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Issue: Four Color #1214
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #1214 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Smokey the Bear Nature Stories
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/22/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SMOKEY THE BEAR NATURE STORIES, No. 1214." Code number is SMOKEY T.B. O.S. #1214-618. Copyright 1961 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "September-November 1961" cover date.

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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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Smokey the Bear Nature Stories

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
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Pages: 1
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Animals of the Land

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Quick facts about reindeer, deer mouse, coypu, snapping turtle, the fisher, and collared peccary.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white.
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The Blazing Canyon Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis: Smokey, Little Smokey, and Specs the Raccoon use a bulldozer to dig a fire line and contain a forest fire set by a poacher.
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Pages: 12
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The Musk Ox

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis: Facts about the musk ox.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possibly a Sunday newspaper strip reprint.
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The California Condor

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey
Synopsis: Facts about the California condor.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possibly a Sunday newspaper strip reprint.
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Eager Beavers

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis: Smokey, Little Smokey, and Specs have to contend with a band of beavers that persist in damming up a stream and flooding Smokey's cabin.
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The Horse

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis: Facts about horses.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possibly a Sunday newspaper strip reprint.
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How to Read Trail Signs

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Inker(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis: What to look for when tracking animals.
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The Land Grabbers

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs; Slick (villain); Gimp (villain)
Synopsis: After Smokey finishes constructing a causeway to help protect an egret colony, Slick and Gimp use a loophole in the law to set up a fishing boat rental on the edge of the colony. Smokey eventually foils the pair's plan to shoot egrets and strip them of their valuable plumes.
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Animals of the Air

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the bald eagle, road runner, wild turkey, arctic tern, cowbird, and hummingbird.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.
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Animals of the Sea

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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the pearl oyster, blue whale, American eel, Portuguese man-of-war, sardine, and coral.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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