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Issue: Four Color #820
Publication Date: June 1957
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Issues: #820 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Oklahoman
Variant: 10¢ Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell A Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1957
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "THE OKLAHOMAN, No. 820."
Code number is T.O.O.S. #820-576.
Copyright 1957 by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.
"Movie Classic" on cover.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Title Page
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The Oklahoman

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Dr. John Brighton (photo of Joel McCrea); Cass Dobie (photo of Brad Dexter)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Oklahoman

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Dr. John Brighton (photo of Joel McCrea); Cass Dobie (photo of Brad Dexter); Charlie Smith (photo of Michale Pate)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Seven photos from the movie plus partial cast list.
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The Oklahoman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Daniel B. Ullman (movie writer)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Dr. John Brighton; Cass Dobie; Jim Hawk; Maria Smith; Charlie Smith; Mel Dobie
Synopsis: Dr. John Brighton settles in Cherokee Wells after his wife dies giving birth to his daughter. Five years later, big cattleman Cass Dobie is trying to run off the smaller ranchers and makes an enemy of the Doctor. Cass Dobie suspects there is oil on Indian Charlie Smith's property. He sends his brother Mel to take a sample for analysis, but Smith sees him and Mel tries to shoot him. Smith kills him with a knife and Cass Dobie vows revenge. Dr. Brighton has to keep Smith safe from Cass until the inquest.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Oklahoman #[nn] published October 1958
as The Oklahoman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Based on the 1957 movie "The Oklahoman." Script credit from "Who's Who in American Comic Books 1928-1999" website. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). "R. Jenney" appears on a store sign in panel two of page two of the story.
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The First Oil Well

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Edwin Drake
Synopsis: The drilling of the first oil well by Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania in 1859.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Land Rush

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: A description of the land rush in Oklahoma in 1889.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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