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Issue Details

Issue #598
Published November 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
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 Details - "Captain Davy Jones"

Characters Capt. Davy Jones
Genre period
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page filler "Yankee Shipping"

Synopsis Facts about shipping in the American colonies in the 18th Century.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Short typeset article with six illustrations done in woodcut style.

33 page Captain Davy Jones story "Captain Davy Jones"

Characters Capt. Davy Jones; Willie Hawkins; Bull Slocum
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 period; adventure
Pencils Ernie Schroeder
Inks Ernie Schroeder
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)

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Three exciting Dell Comics..."

Characters Ben Bowie (cameo); Turok (cameo); Sir Lancelot (cameo)
Letters typeset
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.