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Issue Details

Issue #884
Published March 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Cover photo may have had color retouched. Indicia title is "HAWKEYE AND THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, No. 884". Code number is HAWKEYE O.S. #884-583. Copyright 1958 by Television Programs of America, Inc. Based on the syndicated TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans".

Cover Details - "Powder Keg"

Characters John Hart (as Nat "Hawkeye" Cutler, photo); Lon Chaney, Jr. (as Chingachgook, photo)
Genre period
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Cover photo may have had color retouched. Indicia title is "HAWKEYE AND THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, No. 884". Code number is HAWKEYE O.S. #884-583. Copyright 1958 by Television Programs of America, Inc. Based on the syndicated TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans".

1 page Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters John Hart (as Nat "Hawkeye" Cutler, photo); Lon Chaney, Jr. (as Chingackgook, photo)
Synopsis One large action photo with short teaser for first story.
Genre period
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover, black and white.

16 page Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans story "False Witness"

Characters Nat "Hawkeye" Cutler; Chingachgook; Chief Wenachgo
Synopsis Two white men, Jake Collins and Hans Bachus, engage Indians to help them with a racket. They sell wagons to settlers; the Indians ambush the settlers and take the wagons and their contents; then Collins and Bachus sell the wagons again. Unable to prove his charges, Hawkeye buys the wagons himself and sets out on the trail to see what happens.
Genre period
Pencils Bob Jenney
Inks Bob Jenney
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans story "Powder Keg"

Characters Nat "Hawkeye" Cutler; Chingachgook
Synopsis The leader of a fur-trading company makes a deal with Huron Indians to provide them with rifles and gunpowder in exchange for their furs. He gives the Indians rifles, but has no gunpowder. The Indians attack Sam Durbin's trading post in search of gunpowder.
Genre period
Pencils Bob Jenney
Inks Bob Jenney
Notes Possibly adapted from "Powder Keg", Episode 14 of Season 1, first aired July 3, 1957. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Indian Alliances"

Synopsis Facts about Indian alliances with the French and English in 18th Century North America.
Genre period
Pencils Bob Jenney
Inks Bob Jenney
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath.

1 page filler "Methods of Indian Fighting"

Synopsis Facts about Indian methods of fighting the early settlers of North America.
Genre period
Pencils Bob Jenney
Inks Bob Jenney
Notes Back cover. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Panels with text underneath.