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Issue: Four Color #443
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #443 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/18/1952
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 "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 443." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #443-531. Copyright 1952 by Western Printing and Lithographing. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Pamphlets, page 568.
First of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.
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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
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Character(s): Ben Bowie
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Pages: 1
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The Beaver Trapper

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about beaver trappers.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations and typeset text.
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Hostage of the Huron

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Character(s): Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
Synopsis: Ben Bowie and young Jim Prentice find a burned wilderness cabin, reminding Ben of the circumstances in which he found Jim three years earlier. After finding a woman and her young child alive in a hidden cellar in the ruins of the cabin, the four take off in pursuit of Huron Indians who killed the woman's brother and captured her husband. On the way they meet up with trapper Zeke Moss and his blood brother Nakah, an Iroquois Indian. The group finds the Huron camp and after rescuing the captive, Ben, Jim, Zeke, and Nakah decide to stay together.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Introduction of main characters.
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Trapped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Character(s): Jim Prentice; Ben Bowie
Synopsis: Jim is cornered by a bear in the forest, but manages to escape. With Ben's help he tracks the bear to its den.
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Pages: 8
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The Mission

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Character(s): Ben Bowie; Zeke Moss; Nakah; Jim Prentice (cameo)
Synopsis: Zeke and Nakah make a dangerous run with a wagon of ammunition to a fort under siege by Algonquin Indians.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color.

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