Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010
Squaw Man
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois (sourced) (Entry states: "White Wolf Sets a Trap. 10p. For War Eagle, stock. Sent March 26, 1950.")
- Pencils
- Jon Small (signed)
- Inks
- Jon Small (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A Pawnee brave and a coward, Stone Hawk, you turned and ran when the Cheyennes attacked. I must punish you.
- Genre
- historical; western-frontier
- Characters
- Pawnee chief; Pawnee brave 1 (dialogue); Pawnee brave 2 (dialogue); Pawnee brave 3 (dialogue); other Pawnee braves (pictured); Stone Hawk (a Pawnee); Gentle Deer (his wife); Demon Bear (a big bear)
- Synopsis
- Having been named coward by the tribe, Stone Hawk is told he may remain among them as a squaw, doing women's work, or go it alone. He chooses the latter, declaring he will prove his courage by killing the demon bear. His wife chooses to accompany him. By his skills and with her help they persevere against a most persistent bear, and return to the tribe victorious.
Indexer Notes
This is the second of Du Bois's four-episode series about the marriage of White Wolf the Pawnee and Moon Maiden of the Onondaga.
Written as a ten page story "White Wolf Sets a Trap," it had been editorially altered. It is now eleven pages, and, while the protagonist remains Pawnee, his name has been changed to Stone Hawk. The tribe are now also Pawnee instead of Onondaga, and Moon Maiden's name has been changed to Gentle Deer.
Du Bois identifiers mark it clearly as his, and the contents of the story tally with both the title as originally written, and the ongoing story of the other three episodes.
Du Bois writer i.d. by David Porta, October 2021.
White Wolf and the Pelt Robber
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- historical; western-frontier
- Characters
- White Wolf; Moon Maiden
- Synopsis
- Marriage is a partnership. Onondaga bride Moon Maiden and her Pawnee husband White Wolf leave for new hunting grounds; she teaches him the hunting and trapping secrets. He is hurt in a fight with a wolverine. Her skill and love bring him back from death. She exults that the Great Spirit is filling their snares with game. White Wolf redounds the praise to her, declaring the Great Spirit has given her strong "medicine." She remarks that they shall be rich when they return to her father's wickiup, but even if they were poor, she should still feel rich with her husband! He feels likewise.
- Keywords
- family; God; mixed marriage
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: "White Wolf and The Pelt Robber. 8p For War Eagle, stock. Sent April 2, 1950." ~Dave Porta
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The Chief -
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Indian Sign Language
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The Captive of the Mountain Makers
The Chief -
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The Exile
Indian Chief -
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Squaw Man
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White Wolf and the Pelt Robber
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