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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published October-December 1952
Frequency Quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing George T. Delacorte, Jr. (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Notes Designed, produced, and copyright 1952, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

Cover Details

Genre Western
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4, August 2002.

2 page text story "Split Pine"

Characters Laughing Fox; Small One
Synopsis After his canoe is destroyed by an unseen rock, Laughing Fox and his woman must find material to build a new one.
Genre Western
Script George Haas
Letters typeset
Notes This story is printed on the inside front and back cover.

16 page Indian Chief story "Bear Medicine"

Characters Chief Spotted Fox; Crooked Knife; Willow Fern (all Sioux)
Synopsis Crippled warrior Crooked Knife seeks ways to be a warrior again so he might wed Willow Fern. After a cliff fall pushes his broken leg bone back into place, he travels to the Blackfoot camp to rescue his fellow warriors.
Genre Western

16 page Indian Chief story "A Chief is Made"

Characters Chief Black Otter; Strong Pine; Seal Tooth; Raven Eye (all of the Nootka tribe of fishermen); Chief Whale Fin; Gray Porpoise (Kwakiutl)
Synopsis Strong Pine loves Raven Eye, but a Chief's daughter may only marry a Chief's son, such as Gray Porpoise, the son of Chief Whale Fin.
Genre Western

1 page illustration "Skunk Family"

Synopsis Photograph of a skunk family with commentary.
Genre Fact
Letters typeset
Notes Photograph courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.