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| Publication | August 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Synopsis | American Indians doing a night-time dance. |
| Featuring | The Chief |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Illustration | Blackfeet Chieftain (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Blackfeet chieftain, wearing a head-dress. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. |
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| Comic Story | Buffalo Caller (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | While his three comrades eat breakfast, Running Wolf, a Pawnee, nephew of Chief War Eagle, finds a buffalo herd that could feed the tribe for a year. Three Cheyenne enemy hunters appear, rivals for the herd, and liable to scalp him. Running Wolf's bow-string breaks. He flees, diving in the river, hiding underwater against a rock in the rapids. The Cheyenne believe him dead. Running Wolf runs home; he alerts War Eagle of the herd and the Cheyenne. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Running Wolf ["Buffalo Caller"]; Pawnee Chief War Eagle |
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| Text Article | War Clubs and Tomahawks (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Illustrations of war clubs, tomahawks, and lacrosse sticks, with hand-lettered text. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | The Towers of Death... (20 pages) |
| Synopsis | Once upon a time there was a nearby Pueblo Indian town of stone and brick. One rainy night a Pueblo band sneaked in the Pawnee village and stole the Pawnee's sacred bundle.
The next evening, Pawnee Chief Wounded Bear led a band of his braves to attack the Pueblo town and retrieve the sacred bundle, but they were surprised by the Pueblos, and only Wounded Bear escaped. He raised an army, but they found the Pueblo town deserted, but for some corpses. The sacred bundle was missing. The trail was lost, and Pawnee fell ill with the Pueblo sickness. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Pawnee Chief War Eagle |
| Notes | Art signed in splash panel. |
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| Comic Story | Apache Grass Hogan (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The building of thatch huts among the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona. Informative text accompanies borderless panel illustrations, with dialogue balloons, of an Apache family building a winter home: Clearing a circle, cutting of saplings for a dome frame, tying bundles of bear-grass to the frame, from bottom to top. (Chippewas use birch bark.) For a summer home: a three-sided house thatched on top, and thatched only part-way up on three walls. |
| Featuring | Home Builders |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Title reads, "Home Builders No. 1 Apache Grass Hogan," suggesting this is intended to be a series about different types of dwellings. Running along the bottom of both pages are a sequence of small illustrations of 12 different types of dwelling-structures, including African huts, bark hogan, tee-pee, south sea stilt hut, log cabin, suburban home. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | Blunt Arrow Boy (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Those little rascals of the Pawnee village, Badger Cub and Little Doe, play mischief with Auntie Crowfoot at her labors, as Badger Cub shoots a blunt arrow, knocking over her water gourd for target practice. In her ire, Auntie Crowfoot gives chase. They elude her, and Badger Cub continues target practice, knocking down a cottontail. They come upon a dead rattler, trampled by the hooves of a mare, herself dead of snake-bite; and her colt who will not desert his mother's carcass. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Badger Cub; Little Doe; Auntie Crowfoot; Pawnee Chief War Eagle |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Illustration | Sac and Fox Warrior (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Head and shoulders portrait of a warrior with mohawk haircut and war paint. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white.
Drawing made for the back cover of Lone Ranger #21. |
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| Synopsis | Four mounted Indians, three wielding lances, and one wielding a tomahawk, gallop over a small grassy bluff. The lead Indian wearing a head-dress, holding his lance forward, in a charge. The caption of this house-ad reads, "Authentic stories, portraying the life and customs of the American Indian before the coming of the White Man." |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Back cover. Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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