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| Date | | Number: 290 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | 0290 - The Chief | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 |
| Notes | On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series 1950, and induction from that volume's records of the on-sale dates (© icon) for Four Color issues #289 (1950-07-11) and #291 (1950-07-25), showing a separation of 14 days between them, hence 7 days at the midpoint between 289 & 291 being #290, 1950-07-18. 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." Indicia title is "THE CHIEF, No. 290." Code number is CHIEF O.S. #290-508. Copyright 1949, 1950 by Western Printing and Lithographing Co. First Four Color issue. Continues as The Chief (Dell, 1951 series) with #2 (April-June 1951). |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Synopsis | American Indians doing a night-time dance. |
| Feature | The Chief |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub (painting) |
| Inks | Morris Gollub (painting) |
| Colors | Morris Gollub (painting) |
| Notes | Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Illustration | Blackfeet Chieftain (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Blackfeet chieftain, wearing a head-dress. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub |
| Inks | Morris Gollub |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. |
| 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. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Running Wolf ["Buffalo Caller"]; Pawnee Chief War Eagle |
| Script | Gaylord Du Bois |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub |
| Inks | Morris Gollub |
| Text Article | War Clubs and Tomahawks (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Illustrations of war clubs, tomahawks, and lacrosse sticks, with hand-lettered text. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub |
| Inks | Morris Gollub |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| 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. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Pawnee Chief War Eagle |
| Script | Gaylord Du Bois |
| Pencils | Jon Small (signed) |
| Inks | Jon Small (signed) |
| Notes | Art signed in splash panel. |
| 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. |
| Feature | Home Builders |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub |
| Inks | Morris Gollub |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Badger Cub; Little Doe; Auntie Crowfoot; Pawnee Chief War Eagle |
| Script | Gaylord Du Bois |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub |
| Inks | Morris Gollub |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Illustration | Sac and Fox Warrior (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Head and shoulders portrait of a warrior with mohawk haircut and war paint. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub |
| Inks | Morris Gollub |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Drawing made for the back cover of Lone Ranger #21. |
| Illustration | No Title (1 page) |
| 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." |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Pencils | Morris Gollub (painting) |
| Inks | Morris Gollub (painting) |
| Colors | Morris Gollub (painting) |
| First Line | For the first time— Authentic stories, portraying the life and customs of the American Indian, before the coming of the white man. |
| Notes | Back cover. Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
