Four Color comic books issue 239
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$4.60
Indicia title is "ADVENTURE BOUND, No. 239." Cover art by Bill Ely. Adventure Bound, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Bill Ely; Boston, 1723. Paul Clark runs away to sea aboard The Boston Belle; Unbeknownst to him, his 8-year old brother, Nat, has followed, and stows away; Maria is a passenger; Her late mother was English. She travels to join her father, the governor of Trinidad Island; She befriends Nat and Paul; Paul is wounded defending her from the Pirate captain, Redbeard, who loots the ship, and takes them hostage; Paul walks the plank, but Maria and Nat throw him a rope, and pull him back aboard through their cabin window; Nat dances for Redbeard, and, as reward, Paul is allowed to join the crew; Fleeing a battle with a British Man o' War, the pirate ship beaches in the cove of a small island. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.


