Davy Crockett (1954 Charlton) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Aug 1955 by Charlton Comics Group.Cover by Mike Roy and Mike Peppe. Stories and art by Mike Roy, Mike Peppe, Charles Nicholas, and Vince Alascia. Cashing in on the 1950s Davy Crockett craze that followed Disney's popular TV series, Charlton presents its own adventures of the legendary frontiersman. Davy must help Andrew Jackson's troops when they are surrounded by Creek warriors. 14-year-old Davy encounters a nomadic tribe at Gideons Creek. Plus a comics biography of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. Indian Attack; The Fight on Gideons Creek; Red Roan: Lobo Terror; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Paper Picker; Davy Crockett Casts His Vote; The Story of Johnny Appleseed. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #2
Published Oct 1955 by Charlton Comics Group.$12.25
Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Stan Campbell, Mario DeMarco and Vince Alascia. Cashing in on the 1950s Davy Crockett craze that followed Disney's popular TV series, Charlton presents its own adventures of the legendary frontiersman. Davy intercepts a message that the Red Stick tribe is preparing for war against white settlers. When Davy learns of a Pennsylvania riflemaker who makes an exceptional weapon, he sets out for the Keystone State. Mountain man Ben Norton (who looks like Davy Crockett, but brunette instead of blond) helps the Delaware tribe find food, but a hungry grizzly is nearby. War with the Redsticks; The Pennsylvania Rifle; Powder Horn; General Custer/Sitting Bull; Ben Norton, Trail Blazer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #4
Published Dec 1955 by Charlton Comics Group.$9.20
$9.20
Stories and art by Mario DeMarco, Bill Molno and Vince Alascia. Cashing in on the 1950s Davy Crockett craze that followed Disney's popular TV series, Charlton presents its own adventures of the legendary frontiersman. Davy makes a dangerous gamble with a crate of gunpowder to save himself and Jed from Blue Hawk and his warriors. "Just one of the true legends" about Davy is how he saved a cougar cub from a bear and raised him as a pet, "Ol' Clawfoot." Caleb from Back East takes over for an injured sheriff, but Moose Elkins and his gang don't think they have anything to fear from a dandified city boy. Plus a comics biography of frontiersman Kit Carson. Good Gunpowder; Forest Runners; Overtime Sheriff; Ol Clawfoot; Echo Canyon!; The Tenderfoot Marshal; Kit Carson: Pioneer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #5
Published 1956 by Charlton Comics Group.$10.50
Cover art by Maurice Whitman. Captive, pencils by Dick Giordano, inks by Maurice Whitman; Davy is taken captive by a tribe of Indians being led by a white renegade. The Thirteenth Target, pencils by Stan Campbell, inks by Vince Alascia; Davy enters a shooting contest and discovers that it has been rigged. Tale of a Giant, pencils by Stan Campbell, inks by Vince Alascia; When Davy is captured by a band of Pawnee Indians, he buys time by teling a tall tale about a grizzly. Apache; An army scout goes searching for his brother after hearing his brother's troop was attacked by Apaches. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
