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Issue: The Chief #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1951
 
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Issues: #2 of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/16/1951
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia does not have a month of publication.

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.

On sale date 1951-01-16 per page 325 of 674 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1951 Pamphlets.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding:  
Publishing Format: was intended to be ongoing
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painted)
Inker(s): ? (painted)
Colorist(s): ? (painted)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Feature(s): The Chief
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Indian Sign Language

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: How to say 6 different words in Indian Sign Language (including season, woman and white man).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover and inside back cover. Includes indicia.
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The Captive of the Mountain Makers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Feature(s): The Chief
Character(s): Young Otter; Prairie Dove
Synopsis: Young Otter saves Prairie Dove from being sacrificed to the sun god upon the altar atop the pyramid by the sun priests of the tribe who live in the walled city.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Job Number: The Chief #2-512
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott states: "The Captive of the Mountain Makers (synopsis). 14p. For War Eagle. Sent March 5, 1950." NOTE: Parenthetical 'synop' is lined out in red.
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The Exile

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Fleet Hawk
Synopsis: Fleet Hawk fails the manhood initiation of the Wolf Clan. He is exiled for a season. A wolf pack attacks him in his exile. He kills the huge wolf leader by knife in mortal combat, skins it, wears its pelt as a wolf's head hood, undertakes many anonymous heroics for his clan. He finally unmasks himself. Denouement: "We who sent you out in scorn, admired you unknowingly and called you the Wolf God! We who sent you forth in shame welcome back The Exile!"
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Comics Digest #31 published August 1973
as The Exile [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: This is the same artist as on Tonto and Sergeant Preston.
Notice the accuracy of the posed figures and details of objects. That is because Giolitti took pictures of himself and his friends dressed like the characters of the strip, and used it as a guideline for the final drawing. He had photographs, books, magazines and objects used for backgrounds and artifacts. He also had models of real weapons.
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Squaw Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Pawnee chief; Pawnee brave 1 (dialogue); Pawnee brave 2 (dialogue); Pawnee brave 3 (dialogue); other Pawnee braves (pictured); Stone Hawk (a Pawnee); Gentle Deer (his wife); Demon Bear (a big bear)
First Line: A Pawnee brave and a coward, Stone Hawk, you turned and ran when the Cheyennes attacked. I must punish you.
Synopsis: Having been named coward by the tribe, Stone Hawk is told he may remain among them as a squaw, doing women's work, or go it alone. He chooses the latter, declaring he will prove his courage by killing the demon bear. His wife chooses to accompany him. By his skills and with her help they persevere against a most persistent bear, and return to the tribe victorious.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: This is the second of Du Bois's four-episode series about the marriage of White Wolf the Pawnee and Moon Maiden of the Onondaga.

Written as a ten page story "White Wolf Sets a Trap," it had been editorially altered. It is now eleven pages, and, while the protagonist remains Pawnee, his name has been changed to Stone Hawk. The tribe are now also Pawnee instead of Onondaga, and Moon Maiden's name has been changed to Gentle Deer.

Du Bois identifiers mark it clearly as his, and the contents of the story tally with both the title as originally written, and the ongoing story of the other three episodes.

Du Bois writer i.d. by David Porta, October 2021.
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White Wolf and the Pelt Robber

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): White Wolf; Moon Maiden
Synopsis: Marriage is a partnership. Onondaga bride Moon Maiden and her Pawnee husband White Wolf leave for new hunting grounds; she teaches him the hunting and trapping secrets. He is hurt in a fight with a wolverine. Her skill and love bring him back from death. She exults that the Great Spirit is filling their snares with game. White Wolf redounds the praise to her, declaring the Great Spirit has given her strong "medicine." She remarks that they shall be rich when they return to her father's wickiup, but even if they were poor, she should still feel rich with her husband! He feels likewise.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott states: "White Wolf and The Pelt Robber. 8p For War Eagle, stock. Sent April 2, 1950."
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (painted)
Inker(s): ? (painted)
Colorist(s): ? (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
First Line: This famous painting shows a Minatree "Dog Soldier"...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Backcover of comic.

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