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Indian Chief, #3

Published: July-September 1951

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Indian Chief #3

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Featuring Indian Chief

1 page
El Tigre
Story 1 2 pages
Story Notes

Story is on inside of front and back covers and in black and white.

White Wolf Trails the Pack

Featuring White Wolf

Story 2 16 pages western-frontier
Storyline

Moon Maiden the Onondaga is proud of her Pawnee husband White Wolf being a good trapper in his adopted Iroquois tribe. White Wolf kills a buck, fights off a wolf pack. Meanwhile, Abenaki raiders steal his pelts, and make off with Moon Maiden. Moon Maiden believes in her husband. White Wolf tracks the pack of Abenaki and beats them with Moon Maiden's help. He declares that without a single pelt to their names they should be rich in each other.

Characters
  • White Wolf
  • Moon Maiden
  • a buck
  • a wolf pack
  • Abenaki raiding party
Credits
Story Notes

Script credit source (Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott) states: "White Wolf Trails Pack. 16p. For War Eagle, stock. Sent April 2, 1950." and "White Wolf Trails the Pack. add 2p. For The Chief, stock. Sent October 12, 1950." ~Dave Porta Previous indexed as "White Wolf Leads the Pack"; title change from Error Report #2335, by Terry Meister. Originally art credited to "John Buscema ?". The artwork is by Giolitti, and confirmed by Angelo Todaro.

The Mission

Featuring Indian Chief

Story 3 16 pages

"Come, Eagle Talon, join the Blackfoot warriors in the hunt or there will be no wedding feast for you and White Aster."

Storyline

Crow raid the Blackfoot village as the braves are away hunting game for Eagle Talon and White Aster's wedding feast. ET returns for his quiver, the tipis in flame, weapons and WA carried off. He fights, and is knocked senseless, left for dead, rises. Crow attack him at night. He fights again, escapes, fights hunger, finds the Crow village, recovers the stolen weapons, fights again, fights the rapids, makes the quarry, fights the Crow there, make the deadline, with his tribe attacks the Crow, fighting again. Peace is made. He and WA are busy cooing.

Characters
  • Red Hawk (Blackfoot Chieftain)
  • Eagle Talon (Blackfoot warrior, White Aster's groom)
  • White Aster (Blackfoot squaw, Eagle Talon's bride)
  • four Blackfoot hunters (pictured)
  • six Crow raiders (pictured, dialogue)
  • assorted Assiniboins (pictured)
  • Assiniboin chief (dialogue)
  • [Atius] Tirawa (invoked)
  • two Crow scouts (pictured, described)
  • two Crow assailants
  • rabbit
  • assorted Crow villagers
  • three Crow warriors at the quarry
  • the shaman of the sacred quarry
  • the Great Spirit (attributed)
  • lightning bolt
  • oak tree
  • Blackfoot tribesmen
  • Blackfoot potter
  • cowardly Crow tribesmen
  • Crow Chief
Credits
Story Notes

Du Bois writer i.d. by David Porta, October 2021. Written as a fourteen page synopsis "Fox Brother Fights Again," it had been editorially altered. It is now sixteen pages (this can be accomplished by cutting the panel counts per page; for example, one page has only 4 panels, four others only 5 each), and, while the protagonist does fight again many times in the story, his name has been changed to Eagle Talon. The title has also been changed, to "The Mission" (a mission for which Eagle Talon volunteers, and which involves his fighting many obstacles). Du Bois identifiers mark it clearly as his, and the contents of the story tally with both the title as originally written, and the themes and contents of the other Du Bois Indian Chief episodes (the series having been created by him under the aegis of his friend and editor Oskar Lebeck, and stories for the first four or five issues, and stock, having been written by Du Bois, most of which were included in the first four issues, after which Lebeck departed Western).

Indian Method of Breaking a Pony
Story 4 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

reproduction of painting. Back Cover.