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Issue: Indian Chief #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #5 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/13/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries 1951 Periodicals Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 5 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, 1951, 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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Indian Chief
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: I.C. #5-5112
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Caribou!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Kennebec
Synopsis: Kennebec (a white man) and his brother wander too far while hunting Caribou. His brother is killed by Indians and he is left for dead.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This story is printed on the inside front and back covers.
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The Sacred Fire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Indian Chief
Character(s): Chief Great Sun; Black Crow; Painted Thunder (all Natchez)
Synopsis: Creek warriors put out the sacred flame of the Natchez while it is being guarded by Black Crow and Painted Thunder. Black Crow attempts to hide their failure. Painted Thunder ends up with the task of replacing the sacred flame.
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In Content Item: FlagGiant Comic #15 published ?
as The Sacred Fire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: The stories in Indian Chief is among the first Giolitti made when he came to America.
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The False Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Indian Chief
Character(s): Fleet Fox; White Moon; Hawk Feather (all Iroquois)
Synopsis: When Huron warriors overthrow an Iroquois camp, a young boy is taken as hostage in exchange for allowing the women to live. After ten years of peace, war breaks out again. A masked warrior comes to defend the Iroquois against the Huron.
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In Content Item: FlagGiant Comic #15 published ?
as The False Face [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.
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On the Southern Plains in 1860

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: Reproduction of painting with this commentary: "On the Southern Plains in 1860" by Frederick Remington was such a good portrayal of the old United States Cavalry in action that it now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their arms were an "Army Colt" and a saber.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is the back cover.

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