Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men 07

Publication May-July 1956| 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

Text Article Another Outstanding Award for Dell Comics (1 page)

Credits Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset

Content Characters: George T. Delacorte, Jr. (photo); Col. Draper F. Henry (photo); Major General Lucas V. Beau (photo); Hon. John I. Lerom (photo); Col. C. Short (photo)

Notes Dell Comics wins the Civil Air Patrol citation for Outstanding Service to Youth. On inside front cover in black and white.

Comic Story Forcing the River (17 pages)

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits Job #: B.B.#7-565

Content Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Ben Bowie; Zeke; Nakah; Jim; Stace; 

Red Hand

Comic Story The Indian Alliance (17 pages)

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Content Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Ben Bowie; Zeke; Nakah; Jim; The Prophet

Notes Story continues on inside back cover and back cover. Inside back cover is in black and white.

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Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #06 (Four Color #657)

Publication May 1955 | 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

Text Article "Building a Log Cabin"
 Cover / 1 page
Pencils: Hank Hartman ? (painting)
Inks: Hank Hartman ? (painting)
Colors: Hank Hartman ? (painting)
Letters: typeset
Synopsis: Description of building a log cabin

Comic story The Dangerous Coast
Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men  ( 17 pages )
Script:?Pencils:?Inks:?Colors:?Letters:?

Genre: Historical  Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim; Zeke; Nakah

Synopsis: Ben must find a way to draw the French and their Algonquin Indian warriors
into an open meadow for a showdown with the British Redcoat soldiers.

Comic story The Hunters
Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men  ( 17 pages )
Script:?Pencils:?Inks:?Colors:?Letters:?

Genre: Historical  Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim; Zeke; Nakah
Synopsis:Ben and his men go far to the West, searching for buffalo. They find the buffalo, but are captured by Sauk Indians, who don't intend to let them return to the East.

Indexer Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on
 back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

"A Shipwreck, An Unknown Land..." Gulliver's Travels 
 promo (ad from the publisher) 

0.33 page

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Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #05 (Four Color #626)

Publication May 1955 | 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

Text Article "None could escape the Fight for the Fort!"
 Cover / 1 page
Pencils: Hank Hartman ? (painting)
Inks: Hank Hartman ? (painting)
Colors: Hank Hartman ? (painting)
Letters: typeset

Comic story Fight for the Fort 
Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men  ( 17 pages )
Script:?Pencils:?Inks:?Colors:?Letters:?

Genre: western-frontier Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim; Zeke; Nakah

Synopsis:The British plan to push the Wilderness Road a hundred miles further west and built two forts. The commander hires Ben and his men to help protect them from Iroquois warriors under the command of the new chief, Black Crow.

Comic story The Escape
Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men  ( 17 pages )
Script:?Pencils:?Inks:?Colors:?Letters:?

Genre: western-frontier Characters:Ben Bowie; Jim.

Synopsis:  Ben and Jim are captured by Shawnee Indians and are "adopted" into the tribe, clothed in Indian garb, and have their heads partially shaved. The pair escape from the Shawnee but have to convince the nearby settlers they are not Indians.

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Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #04 (Four Color #557)

Publication November 1954 | 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

Text Article Snowshoe Making (1 page)

Synopsis Directions on making frontier-style snowshoes.

Credits Letters: typeset

Content Genre: Non-fiction

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

Comic Story Surrounded (17 pages)

Synopsis Ben and Jim visit Jed Turner's trading post, which is located on an island in a lake. They find the post deserted and upon investigation find Jed's wife and child in a canoe. Jed has been captured by hostile Huron Indians. Later Ben and Jim narrowly escape capture by an Algonquian war party. Late in the night, Ben and Jim rescue Ned and in the morning the Hurons and Algonquians engage in a battle.

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits Pencils: William Overgard | Inks: William Overgard

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

Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Comic Story Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men and The Earth Mounds (16 pages)

Synopsis Ben and his men escort two government surveyors into the uncharted Northwest Territory to reach the 82nd Meridian.

Featuring Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men

Credits Pencils: William Overgard | Inks: William Overgard

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

Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Publisher advertisement Three Brand New Dell Comics...

Credits Letters: typeset

Content Characters: Turok (cameo); Captain Davy Jones (cameo); Sir Lancelot (cameo)

Notes On bottom of last interior page in middle of sequence 3 story. Promo for Dell adventure comics. Line drawings of the painted covers to Turok Four Color #596; Captain Davy Jones Four Color #598, and Sir Lancelot Four Color #606 are depicted in part.

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Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #03 (Four Color #557)

Publication May 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36

Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men

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

Content Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Ben Bowie

Text Article How to Tan a Deerhide (1 page)

Synopsis Directions for tanning a deerhide.

Credits Pencils: Frank Thorne [as FT] (signed) | Inks: Frank Thorne [as FT] (signed) | Letters: typeset

Content Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier

Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text. Art id by Martin Olsen via the Error Tracker (January 2009).

Comic Story The Wilderness Trail (17 pages)

Synopsis Ben and his men help a wagon train of settlers fight off hostile Shawnee Indians as they make their way to the end of the Wilderness Trail at Garsen's Gap.

Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men

Credits Pencils: Frank Thorne | Inks: Frank Thorne

Content Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah

Notes Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011).

Comic Story The Rival Company (15 pages)

Synopsis Ben and Jim bring their beaver skins to the trading post only to find that the post operator is only buying from a man named Weber, who is using 20 Indians to force a monopoly on beaver trade in the area.

Featuring Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men

Credits Pencils: Frank Thorne | Inks: Frank Thorne

Content Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah

Notes Story continues on inside cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011).

Coming soon: Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men #04 (Four Color #599) 

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

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

Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Credits    Pencils:? (painting) | Inks:? (painting) | Colors:? (painting)
Content    Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie

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Foreword/Afterword    Mountain Men (1 page)
Synopsis    Short overview of what is meant by "mountain men."
Credits    Pencils: William Overgard | Inks: William Overgard | Letters: typeset
Content    Genre: Historical
Notes    Inside front cover, black and white. Three illustrations with typeset text. Art credit based on comparison of brush strokes of trees in interior and also positioning of figures. Gene Reed 8/22/2016

Comic Story    The Hostiles (17 pages)
Synopsis    Ben and his friends help fend off Huron Indian raiders at a rickety fort nicknamed "Fort Indefensible."
Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Credits    Script: Paul S. Newman | Pencils: William Overgard [as WO] | Inks: William Overgard
Content    Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Nakah, Zeke Moss
Notes    Art identification by Martin Olsen via the error tracker (January 2009). Ink credit based on comparisons of Overgard's art for Prize, Lev Gleason and Ziff-Davis, Particularly The Hawk. Gene Reed 8/22/2016.

Comic Story    A Trap for the Beaver Trappers (17 pages)
Synopsis    Ben and his men are trapping beaver, but their traps are being robbed by a renegade white man and his Algonquian Indian helpers.
Featuring    Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Credits    Script: Paul S. Newman | Pencils: William Overgard [as WO] | Inks: William Overgard
Content    Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Bowie; Zeke Moss; Nakah; Jim Prentice
Notes    Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Art identification by Martin Olsen via the error tracker (January 2009). Ink credit based on comparisons of Overgard's art for Prize, Lev Gleason and Ziff-Davis, Particularly The Hawk. Gene Reed 8/22/2016.

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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).

 



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