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Issue Details

Issue #687
Published March 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE INDIAN FIGHTER, No. 687." Code number is I.F.O.S. #687-563. Copyright 1956 by Bryna Productions, Inc. Based on the 1956 movie "The Indian Fighter."

Cover Details - "The Indian Fighter"

Characters Kirk Douglas (as Johnny Hawks, photo); Eduard Franz (as Red Cloud, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE INDIAN FIGHTER, No. 687." Code number is I.F.O.S. #687-563. Copyright 1956 by Bryna Productions, Inc. Based on the 1956 movie "The Indian Fighter."

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Indian Fighter"

Characters Kirk Douglas (as Johnny Hawks, photo); Eduard Franz (as Red Cloud, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Seven photos from the movie plus partial cast and credits list.

34 page story "The Indian Fighter"

Characters Johnny Hawks; Onahti; Grey Wolf; Red Cloud; Wes Todd (villain); Chivington (villain)
Synopsis Johnny Hawks guides a wagon train through Sioux territory. Two whites try to learn the location of the Indian gold and kill an Indian. Hawks has to fight Grey Wolf to take a suspect back to the fort. At the fort the suspects are let loose to leave with the wagon train, and are still determined to find the Indian gold. The pair trade whiskey for information and eventually kill two more Indians, starting a war in their lust for gold.
Genre western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Mike Roy
Inks Mike Peppe
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents. Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)