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Issue Details

Issue #816
Published July 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BRAVE EAGLE, No. 816." Code number is B.E.O.S. #816-577. Copyright 1957 by Roy Rogers--Frontiers, Inc. Based on the 1955-56 CBS TV series "Brave Eagle." Third of five Brave Eagle Four Color issues.

Cover Details - "Search for the Sun"

Characters Brave Eagle (as played by Keith Larsen, photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "Apology for Warpaint"

Characters Lt. John C. Fremont
Synopsis Retelling of an incident in 1843 in which Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors attacked a group of troops, then abruptly called off the attack when they realized that the troops weren't tribal enemies.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Craftint shading. Panels with typeset text underneath.

20 page Brave Eagle story "Search for the Sun"

Characters Brave Eagle; Smokey; Keena; Morning Star, White Cloud (horse)
Synopsis Keena, Brave Eagle's adopted son, overhears him talking to a brave whose son had joined a group of renegades to steal gold in exchange for rifles. Brave Eagle has left the brave's son at the fort to pay for his crimes. Keena thinks Brave Eagle should not have left the youth and decides to return to the Lotas, his original tribe. There Keena finds the white gun traders have set up camp to await the return of the council to determine if the tribe will trade its gold for guns.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle

12 page Brave Eagle story "The Iron Trail"

Characters Brave Eagle; Smokey; Keena; White Cloud (horse)
Synopsis The crew boss of workers laying railroad tracks through Cheyenne territory hatches a scheme to steal the payroll and make it look like it was the work of the Cheyenne.
Genre western
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Speigle
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

1 page filler "Choosing of the Chief"

Synopsis Method of choosing a new chief of the Cheyenne Indians.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; craftint shading. Panels with typeset text underneath.

1 page filler "Pride of the Bow"

Synopsis Facts about the arrows used by the Cheyenne Indians.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Craftint shading with monochrome color for each panel. Panels with text underneath.