Publishers / Dell / Gentle Ben (1968) / #5
5October 1969
$0.15

Gentle Ben #5

Dell · October 1969 · on sale 1969

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Series
Gentle Ben (Dell, 1968 series)
Issue
#5
Publication date
October 1969
Key date
1969-10-00
On-sale date
1969
Indicia publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price
$0.15
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Gentle Bencover1pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); colors: ? (photo); letters: typesetGentle Ben (a bear); Clint Howard (as Mark Wedloe)
2Lost!comic story13script: D. J. Arneson; pencils: Henry Scarpelli; inks: Henry ScarpelliGentle Ben (a bear); Mark Wedloe; Mark's father "Game Warden Wedloe"
3The Feather Thiefcomic story12script: D. J. Arneson; pencils: Henry Scarpelli; inks: Henry ScarpelliGentle Ben (a bear); Mark Wedloe; Mark's father "Game Warden Wedloe"
4Crash Landingcomic story7script: D. J. Arneson; pencils: Henry Scarpelli; inks: Henry ScarpelliGentle Ben (a bear); Mark Wedloe: Mark's father "Game Warden Wedloe" (cameo)

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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