Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #01 (Four Color #443)

Ben Bowie and His Mountain

 Publisher: Dell
Publication Dates: May-July 1956 – November 1958-January 1959
Number of Issues Published: 11 (#7 – #17)
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

The 6 Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men issues of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) (#443, 513, 557, 599, 626, 657) are considered by Dell to be the first 6 issues of this series.

Information thanks to the Grand Comic Database

Ben Bowie is an American series of Dell Comics ( Dell Publishing ) about a fictional character, trapper of his condition. The series has an interest in so far as it foreshadows the Davy Crockett craze which will occur shortly thereafter. It is part of the American myth of the conquest of the frontier myth revived throughout the 1950s and found its political epilogue in kennedyesque themed New Frontier .
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 Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #01 (Four Color #443)

Publication    January 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages:36

Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits    Pencils:? (painting) | Inks:? (painting) | Colors:? (painting)

Content    Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie

Scan:  unknown ( diff size edit)

Text Article    The Beaver Trapper (1 page)

Synopsis    Facts about beaver trappers.

Credits    Letters: typeset

Content    Genre: Non-fiction

Notes    Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations and typeset text.

Comic Story    Hostage of the Huron (16 pages)

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.

Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits    Pencils: William Overgard?; Jon Small? | Inks: Jon Small

Content    Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah

Notes    Introduction of main characters. Overgard pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (2007-05-14); Small pencils credit by Hames Ware (2011-06-20). Inks credit by Merlin Haas (2007-07-14) and Hames Ware (2011-06-20).

Comic Story    Trapped (8 pages)

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.

Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits    Pencils: Jon Small | Inks: Jon Small

Content    Genre: Historical | Characters: Jim Prentice; Ben Bowie

Notes    Pencils and inks credits from Hames Ware (2011-06-20).

 

Comic Story    The Mission (10 pages)

Synopsis    Zeke and Nakah make a dangerous run with a wagon of ammunition to a fort under siege by Algonquin Indians.

Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits    Pencils: Jon Small | Inks: Jon Small

Content    Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie; Zeke Moss; Nakah; Jim Prentice (cameo)

Notes    Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits from Hames Ware (2011-06-20).

 



Coming soon: Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #02 (Four Color #513)

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