Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 599." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #599-5411. Copyright 1954 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company. Fourth of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.
Cover
1 page
Feature
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Genre
Historical
Characters
Ben Bowie
Text Article
Snowshoe Making (1 page)
Synopsis
Directions on making frontier-style snowshoes.
Letters
typeset
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.
Feature
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Genre
Historical
Characters
Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice
Pencils
Bill Overgard
Inks
Bill Overgard
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 (16.67 pages)
Synopsis
Ben and his men escort two government surveyors into the uncharted Northwest Territory to reach the 82nd Meridian.
Feature
Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men
Genre
Historical
Characters
Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
Pencils
Bill Overgard
Inks
Bill Overgard
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...
Letters
typeset
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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