Issue: #2
Published: [April-June] 1951, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Publishing Format: Was Intended To Be Ongoing
Notes: Indicia does not have a month of publication.
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."
Designed, produced, and copyright, 1951, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
On sale date 1951-01-16 per page 325 of 674 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1951 Pamphlets.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
The Chief |
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Pencils: ? (painted) | Inks: ? (painted) | Colours: ? (painted) |
| Genre: |
Historical Western-frontier |
| Activity (2 pages) |
Indian Sign Language |
| Synopsis: |
How to say 6 different words in Indian Sign Language (including season, woman and white man). |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Comic Story (14 pages) |
The Captive of the Mountain Makers |
| Featuring: |
The Chief |
| Synopsis: |
Young Otter saves Prairie Dove from being sacrificed to the sun god upon the altar atop the pyramid by the sun priests of the tribe who live in the walled city. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Historical Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Young Otter Prairie Dove |
| Comic Story (16 pages) |
The Exile |
| Synopsis: |
Fleet Hawk fails the manhood initiation of the Wolf Clan. He is exiled for a season. A wolf pack attacks him in his exile. He kills the huge wolf leader by knife in mortal combat, skins it, wears its pelt as a wolf's head hood, undertakes many anonymous heroics for his clan. He finally unmasks himself. Denouement: "We who sent you out in scorn, admired you unknowingly and called you the Wolf God! We who sent you forth in shame welcome back The Exile!" |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Historical Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Fleet Hawk |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
White Wolf and the Pelt Robber |
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Marriage is a partnership. Onondaga bride Moon Maiden and her Pawnee husband White Wolf leave for new hunting grounds; she teaches him the hunting and trapping secrets. He is hurt in a fight with a wolverine. Her skill and love bring him back from death. She exults that the Great Spirit is filling their snares with game. White Wolf redounds the praise to her, declaring the Great Spirit has given her strong "medicine." She remarks that they shall be rich when they return to her father's wickiup, but even if they were poor, she should still feel rich with her husband! He feels likewise. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Historical Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
White Wolf Moon Maiden |
| Illustration (1 page) |
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Pencils: ? (painted) | Inks: ? (painted) | Colours: ? (painted) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Historical Western-frontier |
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