Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 290

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Indicia title is "THE CHIEF, No. 290." Cover art by Morris Gollub. Buffalo Caller, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Morris Gollub; While his three comrades eat breakfast, Running Wolf, a Pawnee, nephew of Chief War Eagle, finds a buffalo herd that could feed the tribe for a year; Three Cheyenne enemy hunters appear, rivals for the herd, and liable to scalp him; Running Wolf's bow-string breaks; He flees, diving in the river, hiding underwater against a rock in the rapids; The Cheyenne believe him dead. Running Wolf runs home; he alerts War Eagle of the herd and the Cheyenne; Running Wolf's friends return. Illustrations of war clubs, tomahawks, and lacrosse sticks by Morris Gollub. The Towers of Death, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jon Small; Spring rain has come. At the shrine with the others, War Eagle, keeper of the sacred bundle, opens it; He prays to "Tirawa, Mighty Sky Father," for blessing of "corn and children," and gives thanks for the rain; in the spring, they go to the Southwest. Apache Grass Hogan fact two-pager, art by Morris Gollub. Blunt Arrow Boy, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Morris Gollub. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.