Issue | #893 |
Published | March 1958 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "JIM BOWIE, No. 893." Code number is JIM B. O.S. #893-583. Copyright 1958 by Jim Bowie Enterprises, Inc. Based on 1956-58 ABC TV series "The Adventures of Jim Bowie." First of two Jim Bowie Four Color issues. |
Characters | Jim Bowie (as played by Scott Forbes, photo) |
Genre | western |
Pencils | ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (photo) |
Colors | ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Jim Bowie (as played by Scott Forbes, photo) |
Synopsis | Introduction to series. |
Genre | western |
Pencils | ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (photo) |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos from the TV series and typeset text. |
Characters | Jim Bowie; Ed Bowie |
Synopsis | Jim Bowie comes to Swamp City, Louisiana, to visit his brother Ed and finds that the town is in control of a crooked sheriff. The problem is the sheriff once saved Jim Bowie's life. |
Genre | western |
Script | Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer |
Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
Inks | Bill Ziegler |
Notes | Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
Characters | Jim Bowie; Jean Lafitte |
Synopsis | Bowie happens across waterfront thieves stealing a piece of cargo. He takes the box to his room, where he finds the pirate Jean Lafitte waiting for him. The two discover that the box contains jewels belonging to the Margate estate. |
Genre | western |
Script | Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer |
Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
Inks | Bill Ziegler |
Notes | The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
Characters | Jim Bowie; Rezin Bowie |
Synopsis | How the Bowie brothers invented the "Bowie Knife." |
Genre | fact; western |
Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
Inks | Bill Ziegler |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. |
Characters | Jim Bowie; James Black |
Synopsis | How Jim Bowie perfected his knife and had a prototype forged by blacksmith James Black. |
Genre | fact; western |
Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
Inks | Bill Ziegler |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. |