Extra-nice Schroeder art job on this one. He seems to have loved drawing the ships.
By tdefores
Two friends and I did a page-by-page commentary on this book. You can watch it here:
https://vimeo.com/117762172
Additional Information
Name
0598 - Captain Davy Jones | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
Indicia title is "CAPTAIN DAVY JONES, No. 598." Code number is D.J.O.S. #598-5411. Copyright 1954 by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. First and only Captain Davy Jones Four Color.
Cover
Captain Davy Jones / 1 page
Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Genre
Historical
Characters
Capt. Davy Jones
Text Article
Yankee Shipping (1 page)
Synopsis
Facts about shipping in the American colonies in the 18th Century.
Letters
typeset
Genre
Non-fiction
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Short typeset article with six illustrations done in woodcut style.
Comic Story
Captain Davy Jones (33.75 pages)
Synopsis
In the 18th century, pirate Richard Teach pretends to be a merchant ship captain and lures ships close by pretending to be a ship in distress. Captain Davy Jones and his crew on the ship "Pilgrim" are assigned to help guard Boston Harbor and find the pirates who are disrupting shipping.
Genre
Adventure; Historical
Characters
Capt. Davy Jones; Willie Hawkins; Bull Slocum
Pencils
Ernie Schroeder
Inks
Ernie Schroeder
Letters
John Duffy
Notes
House ad at bottom 1/4 of last interior page. Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Publisher advertisement
Three exciting Dell Comics...
Letters
typeset
Characters
Ben Bowie (cameo); Turok (cameo); Sir Lancelot (cameo)
Notes
Promo for Dell Four Colors #599 (Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men), #596 (Turok Son of Stone), and #606 (Sir Lancelot), with line-drawn reproductions of the painted covers of each issue. (None of the covers is depicted in full, due to layout of the ad.) Promo comes at the bottom of last interior page, in the middle of the story.
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