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Issue Details

Issue #513
Published November 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 513." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #513-5311. Copyright 1953 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company. Second of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters Ben Bowie
Genre period; adventure
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Mountain Men"

Synopsis Short overview of what is meant by "mountain men."
Genre period
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover, black and white. Three illustrations with typeset text.

17 page Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men story "The Hostiles"

Characters Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Nakah, Zeke Moss
Synopsis Ben and his friends help fend off Huron Indian raiders at a rickety fort nicknamed "Fort Indefensible."
Genre period
Pencils William Overgard [as WO]
Notes Art identification by Martin Olsen via the error tracker (January 2009).

17 page Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men story "A Trap for the Beaver Trappers"

Characters Ben Bowie; Zeke Moss; Nakah; Jim Prentice
Synopsis Ben and his men are trapping beaver, but their traps are being robbed by a renegade white man and his Algonquian Indian helpers.
Genre period
Pencils William Overgard [as WO]
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Art identification by Martin Olsen via the error tracker (January 2009).