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Issue Details

Issue #949
Published November 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "HIGH ADVENTURE, No. 949." Code number is HIGH.A.O.S. #494-5811. Copyright 1958 by Odyssey Productions, Inc. Based on the "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Lowell Thomas (photo)
Genre fact
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "HIGH ADVENTURE, No. 949." Code number is HIGH.A.O.S. #494-5811. Copyright 1958 by Odyssey Productions, Inc. Based on the "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas" TV series.

1 page [Lowell Thomas High Adventure] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "New Guinea / Tracking a Man-Eater"

Characters Lowell Thomas (photo)
Synopsis Previews of the two stories in the issue.
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and brief typeset text.

16 page Lowell Thomas High Adventure story "New Guinea"

Characters Lowell Thomas; Capt. Jack Pert; Ralph Ormsby; Tom Davidson; Peter O'Sullivan
Synopsis Lowell Thomas takes an expedition on a dangerous mission to see primitive tribes in New Guinea.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Script submitted on May 17, 1958. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page Lowell Thomas High Adventure story "Tracking a Man-Eater"

Characters Lowell Thomas; Raj Kumar; John Crawford; James Hanney; Captain Girsham; Boris Lessenvitch
Synopsis Lowell Thomas takes his camera crew to India to participate in the hunt for a man-eating tiger.
Genre fact; jungle
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script submitted on May 14, 1958, under the title "Wild Elephants and a Man Eater." Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "New Guinea Tools and Weapons"

Characters Lowell Thomas (photo)
Synopsis The tools and weapons of New Guinea tribesmen
Genre fact
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page filler "The Man Eater"

Characters Lowell Thomas (cameo)
Synopsis How a tiger becomes a man-eater.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).