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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published February 1968
Frequency Quarterly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Notes Based on TV series created by Ivan Tors, which aired on CBS from September 10, 1967, to August 31, 1969. Cover code is 12-289-802. Entire issue, except for ads, is reprinted in Gentle Ben #5.

Cover Details

Characters Gentle Ben (a bear); Clint Howard (as Mark Wedloe)
Genre children; animal
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
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Reprinted in Gentle Ben (Dell, 1968 series) #5; in Berenstreken (Vanderhout, 1968 series) #[gn].

1 page advertisement "Here's a Whole Treasure Chest of Fun"

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Notes Inside front cover; black and white; Illustrated ad for various novelties (x-ray specs, exhaust whistle, joy buzzer, etc.) from Honor House Prod. Corp., Lynbrook, N.Y.

13 page Gentle Ben story "Lost!"

Characters Gentle Ben (a bear); Mark Wedloe; Mark's father "Game Warden Wedloe"
Synopsis A young boy wanders away after an automobile accident in the Florida Everglades.
Genre animals; children; adventure
Pencils Henry Scarpelli (signed)
Inks Henry Scarpelli (signed)
Reprinted in Gentle Ben (Dell, 1968 series) #5; in Berenstreken (Vanderhout, 1968 series) #[gn].

12 page Gentle Ben story "The Feather Thief"

Characters Gentle Ben (a bear); Mark Wedloe; Mark's father "Game Warden Wedloe"
Synopsis Orin Carr is poaching egret feathers in the Everglades.
Genre animal; children; adventure
Pencils Henry Scarpelli
Notes Pencils formerly credited to Jose Delbo.
Reprinted in Gentle Ben (Dell, 1968 series) #5; in Berenstreken (Vanderhout, 1968 series) #[gn].

7 page Gentle Ben story "Crash Landing"

Characters Gentle Ben (a bear); Mark Wedloe; Mark's father "Game Warden Wedloe" (cameo)
Synopsis Gentle Ben and Mark help a man and a girl after a private plane crash in the Everglades.
Genre animal; children; adventure
Pencils Henry Scarpelli
Notes Pencils formerly credited to Jose Delbo.
Reprinted in Gentle Ben (Dell, 1968 series) #5; in Berenstreken (Vanderhout, 1968 series) #[gn].

1 page advertisement "All These Dramatic Man-In-Space Stamps"

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Notes Inside back cover; black and white; Ad for 216 different "Man-In-Space" postage stamps for 25 cents, with reproductions of stamps. From Zenith Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.

1 page advertisement "204 Revolutionary War Soldiers"

Genre war
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Notes Back cover; color; Illustrated ad for a 204 piece set of plastic Revolutionary War Soldiers for $1.98 from an address in Westbury, N. Y.