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Little Beaver Takes a Spill

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Fred Harman (signed)

Inker(s): Fred Harman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Red Ryder

Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Thunder (Red's horse); Papoose (Little Beaver's pinto)

Synopsis: Papoose stumbles mid-gallop, and Little Beaver goes flying.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Little Beaver's Mystery Arrow

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois [as Fred Harman]

Penciller(s): Fred Harman (signed)

Inker(s): Fred Harman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, crime, drama, historical, mystery, western

Feature(s): Little Beaver

Character(s): Little Beaver (a Navaho youngster); Red Ryder; Pock-mark Pete

First Line: "Hoss tracks!" Little Beaver exclaimed softly, pointing to the mud at the edge of a tiny spring.

Synopsis: Little Beaver and Red are on the path of an outlaw.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover in red and black. Concludes on inside back cover. Title and writer credit per page 87, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled by Randall W. Scott (MSU Libraries, 1985).

Reservation Starvation

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama, humorous, western

Feature(s): Red Ryder

Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Express Agent; Doctor; Counterfeiter; Sheriff; Birdfeather (Indian); steer; Dr. Tate (Ethnologist); Alice Tate (his daughter); starving Indians; Bearclaw (Medicine Man)

First Line: Accordin' to this receipt you signed, I gave you the wrong express package, Ryder!

Synopsis: The counterfeiters confess. Bearclaw forbids the starving tribe receiving charity beef from Red. Dr. Tate seeks native picture writing. His daughter is huffy, a brat who despises rustic life. Bearclaw attempts to murder Little Beaver who is salting a site with native picture writing.

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Reprint Notes: From Red Ryder newspaper comic strip (N. E. A. Service, Inc.), 1944.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: R.R.C. 26 - 457

Bearding Boss Crane

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stephen Slesinger ?

Penciller(s): Jim Gary

Inker(s): Jim Gary

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, western

Feature(s): Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted

Character(s): Dave King (Sergeant of the Royal Mounted); Kid (King's companion); Gillis (storekeeper); ore train engineer; Indian; Boss Crane (mine boss); Crane henchman

First Line: King and Kid stop at the Indian village of Chief White Eagle and find that all the braves have been enslaved by a white man named Crane, who owns a mine.

Synopsis: King and Kid arrest Crane's ore train engineer for murdering an escaped Indian slave laborer, and Crane for slaving. Crane slugs King, and races the train back to bury the Indians in the mine. King sends Kid to wire for help. At the mine, King commandeers the train to charge Crane, but is switched to a submerged line. He defuses the dynamite. Now he must ensure Crane can't reset the charge as he leads the Indians out of the mine.

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Reprint Notes: From Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted newspaper comic strip King Features Syndicate, Inc.), 1943.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Failed Raid

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Crane; Leslie Turner

Penciller(s): Roy Crane; Leslie Turner

Inker(s): Roy Crane; Leslie Turner

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, historical, military, war

Feature(s): Captain Easy

Character(s): Captain Easy; Sgt. Max Hitler; Heintz; German soldier; Scotty (tail gunner); Major Chappell, M.D.; patient

First Line: Sir, unless that armored car stops snooping around we'll miss the glider.

Synopsis: Easy and Max are wounded making it back to the glider. The other glider is lost returning to England. The raid has failed because a soldier brought American cigarettes with him. The U.S. Medical Corps mends Easy.

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Reprint Notes: From Captain Easy newspaper comic strip (N. E. A. Service, Inc.), 1943.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

All's Fair in Love and War

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ernest Lynn [as Henry Lee]

Penciller(s): Henry Schlensker [as Henry Lee]

Inker(s): Henry Schlensker [as Henry Lee]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, military, romantic

Feature(s): Biff Baker

Character(s): Biff Baker; Stu Warren; Fizz Hamilton; Barbara Hamilton

First Line: Cadet Hamilton!

Synopsis: At Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas: Stu is steamed that Fizz doesn't introduce his female guest. He's embarrassed when Fizz does finally introduce her; it's Fizz's sister, Barbara. Fizz asks Stu to show her around San Antonio. That night, at the dance, Stu is called away from Barb for a telephone call. Biff introduces himself to Barb, explaining that he's pranked Stu with a phony call.

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Reprint Notes: From Biff Baker newspaper comic strip (N. E. A. Service, Inc.), 1942.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Four Dates for Lard

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Fred Fox (as Blosser)

Penciller(s): Henry Formhals [as Blosser] (on dailies, and assistant on Sunday strip); Merrill Blosser [as Blosser] (on Sunday strip)

Inker(s): Henry Formhals [as Blosser] (on dailies, and assistant on Sunday strip); Merrill Blosser [as Blosser] (on Sunday strip)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Freckles and his Friends

Character(s): Freckles McGoosey; Lard Smith; Hilda; barber; manicurist; Hector

First Line: I could see you tonight, tomorrow, Sunday afternoon, or possibly Monday!

Synopsis: On the phone, Hilda, who previously wouldn't give him a tumble, grants Lard four consecutive dates. Lard gets a haircut, with Bay Rum, and convinces Freckles to make a double date, so he and Hilda can ride in the rumble seat. When Lard goes in to pick up Hilda, he's chagrined to discover that, while he slimmed down, she's become fat.

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Reprint Notes: From Freckles and his Friends newspaper comic strip (N. E. A. Service, Inc.), 1940.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Battle in the Philippines!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, war

Feature(s): The Fighting Yanks

Character(s): Pal Peyton; Buck Banning; Snorky York; Filipino guerillas; Japanese soldiers; Jack Jordan; Manuelo; José; Japanese pillbox garrison; American landing troops; American soldier with flamethrower

First Line: One after another, daring Filipinos mark the Jap pillboxes with fire grenades for the Yanks mortar fire.

Synopsis: Using fire grenades aimed by Pal, Filipino guerillas mark Japanese pillboxes for the U.S. Naval bombardment. Retreating Japs pouring out of the earth overwhelm Pal and Snorky. Jack lets rip with automatic fire. Buck pulls Pal and Snorky out from under the pile of dead Japs. Manuelo and José sacrifice themselves so Pal and Snorky can occupy the pillbox tunnels. Hand to hand, Yanks and Filipinos battle the pillbox garrison. Almost unopposed, U.S. landing troops splash ashore. A U.S. flamethrower soldier takes out the pillbox garrison. From the tunnel, Pal alerts him they are friendlies.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: 12 panels per page (this issue's page count falls to 36, from 52 last issue; the story's page count was reduced to 4, from 6 pages as written; but, one presumes, without panel loss, by changing the page panel count from 8 to 12).

The art bears a resemblance to another Du Bois war series, Adventures of Omar (in Omar Super-Book of Comics). Credited artists for that strip were Dan Gormley, and W. B. Smith.

Du Bois writer credit per page 87, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985.

Du Bois markers:
• Peoples of the world: non-white. The focus of the story is the contribution of the Filipino guerillas, who are personalized; their bravery and sacrifice for liberty.
• Language: Spanish, Japanese. Accents: Spanish. "Viva liberdad!" "Bueno!" "Abajo Nippon!" "Banzai! Banzai!" "Get inside, Capitan! Jose and I weel close the door!" "Vivan ... las Filipinas!" "Caramba! They weel burn us next!"

Back in Egypt

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin

Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin

Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Alley Oop

Character(s): Alley Oop; soldier of Egypt; crocodile

First Line: Alley Oop, wearing the magic belt, having unconsciously wished himself back in Ancient Egypt, is set upon by a soldier.

Synopsis: Having unwittingly wished himself back to Cleopatra's Egypt, Oop faces off a soldier of Egypt. Espying the Nile's breadth, he figures his armor would thwart swimming across. Seeing a bird fly across, he wishes he could fly, and finds himself in the air. Bemused, he tumbles into the water next to a crocodile on the shore!

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Reprint Notes: From Alley Oop newspaper comic strip (N. E. A. Service, Inc.), 1940, December.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Appears to be two consecutive Sunday pages.

Little Beaver's Mystery Arrow

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois [as Fred Harman]

Penciller(s): Fred Harman (signed)

Inker(s): Fred Harman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, western

Feature(s): Little Beaver

Character(s): Little Beaver (a Navajo youngster); Red Ryder; Pock-mark Pete

First Line: 'scare us off Pock-mark Pete's trail, and I don't mean maybe!'

Synopsis: An ancient arrow knocks Red's hat off. Come dusk, Red scaled the stone tower while Little Beaver covered him from below. The Navajo youth let fly with four arrows at four figures, scoring each time, but none of the figures were affected by them. Red called down: Pock-mark Pete was trussed up. The figures were mummified ancient warriors of a bygone tribe.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Continued from Inside front cover. Concludes.

Title and writer credit per page 87, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985).

Howling

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Abe Martin

Penciller(s): Abe Martin

Inker(s): Abe Martin

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Boots

Character(s): Fat; girl

First Line: Boy! This is my night t'howl! I feel it comin' on!

Synopsis: Fat is grooving until the girl upsets his groove with news of Boots.

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Reprint Notes: From Boots newspaper comic strip (N. E. A. Service, Inc.), 1942, Sunday.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1