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Issue: Indian Chief #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #12 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/11/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries 1953 Periodicals Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 7 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 1953, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Introducing a New Feature, White Eagle

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): White Eagle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The New Mesa

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Upright-In-War; Bear Man
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: On inside front and back covers in black and white.
The noses high up in frofiles, sketchy inking and the leggings are all identical to Maxon's story in #6. He worked for Dell on many Young Hawk stories in Lone Ranger Comics. Also made some early Tarzan stories.
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White Eagle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Indian Chief White Eagle
Character(s): Chief White Eagle (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Jon Small. The artwork here is, however, identical to the Gollub credited story "Blunt Arrow Boy" in Four Color #290, the first issue in this series. The realistic horses are similar. Small's uses much more black in his inking, also on faces, which are quite different. Gollub's a bit rounder with more visible nostrils, wavy mouth and often smiling, which can also be seen in his credited art in "North to Alaska" Four Color #1155, or in Gene Autry's Champion #5. Gollub's inking is much more sketchy than Small's signed stories in Chief #2, but with lesser black.
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The Journey of Standing Bear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Same notes for art credits as for the first story.
Script credit source (Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott) states: "The Journey of Standing Bear. 8p. For War Eagle. Sent May 1, 1950."
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The Outlander

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Little Tree; Kiutu Chief
Synopsis: After his whole tribe is killed or taken prisoner, Little Tree goes to live with another friendly tribe, and has to prove his worth.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Same notes for art credits as for the first story.

Script credit source (Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott) states: "The Outlander. 8p. For War Eagle, stock. Sent April 16, 1950."
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Your Gift From Indian Chief Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.
This Indian head with much black ink and many thin lines at cheeks and upper lip is by Small.

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