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Issue Details

Issue #657
Published November 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 657." Code number is M.MEN #657-5511. Copyright 1955 by Western Publishing & Lithographing Company. Sixth of six Ben Bowie Four Colors. Continues as Ben Bowie and His Mountain Men (Dell, 1956 series) #7 (May-July 1956).

Cover Details

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

1 page filler "Building a Log Cabin"

Synopsis Description of building a log cabin.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with typeset text.

17 page Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men story "The Dangerous Coast"

Characters Ben Bowie; Jim; Zeke; Nakah
Synopsis Ben must find a way to draw the French and their Algonquin Indian warriors into an open meadow for a showdown with the British Redcoat soldiers.
Genre period

16 page Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men story "The Hunters"

Characters Ben Bowie; Jim; Zeke; Nakah
Synopsis Ben and his men go far to the West, searching for buffalo. They find the buffalo, but are captured by Sauk Indians, who don't intend to let them return to the East.
Genre period
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

Half page Gulliver's Travels promo (ad from the publisher) "A Shipwreck, An Unknown Land..."

Characters Gulliver
Letters typeset
Notes Promo for Dell Junior Treasury #3 (Gulliver's Travels). Drawn version of cover is depicted. Promo comes at the bottom of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.