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Issue Details

Issue #632
Published June-August 1955
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Zane Grey's FIGHTING CARAVANS, No. 632." Code number is Z.G.O.S. #632-556. Copyright 1955 by Zane Grey, Inc. Last Zane Grey Four Color. Continues as Zane Grey's Stories of the West (Dell, 1955 series) with #27 (September-November 1955).

Cover Details - "Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans"

Characters Clint Belmet
Genre western
Pencils Hank Hartman (painting) (signed)
Inks Hank Hartman (painting) (signed)
Colors Hank Hartman (painting) (signed)
Letters typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Dell is proud to present one of its many awards...."

Synopsis Facsimile of Distinguished Achievement Award given Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. by Newsdealers Post Number 1169 American Legion on November 14, 1954.
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Also includes typeset version of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." (not in usual form.)

33 page story "Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans"

Characters Clint Belmet; May Bell; Lee Murdock
Synopsis Clint Belmet's mother, father, and dog fall victim to separate Indian attacks while he is working as a freighter for wagon trains. He is separated from his sweetheart and spends many years searching for her.
Genre western
Script Zane Grey (original story); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
Pencils Albert Micale
Inks Albert Micale
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." Adapted from the 1929 novel "Fighting Caravans" by Zane Grey. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Don't Miss Zane Grey's Roundup"

Letters typeset
Notes Promo for Zane Grey's Stories of the West (Dell, 1955 series) #27 (September-November 1955). Line-drawn version of the painted cover is depicted. Promo is the bottom third of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.