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Issue Details

Issue #947
Published November 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BROKEN ARROW, No. 947." Code number is B.ARROW.O.S. #947-5811. Copyright 1958 by Elliot Arnold. Based on the "Broken Arrow" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Tom Jeffords (as played by John Lupton, photo); Cochise (as played by Michael Ansara, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "BROKEN ARROW, No. 947." Code number is B.ARROW.O.S. #947-5811. Copyright 1958 by Elliot Arnold. Based on the "Broken Arrow" TV series.

1 page Broken Arrow foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Vengeance Trail"

Characters Tom Jeffords (as played by John Lupton, photo); Cochise (as played by Michael Ansara, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the second story in the issue.
Genre western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos from the TV series with brief typeset text. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

12 page Broken Arrow story "Desert Ordeal"

Characters Tom Jeffords; Cochise
Synopsis Jeffords and Cochise capture a killer in the desert. They must return him to Tucson or an Apache will hang for murder. However Cochise has been shot and they have lost their horses.
Genre western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

10 page Broken Arrow story "Vengeance Trail"

Characters Tom Jeffords; Cochise
Synopsis Lack of communication causes an Army patrol to attack a band of Apaches who have been given permission to camp by the fort. The women and children of the Apache band are captured, but the Chief and his warriors begin a series of raids on the white men. Jeffords and Cochise have to try to stop the bloodshed.
Genre western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

10 page Broken Arrow story "Trackdown"

Characters Tom Jeffords; Cochise; Geronimo
Synopsis An Apache messenger thinks he killed a white man and Cochise and Jeffords must track him down, all the while dodging the threat of Geronimo's raiders.
Genre western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Stronghold"

Synopsis The Chiricahua strongholds, mountain passages that let the Apaches keep enemies at bay with only a few men.
Genre fact; western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Indian Agent"

Synopsis Duties of Indian agents in the old West.
Genre fact; western
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with typset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).