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Issue Details

Issue #744
Published November 1956
Cover Price [0.10 USD] ?
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "LITTLE BEAVER, No. 744." Code number is L.B.O.S. #744-5611. Copyright 1956 by Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc. Tenth of twelve Little Beaver Four Colors. Based on the "Red Ryder" newspaper strip by Fred Harman. There is no price listed on the cover.

Cover Details - The Secret of "The Howling Cavern"

Characters Little Beaver; Po-Ko
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "Indian Hunter"

Synopsis Facts about the Indian style of hunting.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration with typeset text.

12 page Little Beaver story "The Howling Cavern"

Characters Little Beaver; Chief White Cloud; Silvertail (dog)
Synopsis When their sheep disappear and strange noises are heard from a cavern, the Navaho decide to move away to escape displeased spirits. While chasing his dog, Little Beaver goes into "haunted ground" and finds two white men who are behind the plan to get the Indians to move.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle ?
Inks Dan Spiegle ?

10 page Little Beaver story "The Sly Thief"

Characters Little Beaver; Midnight (crow)
Synopsis When an embezzler meets a bank examiner on his way to his new job in Rimrock, the embezzler shoots the examiner and steals his identity in order to take the bank job. Little Beaver finds the victim and tries to tell the bank president that his new examiner is a fake.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle ?
Inks Dan Spiegle ?

12 page Little Beaver story "Three Black Sheep"

Characters Little Beaver; Po-Ko; Grandma Snapturtle; Chief White Cloud; Sheriff Newt
Synopsis When Little Beaver interrupts a council meeting while practicing his sheep stalking in a sheepskin, he is punished by having to guard the tribe's sheep while the rest go to a sing on Spirit Mountain. When the tribe is gone, two sheep rustlers tie up Little Beaver and steal the sheep with wagons.
Genre western
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is the second panel on the inside back cover, in the middle of the story.