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Issue Details

Issue #855
Published November 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BROKEN ARROW, No. 855." Code number is B.ARROW O.S. #855-5711. Copyright 1957 by Elliott Arnold. Based on the 1956-58 CBS TV series "Broken Arrow." First of two Broken Arrow Four Color issues.

Cover Details

Characters Cochise (as played by Michael Ansara, photos); Tom Jeffords (as played by John Lupton, photos)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset

1 page Broken Arrow foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "I'm Tom Jeffords..."

Characters Cochise (as played by Michael Ansara, photos); Tom Jeffords (as played by John Lupton, photos)
Synopsis Introduction to series.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos from the TV show with brief typeset text.

16 page Broken Arrow story "Apache Dowry"

Characters Tom Jeffords; Cochise
Synopsis A young brave steals horses from a rancher and Indian Agent Tom Jeffords and Cochise must find a way to avoid a range war between the Apaches and the ranchers.
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).

16 page Broken Arrow story "Kingdom of Terror"

Characters Tom Jeffords; Cochise
Synopsis A Spanish Land Grant Plantation, where American law isn't honored, is using Apaches as slave labor. Jeffords and Cochise go to the plantation to find that outlaws are in charge.
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).

1 page filler "The Apache"

Synopsis Facts about Apache Indians.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Cochise"

Characters Cochise
Synopsis Apache chief Cochise and his problems with the Army.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Howard Purcell ?
Inks Howard Purcell ?
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).