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Issue: Four Color #290
Publication Date: August 1950
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Issues: #290 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Chief
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/18/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Oskar Lebeck
Disclose 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).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Chief
Synopsis: American Indians doing a night-time dance.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Blackfeet Chieftain

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Blackfeet chieftain, wearing a head-dress.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Lone Ranger #11 published May 1949
was Chief Two-Guns White Calf [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white.
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Buffalo Caller

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Running Wolf ["Buffalo Caller"]; Pawnee Chief War Eagle
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.
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Pages: 14
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War Clubs and Tomahawks

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Illustrations of war clubs, tomahawks, and lacrosse sticks, with hand-lettered text.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Towers of Death...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Pawnee Chief War Eagle
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.
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Art signed in splash panel.
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Apache Grass Hogan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Feature(s): Home Builders
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.
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Pages: 2
Disclose 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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Blunt Arrow Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Badger Cub; Little Doe; Auntie Crowfoot; Pawnee Chief War Eagle
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.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Sac and Fox Warrior

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Head and shoulders portrait of a warrior with mohawk haircut and war paint.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Lone Ranger #21 published March 1950
was Warrior 1 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.

Drawing made for the back cover of Lone Ranger #21.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
First Line: For the first time— Authentic stories, portraying the life and customs of the American Indian, before the coming of the white man.
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."
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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