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Issue Details

Issue #612
Published January 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "LITTLE BEAVER, No. 612." Code number is L.B.O.S. #612-551. Copyright 1954 by Stephen Slesinger. Based on a character from the "Red Ryder" newspaper strip by Fred Harman.

Cover Details

Characters Little Beaver
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page filler "Thumbnail Westerns"

Synopsis Little-known facts about buffalo.
Genre fact; western
Pencils August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Inks August Lenox [as Lenox] (signed)
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with hand-lettered text.

12 page Little Beaver story "The Renegades"

Characters Little Beaver; Red Horse; Grandma Snap Turtle; Black Bart (crow); Chief White Cloud
Synopsis Grandma Snap Turtle tells Little Beaver to take his troublesome pet crow into the forest and leave him. While in the forest, Little Beaver is captured by Paiute raiders when he saves a Pauite woman from an attack by a mountain lion.
Genre western
Pencils Fred Harman ?
Inks Fred Harman ?
Notes Story is signed "Fred Harman," but may or may not be by him.

8 page Little Beaver story "Mailbag Trap"

Characters Little Beaver; Po-Ko; Black Bart (crow); Sheriff Newt
Synopsis Little Beaver and Po-Ko get caught in the middle of a mail robbery at a Pony Express station.
Genre western

2 page text story "The Old Chief's Sacrifice"

Characters Chief Bear Claw; Evening Star; Walking Horse
Synopsis Crow raiders attack a Dakota village while old Chief Bear Claw is away, killing all the villagers except for Bear Claw's wife and grandson, who they take captive. Bear Claw goes to the Crow village to gain their release.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with two illustrations.

6 page Little Beaver story "All Washed Up"

Characters Little Beaver; Po-Ko; Sheriff Newt
Synopsis Little Beaver and Po-Ko are captured by two men who had robbed the Wells Fargo stage. Little Beaver sabotages the robbers' water supply by putting soap in their canteens.
Genre western

4 page story "Indian Trick"

Characters Flying Eagle; Sheriff Mayhew
Synopsis When robbers hold up in a well-stocked cave, Flying Eagle tricks them into coming out into an ambush by a posse.
Genre western

1 page filler "Wildlife Tracks in Indian Design Forms"

Synopsis Designs used by various tribes to indicate wildlife tracks.
Genre fact; western
Pencils August Lenox ?
Inks August Lenox ?
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and brief text.

1 page Little Beaver story "Smoke Signals"

Characters Little Beaver; Po-Ko
Synopsis Little Beaver mistakes the smoke from a railroad engine for smoke signals.
Genre western
Notes Back cover.