Red Eagle Feature Book (1938) 16
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Published Aug 1938 by David McKay Publishing.
Red Eagle Feature Book (1938) 16 PR 0.5
INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, interrupts art and story. Full length spine split.
Starts Mar 16 Stories, art and cover by Jimmy Thompson. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay's Feature Book was the first US comic book to devote complete issues to a single character. This issue presents a heroic Native American character, Red Eagle, along with features on Native culture as it was understood in 1938. The comic doubled as a coloring book, and the center spread features two pages of text-free art, originally intended as part of a mail-in coloring contest. Red Eagle; How the False-Faces Began; How to Make Indian Beadwork; How to Make An Indian Bow. 9-in. x 12-in., 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

