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Issue Details

Issue #599
Published November 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 599." Code number is M.MEN O.S. #599-5411. Copyright 1954 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company. Fourth of six Ben Bowie Four Colors.

Cover Details

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

1 page filler "Snowshoe Making"

Synopsis Directions on making frontier-style snowshoes.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text.

17 page Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men story "Surrounded"

Characters Ben Bowie, Jim Prentice
Synopsis Ben and Jim visit Jed Turner's trading post, which is located on an island in a lake. They find the post deserted and upon investigation find Jed's wife and child in a canoe. Jed has been captured by hostile Huron Indians. Later Ben and Jim narrowly escape capture by an Algonquian war party. Late in the night, Ben and Jim rescue Ned and in the morning the Hurons and Algonquians engage in a battle.
Genre period
Pencils William Overgard
Inks William Overgard
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men story "Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men and The Earth Mounds"

Characters Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah
Synopsis Ben and his men escort two government surveyors into the uncharted Northwest Territory to reach the 82nd Meridian.
Genre period
Pencils William Overgard
Inks William Overgard
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on 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 Brand New Dell Comics..."

Characters Turok (cameo); Capt. Davy Jones (cameo); Sir Lancelot (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes On bottom of last interior page in middle of sequence 3 story. Promo for Dell adventure comics. Line drawings of the painted covers to Turok Four Color #596; Captain Davy Jones Four Color #598, and Sir Lancelot Four Color #606 are depicted in part.